Articles from January, 2009
Written on 31 Jan, 2009 at 9:24 in
Bits n' Pieces, Issues, News Bits | Author:
Canada
Rod Bruinooge (C, Winnipeg South) is the new chair of the multi-party Parliamentary Pro-life Caucus, replacing Maurice Vellacott (C, Saskatoon-Wanuskewin). Bruinooge said in a press release, "I am honored to chair a caucus that doesn't shy away from this vital issue." He said that pro-life Canadians' "concerns need to be represented" ... Brian Finnemore, a retired B.C. physician and a member of the Right to Die Society of Canada, told the CBC that Canada should follow Washington ... (Continue reading)
Written on 17 Jan, 2009 at 20:03 in
Features | Author:
Paul Tuns
Editor A look back at many of the important moments for the pro-life and pro-family community in 2008. (Continue reading)
Written on 17 Jan, 2009 at 20:02 in
Announcements, Issues | Author:
Paul Tuns
Editor On Dec. 8, the Catholic Oblate Fathers of Assumption Province wrote to Governor-General Michaelle Jean to express their outrage over the July 1 awarding of the Order of Canada, the country?s highest civilian honour, to abortionist Henry Morgentaler and to notify her that they were returned the OC award two of their members had previously received.
In a letter signed by Fr. Janusz Blazejak, the provincial superior of the order, they said: ?We write to you today, Dec. 8, the Feast ... (Continue reading)
Written on 17 Jan, 2009 at 20:01 in
Abortion, Issues, Society & Culture | Author:
Samantha Singson
Special to The Interim The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) has just released its annual performance report for 2007-2008 and boasts of pushing its abortion agenda among its member associations in traditionally pro-life countries throughout Africa, Latin America and the Islamic world.
The IPPF asserts that "access to safe legal abortion is a public health and human rights imperative" and that the organization's goal is to achieve "a universal recognition of a woman's 'right to choose' and have access to safe abortion and a reduction ... (Continue reading)
Written on 17 Jan, 2009 at 20:00 in
Issues | Author:
Interim Staff With the potential reinterpretation of the Universal Human Rights Declaration to be extended to abortion at the UN, international pro-lifers need to be on their toes. (Continue reading)
Written on 17 Jan, 2009 at 19:59 in
Abortion, Issues, Society & Culture | Author:
Commentary Donald DeMarco Last Summer (July 19), the Toronto Globe and Mail featured a sociological look into women who had abortions. Titled, "The hidden abortion issue," it explored why, though abortion has been unrestricted in Canada for two decades, so few women who have undergone abortions ever talk about it, even with close friends. Journalist Cate Cochran did not provide any answers to the question she posed and seemed slightly perplexed that in "liberal" Canadian society, there remains a "stigma around the procedure ... (Continue reading)
Written on 17 Jan, 2009 at 19:57 in
Politics | Author:
Paul Tuns Harper safe for now, Liberals get new pro-abortion leaders (Continue reading)
Written on 17 Jan, 2009 at 19:55 in
Abortion, Youth Activism | Author:
Paul Tuns Despite threats, University of Calgary pro-life students still held their Genocide Awareness Project display. (Continue reading)
Written on 11 Jan, 2009 at 16:02 in
Human Rights Commissions, Politics | Author:
Kathy Shaidle takes a look at Ezra Levant, a man who has valiantly fought for a proper understanding of human rights over the last year. (Continue reading)
Written on 9 Jan, 2009 at 12:11 in
Bioethics, Issues, Marriage and Family | Author:
Editor's Note: The Interim is publishing excerpts from Dignitatis Personae: On Certain Bioethical Questions, the Vatican's new instruction on bioethics. The instruction, released Dec. 12 by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, is considered the most significant document treating biomedical issues in over 20 years, updating Donum Vitae, addressing the scientific advances of the past two decades. The excerpts we are publishing relate to the issue of in-vitro fertilization and the status of frozen embryos, but Dignitatis Personae ... (Continue reading)
Written on 9 Jan, 2009 at 11:18 in
Columnist, Marriage and Family, Michael Coren | Author:
Michael Coren
Let me tell you, as they say, a little story. An 11-year-old boy is abused by another child. The abuser is habitually foul-mouthed, using the most obscene of words as a matter of course, sometimes in front of his father. He sometimes becomes horribly angry, screaming four-letter words at other children and shoving them.
He tells his friends that he smokes every night, tells them how cool it ... (Continue reading)
