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Pro-life developments in the U.S.

Written on 29 Mar, 2005 at 12:22 in Abortion, Abortion Law, Pro-Life | Author:

•President George W. Bush announced plans to enact stricter limits on embryonic research. •Congress will likely consider the Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act later this year. If it is passed, the bill would ensure that parents have a right to know their teenage daughters are considering an abortion and make ... (Continue reading)

Judge rules embryo is a human being

Written on 29 Mar, 2005 at 12:10 in Abortion Law, Fetal Rights, Pro-Life | Author: Hilary White

Hilary White Special to The Interim The in-vitro fertilization industry is worried that a Chicago court decision, in which an embryo was ruled to be a human being, could put an end to IVF and abortion. On Friday, Feb. 4, Cook County Judge Jeffrey Lawrence ruled that a couple’s wrongful death ... (Continue reading)

Bits ‘n’ Pieces

Written on 29 Jan, 2005 at 8:25 in Abortion, Abortion Law, Bits n' Pieces, Pro-Life | Author:

Montana lawmaker Roger Koopman is sponsoring a bill that would provide death certificates for aborted babies. He said it as "a small way for our society to acknowledge that a life did exist, even if they didn't get to see a sunrise or blow out a birthday candle." The Billings Gazette reports that pro-abortion critics are calling the measure "mean-spirited" … The U.S. Justice Department has begun an appeal against a ruling ... (Continue reading)

Legal abortion to increase third world maternal mortality

Written on 29 Jan, 2005 at 8:07 in Abortion, Abortion Law, Post-abortion and Health Care | Author: John-Henry Westen

John-Henry Westen Special to The Interim The population control arm of the United Nations, UNFPA, and its abortion-pushing allies, most notably International Planned Parenthood, relentlessly press for legalizing abortion with the claim that it is needed to reduce maternal mortality by reducing "unsafe" abortions, particularly in the Developing World. However, Jeanne Head, R.N., the chief pro-life lobbyist at the United Nations, and herself a former labor and delivery nurse says the reality ... (Continue reading)

The Interim’s top stories of 2004

Written on 29 Jan, 2005 at 7:43 in Abortion, Abortion Law, Activism, Bioethics, Issues, Marriage and Family, Politics | Author:

Canada 1. Bill C-6 passes The government's reproductive and experimental technologies bill will lead to the deaths of untold millions of tiny human beings through destructive embryonic stem cell research and opens to the door to human cloning through poor definitions and loop-holes. 2. Social conservatism and the Canadian election Prime Minister Paul Martin and his media accomplices inject the topic of abortion into the federal election, although everyone carefully avoids discussing ... (Continue reading)

Health reform could lead to defunding

Written on 23 Mar, 2002 at 12:51 in Abortion Law, Politics | Author: Tim Bloedow

One of the most important aspects of federal political activity being watched by pro lifers is Roy Romanow's health care commission. Romanow has presented his interim report and announced the beginning of cross-country public consultations. This commission, launched to address the growing crisis in health care, is an excellent opportunity to raise the abortion funding issue. Provincial governments are de-listing previously funded medical services (e.g. hearing tests) because they ... (Continue reading)

Doctor not liable, Supreme Court rules in wrongful birth type case

Written on 23 Mar, 2002 at 8:44 in Abortion Law | Author:

LifeSite NewsThe Canadian Supreme Court has, for the first time, ruled on a case involving "wrongful birth." The nine justices have ruled unanimously that the adult care of a child born with Down syndrome need not be covered by a doctor who failed to encourage the woman to undergo pre-natal testing which may have identified the disorder. Pam and Murray Krangle of Maple Ridge B.C. were demanding that ... (Continue reading)

French gov’t rejects ‘right not to be born’

Written on 22 Feb, 2002 at 9:48 in Abortion Law | Author:

