Abortion
Written on 28 Dec, 2000 at 10:52 in
Abortion, Abortion Law, Politics | Author:
Paul Tuns
Commentary Paul Tuns
The Interim
Abortion was thrust upon the national stage during the federal election campaign after party leaders and the media lambasted Canadian Alliance leader Stockwell Day's pro-life position and the party's pro-referendum policy.
Campaign Life Coalition national president Jim Hughes told The Interim, "Abortion has always been discussed at the door but is usually stifled at the upper levels," during an election campaign. He said he was happy the topic of abortion was prominent but would have preferred the debate to ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Nov, 2000 at 10:43 in
Abortion, Abortion Law, Columnist | Author:
Ted Gerk
Western View Somewhere in Winnipeg is a little-known institution that is oh-so-Canadian. Its a typical bureaucratic monstrosity, depending largely on secrecy in order to operate and extend its tentacles into the business of Canadians.
I am, of course, speaking of Advertising Standards Canada. Set-up to monitor truth in advertising, the top-secret group even tries to tackle moral issues, or should I say, when the truth of what they are looking at doesn't fit their political views, they will find another way to make ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Nov, 2000 at 9:21 in
Abortion, Activism, Crisis pregnancy centres, Pro-Life, Profiles | Author:
Grace Petrasek
By Grace Petrasek
The Interim
Recently, Robert Hinchey, co-counsellor with Joanne Dieleman at Toronto's Aid to Women, was chatting with a couple headed for the abortuary located next door. As they spoke, an abortuary employee darted from within and screamed, "Don't listen to him. He's crazy. They're all crazy up there. He's crazy. Don't listen to him."
Later, while reflecting on this incident, Robert says that most women rushing into ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Nov, 2000 at 9:18 in
Abortion, Fetal Rights, Pro-Life | Author:
Donald DeMarco
By Donald DeMarco
The Interim
In 1974, a fish processing plant employee by the name of Eleanor Donoghy was formally charged with "cruel treatment to prawns" ("Prawn-Frying Fracas Boils Over Into Court,"Midnight, March 18, 1974). Plant workers reported the 16-year-old British girl to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, which took her to court. During the trial, government agricultural experts testified that prawns - shrimp-like creatures - have low sensitivity and are almost incapable of feeling ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Nov, 2000 at 9:11 in
Abortion, Bioethics, Fetal Rights, Pro-Life | Author:
Paul Tuns
A Canadian moral theologian criticizes the use of new productive technologies when they leads to the objectification of people.
Bridget Campion, assistant professor of moral theology at St. Augustine's Seminary in Toronto, told The Interim that recent uses of in vitro fertilization (IVF) have created a whole new moral problem that goes beyond how human life is created to the uses to which it is put.
On Oct. 2, newspapers around the world announced that doctors at Chicago's Reproductive Genetics Institute were ... (Continue reading)
Written on 3 Nov, 2000 at 14:02 in
Abortion, Politics, Pro-Life | Author:
Jean Chretien - Liberal
Mr. Chretien "in his main address to the Liberal Party convention on March 17, told 2,600 delegates that 'Canadians do not want a right-wing party in this country. They do not want a party that does not support women's right to choose.'" (LifeSite News, July 11, 2000)... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Oct, 2000 at 8:31 in
Abortion, Columnist, Society & Culture | Author:
Ted Gerk
Western View
Past columns of mine have dwelt on the top-secret meeting that then-British Columbia Attorney-General Ujjal Dosanjh held with representatives of B.C.'s abortion industry, including Joyce Arthur of the Pro-Choice Action Network.
I'm told that various folks are working themselves into a tizzy regarding my exposure of this meeting. Indeed, I received an ever-so-rare e-mail message from Arthur herself, "warning" me to "cease and desist" and that the Vancouver ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Oct, 2000 at 8:09 in
Abortion, Abortion Law, Pro-Life | Author:
Bill Whatcott By Bill Whatcott
The Interim
Mexican pro-lifers have had quite a fight on their hands these days. The PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party) has recently lost a national election, and after 70 years of power, patronage and corruption, they have to hand over power to the relatively conservative PAN (National Action Party).
