Interim Staff: Former one-term MP John Oostrom died on March 4 at the age of 92. The pro-life MP had a short political career, but one in which he clearly stood up for his pro-life beliefs. Oostrom, was born in the Netherlands, the eldest of 13 children. As an adult, he moved to Canada with his parents and 12 siblings in 1952. [...]
Angelica Vecchiato: Denver Coleman was born without complications at 4.2 pounds following never-before-attempted brain surgery. The successful surgery comes as a big win for pro-lifers trying to prove the personhood of the unborn child. Campaign Life Coalition director of advocacy and education Josie Luetke is enthusiastic about what the new cutting-edge abilities of preborn healthcare technology logically means for pro-life arguments. She [...]
Mary Zwicker While societal conversations on abortion continue to revolve primarily around women, celebrating the murder of the preborn as a “women’s right,” a new study has revealed the extent to which men, the oft-forgotten victims of abortion, are impacted by the trauma of abortion. In April, the Florida-based pro-life organization, Support After Abortion (SAA), released a white paper summarizing the findings [...]
Paul Tuns: According to a study published in the medical journal Cureus, one in four American women who have had an abortion described having one as coerced, and most others describe their abortion as unwanted. The study by Dr. David Reardon, an associate scholar at the Charlotte Lozier Institute and director of the Elliott Institute, and Tessa Longbons, Charlotte Lozier’s senior research [...]
Mary Zwicker: Between July 2021 and June 2022, the year before the Dobbs decision overturned Roe v. Wade, the United States saw the second-highest number of abortions carried out by Planned Parenthood in its history, new data indicates, despite the total number of abortions in the United States trending downward since the 1990s. Under the theme of “Relentless,” the Planned Parenthood Federation [...]
Paul Tuns Two NDP members of provincial parliament in British Columbia and Ontario have introduced private member's bills in support of drag shows for children. In Ontario, NDP MPP Kristyn Wong-Tam tabled Bill 94, the Keeping 2SLGBTQI+ Communities Safe Act, 2023, which, if passed, would allow the Attorney General to temporarily designate addresses where drag shows are taking place as "community safety [...]
John Carpay: The more that people possess virtues like humility, wisdom, courage, and self-control, the less that people need regulations and laws to govern their conduct. In a society where most citizens possess a high degree of virtue, people have the capacity to cooperate with each other to achieve social, economic, financial, and community goals. Virtuous people don’t need thousands of laws [...]
Rory Leishman: In a startling headline on Jan. 24, Scotland’s largest newspaper, the Daily Record, exclaimed: “Transgender Scot found guilty of raping two women when she was a man.” When she was a man? Really? Robert “Robbie” Burns, revered by Scots as the world’s greatest poet, insisted, “A man’s a man for a that and a that.” Of course, that is no [...]
Poland’s family centered values The European Union constantly pushes EU countries into passing laws which devalue the family, increase abortions, and remove parental guidance by parents. Poland, like Hungary, is repeatedly attacked for its family affirming policies. Recently, Poland launched Education for Family Life, a required course in the standard curriculum of primary education. The objectives of the course are to teach [...]
Donald DeMarco: The word “potential” is mesmerizing. It conjures up a dreamland in which one can become anything he wants to be. It has not yet crossed into the realm of the actual where it loses its unsullied attractiveness. A young woman yearns for the perfect mate. She can maintain this yearning as long as it remains in dreamland. When she marries, [...]
Oswald Clark: In the six months following the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Clinic decision in June 2022, which overturned the infamous 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling, there were 32,260 fewer abortions than expected according to a study released by the pro-abortion Society of Family Planning (SFP). According to the #WeCount Report, States that banned or restricted abortion saw a net decline [...]
Interim Staff: Justin Trudeau’s federal government tabled its budget on March 28 and among the items announced by Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland is $36 million in new funding to promote abortion in Canada, in addition to the hundreds of millions of dollars already spent by provincial healthcare systems to commit at least 87,000 abortions annually and $700 million annually to commit and [...]
Heterosexual students happier, healthier than LGBQ+ students The U.S. Centres for Disease Control has completed and released its annual Youth Risk Behavior Survey. High school students were grouped into heterosexual and LGBQ+ categories. (Subsequent assessments will include transgender students.) Here are a few of the disturbing results. Among heterosexual students, 22 per cent experienced poor mental health, in contrast to 52 per [...]
Presbyterians rarity among mainline Protestant churches to oppose euthanasia James Schadenberg, Special to The Interim: Euthanasia Prevention Coalition has written about situations where Canadian churches are promoting euthanasia (MAiD) such as when Churchill Park United Church in Winnipeg Man., hosted the euthanasia death of an 86-year-old woman in March 2022. Recently, EPC sponsored a petition against a pro-euthanasia prayer promoted by the United [...]
Donald DeMarco: Arthur Rubinstein begins his lengthy autobiography by paying tribute to his aunt Salomea Meyer. Mrs. Rubinstein had given birth to six children. It would be eight years before she would conceive her seventh. Given her situation, it may be understandable that she was reluctant to give birth to a seventh child. The distinguished pianist writes: “I was utterly unwanted by [...]