LifeSite News The French Parliament passed a government bill aimed at reversing a Supreme Court decision which has been slammed for creating a "right not to be born." The decision will not however change very much in the way of doctors' fears of being sued by parents whose children are born disabled. In early Dec., France's highest appeals court ruled that children born with disabilities could sue doctors for not ... (Continue reading)

B.C. Liberals follow NDP lead in repression of abortion stats

Written on 22 Feb, 2002 at 9:23 in Abortion Law, Abortion statistics | Author: Laureen McMahon

B.C. pro-life activist Ted Gerk is slamming the recently elected Liberal government for following the lead of the New Democrats in refusing to make abortion statistics publicly available. In November, when Gerk made a request for the latest numbers of abortions being done in the Okanagan-Similkameen Health Region and, specifically, Kelowna General Hospital, his request was denied. Now it is apparent, he says, that the ... (Continue reading)

Breitkreuz’s motion allows debate on status of unborn

Written on 20 Nov, 2001 at 13:58 in Abortion Law | Author: Lloyd Mackey

I am grateful to Timothy Bloedow for providing me with word that Canadian Alliance MP Garry Breitkreuz's (Yorkton- Melville) new motion on redefining "human being" is different from his previous one, which was debated last March 22,. The motion, M-228 debated on March 22 said "that in the opinion of this House, the government should bring in legislation defining a 'human being' as a human fetus or embryo from the ... (Continue reading)

Feds pressure N.B.: pay for private abortion or face fines

Written on 20 Sep, 2001 at 7:53 in Abortion Law | Author:

A Moncton newspaper has determined that the federal government has threatened fines against New Brunswick if the province continues its principled refusal to pay for abortions at Henry Morgentaler's private abortuary in Fredericton. Canadian Press reported on August 7 that Federal Health Minister Allan Rock had threatened to fine the province, a fact revealed after the Moncton Times and Transcript obtained documents under the Access ... (Continue reading)

Turner chairs Cardinal’s dinner

Written on 20 Sep, 2001 at 7:47 in Abortion Law, Paul Tuns | Author: Paul Tuns

The author of legislation that legalized abortion in Canada will be the chair of the annual Toronto Cardinal's Dinner on Oct. 18. Former Prime Minister John Turner, as Pierre Trudeau's Justice Minister, wrote and guided through the House of Commons the Omnibus Bill that led to the legalization of abortion and homosexuality in 1969. Catholic pro-lifers are scandalized that for the second time this year, a Catholic organization is using ... (Continue reading)

The Omnibus Bill: C-150

Written on 16 Apr, 2001 at 9:34 in Abortion Law | Author: Tim Bloedow

CLC report revisits the 1969 legalization of abortion in Canada With each federal election, the number of parliamentarians in the House of Commons who personally remember the introduction of the 1969 Omnibus Bill (C-150) that legalized abortion, dwindles. Recognizing this trend, Campaign Life Coalition national affairs director Karen Murawsky recently decided it was past time to produce a new report explaining how the Omnibus Bill reforms were instituted. Additional pressure to further ... (Continue reading)

Klein squashes abortion defunding effort

Written on 21 Jan, 2001 at 12:59 in Abortion Law | Author:

Alberta Tory Premier Ralph Klein has closed the door to re-examining public funding of abortion. The Edmonton Journal reported that Alberta's standing policy committee on health was looking at deinsuring various procedures in order to save health care dollars for more serious health concerns and that several MLAs were hoping to have abortion funding on the table for discussion. A provincial pro-life group had began an information campaign to persuade ... (Continue reading)

New Toronto abortion site calls into question Harris’s promises

Written on 21 Jan, 2001 at 12:49 in Abortion Law | Author: Tony Gosgnach

How good is a politician's word? Not very, if the results of promises made by outgoing Ontario Premier Mike Harris are any indication. Although he certainly did not characterize himself as pro-life, Harris did toss a small crumb to appease Ontario's pro-life movement during his 1995 campaign to become premier. He pledged "no new abortion clinics," according to a front-page headline in the June 2, 1995 Toronto Star. He ... (Continue reading)

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