While the PAN leader Vicente Fox looks promising, Mexican pro-lifers are taking a wait-and-see attitude, before passing judgment on his actual commitment to life issues, while he is in power. Mr. Fox ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Oct, 2000 at 7:59 in
Abortion | Author:
Barbara Maloney McAdorey By Barbara Maloney McAdorey
The Interim
A recent article, entitled "Abortion Wars," by Leonard Stern, which appeared in The Citizen's Weekly, a Sunday supplement in The Ottawa Citizen, gave a fair and honest account of the abortion situation in Canada, something not often seen in mainstream media. As reported in the June issue of The Interim, at an outdoor Mass in Vanier, Ottawa's Roman Catholic Archbishop Marcel Gervais praised the article for its "ample treatment of the pro-life ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Oct, 2000 at 7:56 in
Abortion, Post-abortion and Health Care, Pro-Life | Author:
Paul Tuns
Media commentary by Paul Tuns
The Interim
The Huang family of the village Caidian in the Chinese province of Hubei already had three children when local family planning officials heard about Mrs. Huang's pregnancy. The officials tried but failed to induce an abortion by injecting Huang with salt water. The baby survived the botched abortion attempt and the officials visited the family in the hospital to order the father to kill his own child. He hid the baby but when the family ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Oct, 2000 at 7:55 in
Abortion, Fetal Rights | Author:
Paul Tuns
Pro-abortion doctor admits preborn children suffer, says anaesthetics should be used
By Paul Tuns
The Interim
Pro-abortion doctor Vivette Glover, of Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital in London, England, recommended Aug. 28 that "all terminations between 17 and 24 weeks be performed under anaesthetic," after recognizing the unborn child is capable of feeling pain.
Her remarks came more than two months before Glover chairs a November conference at the Royal Institution on fetal awareness, a polite phrase used to refer to the fact ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Oct, 2000 at 7:41 in
Abortion, Pro-Life, Religion | Author:
London's Bishop Sherlock denounces misrepresentation of his endorsment
The Interim
One of the feared outcomes of the support by Catholic leaders of the pro-abortion World March of Women 2000 has been realized. Abortion advocates are implying in their literature that Canada's Catholic bishops are fully in support of the march without reservations.
The Toronto Organizing Committee of the World March of Women has been distributing a pamphlet on the ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Oct, 2000 at 7:38 in
Abortion, Activism, Pro-Life, Profiles | Author:
Michael Coren By Michael Coren
The Interim
Merle Terlesky used to kick people. And push them, scream at them and tread on their hands. Why? Because she was a pro-choice activist and for five years was at the centre of the Canadian campaign to defend and extend abortion. His victims were pro-lifers. But after an encounter with cancer and a radical change of life this young man from ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Oct, 2000 at 7:36 in
Abortion, Motherhood, Pro-Life | Author:
The Interim
As the October issue of The Interim went to press the United States Food and Drug administration announced it has given final approval to the abortion pill RU-486, which pro-lifers call a "human pesticide." The approval process was begun by President Bill Clinton, as one of his first acts in office in 1993.
"Campaign Life Coalition is shocked that a dangerous drug has been given such approval in the U.S. and we will strenuously oppose its acceptance in Canada. This pill ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Oct, 2000 at 7:33 in
Abortion, Abortion Law, Real Women | Author:
John-Henry Westen
By John-Henry Westen
The Interim
The United Nations Millennium Summit, the largest gathering of world leaders in history, concluded in New York Sept. 8. The Summit Declaration, a statement agreed to by a vote of the vast majority of world leaders, is regarded by the United Nations as having "sketched out clear directions for adapting the organization to its role in the new century." The plan for a new world order, or one world government was long thought far-fetched, but the recent ... (Continue reading)
