Articles from August, 2011
Written on 25 Aug, 2011 at 10:27 in
Profiles, Society & Culture | Author:
Interim Staff Since October 1998, Michael Coren has hosted a television show on CTS, the Christian broadcaster based in Burlington. Now, 3022 shows later, the popular print journalist and radio and television host is joining the upstart all-news channel Sun News.
Coren’s CTS peak viewership exceeded 100,000 – and CTS is only carried in Ontario and Alberta – plus internet viewers. Shows such as a debate on evolution have garnered more than a half ... (Continue reading)
Written on 25 Aug, 2011 at 10:19 in
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Paul Tuns Retired dentist and long-time pro-life activist Ray Holmes used to say that “you haven’t done enough until you can’t do any more.” Campaign Life Coalition national president Jim Hughes said that Holmes lived that credo until the day he died at the age of 93.
Hughes said Holmes was a family man who was married to Rita for 67 years. She passed away in 2010. They had three sons, Jim, David, and Bill, ... (Continue reading)
Written on 25 Aug, 2011 at 10:13 in
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Paul Tuns John J.H. Connors – “The Major” – who died on May 6 answered the prayers of a group of Ottawa pro-lifers when he came into their offices in the 1980s asking how he could help.
Karen Murawsky, a long-time Ottawa pro-life activist and former head of Campaign Life Coalition’s public affairs office in the nation’s capital, told The Interim, that the Western Conference of the Grey Nuns wanted to help Alliance for Life ... (Continue reading)
Written on 25 Aug, 2011 at 9:59 in
Announcements, Features, Rick McGinnis | Author:
Rick McGinnis For any halfway sensible TV viewer, “reality TV” is usually mentioned with a broad verbal wink, since the inference suggested by its very name is a kind of semantic gag that is presumed to tie viewers and the people who make it together in an agreed complicity. Simply put, the stuff is heavily staged, out of economic and dramatic necessity, and has been since the birth of the genre, which is ... (Continue reading)
Written on 23 Aug, 2011 at 9:39 in
Soconvivium | Author:
Interim Staff If you have access to Obstetrics & Gynecology, we would love to see the article, "Abortion Provision Among Practicing Obstetrician–Gynecologists" in the September issue. From the abstract we know that the authors found:
Among practicing ob-gyns, 97% encountered patients seeking abortions, whereas 14% performed them. Female physicians were more likely to provide abortions than were male (18.6% compared with 10.6%, adjusted odds ratio 2.54, 95% confidence interval 1.57–4.08), as were those in the youngest age group, those in the ... (Continue reading)
Written on 18 Aug, 2011 at 9:08 in
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Interim Staff The Interim is selling a daily planner calendar for 2012 and it is only $6 including shipping, handling and taxes. You can read all about it here. We encourage pro-life groups and churches purchase bulk orders ($5 each for orders of 50 or more). Businesses might want to order quantities as gifts for clients. Support The Interim website and this blog by purchasing the compact, convenient daily planner. (Continue reading)
Written on 16 Aug, 2011 at 14:59 in
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Paul Tuns Around here and in the popular media there has been much discussion about gendercide -- the "disappearance" of girls, mostly in Asia, due to abortion. The thing that started all this discussion is Mara Hvistendahl's book Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men. I reviewed it in the August issue and it had to be a brief service review rather than an in-depth engagement of Hvistendahl's arguments and evidence. The review concludes ... (Continue reading)
Written on 16 Aug, 2011 at 12:53 in
Euthanasia, Rory Leishman | Author:
Rory Leishman
The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition has good reason to commend the unanimous ruling by a three-judge panel of the Ontario Court of Appeal in the Rasouli case on June 29, which holds that physicians have no right in Ontario law to withdraw life support from a patient without the consent of the patient or a qualified substitute decision-maker.
Hassan Rasouli is a patient at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto, who has been in a coma ... (Continue reading)
Written on 16 Aug, 2011 at 12:50 in
Announcements, Book Review, Features | Author:
Review Paul Tuns Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men by Mara Hvistendahl (Public Affairs, $31.50, 313 pages)
A book authored by Science’s Beijing correspondent has garnered a lot of attention for pointing out that a combination of depopulation ideology, ultrasound technology, and late-term abortion has led to what Mara Hvistendahl has called “163 million missing women,” mostly in Asia where boy babies are valued over girl ... (Continue reading)
Written on 15 Aug, 2011 at 13:43 in
Soconvivium | Author:
Rick McGinnis As I write this, a petition asking that the producers of Sesame Street perform a gay marriage between Bert and Ernie, two beloved characters on the long-running children’s television show, has gotten over 9,000 signatures. It seems like a silly sideshow while civil wars rage in the Middle East, riots smoulder in London and the world economy continues to teeter and creak, but tragedy and farce are often locked in a tight orbit, egging each other on with greater ... (Continue reading)
Written on 12 Aug, 2011 at 13:32 in
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Interim Staff Here's our report from the August issue of the recent Toronto Pro-Life Forum. Brian Lilley was a fantastic speaker to kick off the weekend event and the entire lineup of Saturday speakers reinforced the very positive, life-affirming message that the pro-life movement is indeed the pro-love movement.
There are other regional pro-life conferences in the Fall in Ontario, including the eastern Ontario conference in Kingston on October 29 where Interim editor Paul Tuns is one of the speakers and a southwestern Ontario conference in London on November 5 ... (Continue reading)
Written on 11 Aug, 2011 at 14:02 in
Soconvivium | Author:
Oswald Clark and Paul Tuns Two of 12 declared, likely or possible Republican candidates for the party's presidential nomination are rated as too pro-life by NARAL Pro-Choice America although two have supported NARAL-backed pro-choice measures in the past (former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani and former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty). Pawlenty is very certainly pro-life who signed a few bills he shouldn't have because the bill was overall very good but included problematic elements. Giuliani has been clearly unclear or unclearly clear that he opposes abortion ... (Continue reading)
Written on 11 Aug, 2011 at 13:06 in
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Paul Tuns New tests will reveal a baby's sex at seven weeks. Ostensibly, this information can be used by parents "at risk" of passing on sex-based diseases, although even in most of those cases, the result will not be treatment of the disease but the elimination of the baby. Andrea Mrozek says this will used for target and eliminate girls babies. Indeed, everyone knows that it will be used to eliminate unborn baby girls, who are the overwhelming majority of sex-selection victims. The ... (Continue reading)
Written on 11 Aug, 2011 at 12:38 in
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Paul Tuns One of the Abortioneers raises an interesting point that is highlighted by Jiving J at Jill Stanek:
I’ve never had an abortion. I’ve never even had a pregnancy scare, though that’s probably more because of the lack of opportunity than anything else. Sometimes I start to think that I could have just a teeny bit more Abortioneer cred if I had had an abortion, even though I don’t really believe that there is a hierarchy of pro-choicedness.
I've ... (Continue reading)
Written on 11 Aug, 2011 at 10:14 in
Euthanasia | Author:
Alex Schadenberg On June 29, the Ontario Court of Appeal unanimously upheld a lower court decision requiring doctors to obtain consent from substitute decision-makers before withdrawing life-support, where such a decision is anticipated to result in the death of the patient. The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition applauded the unanimous decision.
The Court of Appeal ruled that it is necessary for doctors to raise any objections or concerns they may have about consent before the Ontario Consent ... (Continue reading)
