Issues
Written on 28 Mar, 2013 at 11:52 in
Motherhood, Society & Culture | Author:
Pauline Kosalka Every year, 358,000 mothers and 4 million babies die or are stillborn because of poor maternal care. Put another way, 800 women die every day from preventable causes related to pregnancy. Approximately three per cent of women living in sub-Saharan Africa die because of complications relating to pregnancy. Save the Mothers is a Canadian charity that is attempting to remedy these preventable deaths.
Save the Mothers was started by Dr. Jean Chamberlain-Froese, a Canadian obstetrician/gynaecologist, inspired by her experiences treating mothers ... (Continue reading)
Written on 27 Mar, 2013 at 16:49 in
Abortion | Author:
Pauline Kosalka Prince Edward Island, long praised as a “life sanctuary” by the pro-life movement for not providing surgical abortions, now has a doctor willing to do chemical abortions. Chemical abortions, sometimes called medical abortions, are brought about by taking abortion-inducing drugs that make the uterine wall inhospitable to newly conceived life; without the ability to grow safely in that location, it is expelled from the womb and dies.
On January 28, CBC and the Charlottetown Guardian newspaper interviewed a woman from P.E.I. ... (Continue reading)
Written on 27 Mar, 2013 at 16:42 in
Abortion | Author:
Patrick C. Craine Special to The Interim An Ottawa abortionist was ordered to cease performing abortions in 2011 after an inspection found he failed to meet the “minimum expected standard” for anesthesia and lacked the necessary safety standards and resuscitation equipment.
The report on Dr. Wee-Lim Sim was made public Feb. 1, by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario as part of a new initiative to publicize the results of inspections on “out-of-hospital” premises.
Sim, a registered obstetrician and gynecologist operating at 371 Friel St., says he ... (Continue reading)
Written on 25 Mar, 2013 at 14:55 in
Announcements, Editorials, Features, Society & Culture | Author:
This cartoon was the first editorial cartoon printed in The Interim March 1983. (caption was) The others may be for the Toronto Star, but The Interim's for me.
This issue marks the 30th anniversary of The Interim newspaper. Our first issue was published by Campaign Life Coalition in March 1983 to counter the pro-abortion media bias. Specifically at the time, the mainstream media’s refusal to give adequate coverage of former abortionist ... (Continue reading)
Written on 15 Mar, 2013 at 10:33 in
Abortion, Announcements, Features, Politics | Author:
Paul Tuns Maurice Vellacott - Saskatoon-Wanuskewin (left), Wladyslaw Lizon - Mississauga-Cooksville (centre), and Leon Benoit - Vegreville-Wainwright (right).
On January 23, three Conservative MPs wrote a letter to RCMP commissioner Bob Paulson calling for a criminal investigation into the deaths of 491 babies born alive after abortions but left to die. The deaths occurred between 2000 and 2009.
Last Fall, the Run with Life blog reported that according to official mortality numbers from Statistics ... (Continue reading)
Written on 12 Mar, 2013 at 15:07 in
Announcements, Defund Abortion, Features | Author:
Paul Tuns Campaign Life Coalition Youth is organizing its second Defund Abortion Rally to Queen’s Park on March 19, to demand an end to using taxpayer dollars to pay for abortions. On Oct. 22, 2011, an estimated 2000 people of all ages attended the first Defund Abortion Rally at the provincial legislature, but CLC’s follow-up last Fall was postponed when Hurricane Sandy forced its temporary cancellation over safety concerns.
In 2011, Campaign Life ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Feb, 2013 at 9:00 in
Abortion, Announcements, Features, Society & Culture | Author:
Pauline Kosalka Conceived in rape Rebecca Kiessling is critical of the rape exception tolerated by some pro-lifers.
The issue of abortion and rape was brought to the forefront with the failed candidacies of Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock during the American general election, and the Democratic exploitation of their gaffes. Akin, a Republican Senate candidate and outgoing congressman in Missouri, set off a media firestorm when asked last Summer on KTVI-TV about his ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Feb, 2013 at 8:54 in
Announcements, Features, Marriage and Family | Author:
Theresa Yoshioka Optimizing assistance to mothers with hyperemesis gravidarum
The Princess of Cambridge has hyperemesis gravidarum, a condition that leads one in six who get it to abort their children.
When Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, was hospitalized for hyperemesis gravidarum (HG), many didn’t realize the condition is potentially life-threatening to both mother and baby. One comment online was typical of the reaction from coffee shop chit-chat to talk ... (Continue reading)
Written on 25 Feb, 2013 at 9:11 in
Book Review, Euthanasia | Author:
Review Paul Tuns Exposing Vulnerable People to Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide by Alex Schadenberg (Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, 66 pages, $20 for ebook or paper)
It can be difficult to keep on top of the latest medical studies and reports, let alone understand what they are saying (and as importantly, not saying). Alex Schadenberg’s Exposing Vulnerable People to Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide is a brief volume that examines and critiques seven recent studies reported in ... (Continue reading)
Written on 25 Feb, 2013 at 9:06 in
Abortion | Author:
Paul Tuns In 1969, Parliament effectively introduced abortion-on-demand in Canada when it amended the Criminal Code to permit abortions when a hospital’s therapeutic abortion committee (TAC) deemed it necessary for the health of the mother to have one; by definition, free-standing abortion facilities that did not have these TACs were illegal. TACs were to take into account the health of the mother, but the definition of health was so broad it included emotion and psychological consideration, and any distress the mother reported ... (Continue reading)
Written on 24 Feb, 2013 at 19:37 in
Columnist, Marriage and Family, Rory Leishman | Author:
National Affairs Rory Leishman
In an ominous sign of the times, London’s Daily Telegraph published a joint letter to the editor on Jan. 12 in which more than 1,000 priests and eight bishops of the Catholic Church decry the onset of a new age of religious persecution in Britain.
Of prime concern to the letter-writers is the determination of the government of British Prime Minister David Cameron to enact same-sex “marriage” into ... (Continue reading)
Written on 23 Feb, 2013 at 9:16 in
Planned Parenthood | Author:
Pauline Kosalka As Planned Parenthood celebrated its 96th anniversary on October 16, Americans United for Life (AUL) released 22 backgrounders throughout the month of October that emphasized why the organization should be investigated and de-funded. AUL’s project, titled “The Planned Parenthood Exhibits: The Continuing Case for Investigating the Nation’s Largest Abortion Provider,” was a follow-up to its July 7 report, “The Case for Investigating Planned Parenthood,” which helped to inspire a Congressional investigation of the organization. Dr. Charmaine Yoest, head of the ... (Continue reading)
Written on 8 Feb, 2013 at 12:49 in
Announcements, Euthanasia, Features | Author:
Paul Tuns Quebec’s Parti Quebecois Premier Pauline Marois has said the province will follow the government-appointed commission’s recommendation that Quebec bypass the Canadian Criminal Code prohibition on euthanasia by passing so-called “dying with dignity” legislation, which would treat the deliberate killing of patients as a medical rather than legal matter.
The Special Commission on Dying with Dignity’s report said Quebec could chose not to prosecute doctors who help end the lives of terminally ill or other patients because while the federal government enacts ... (Continue reading)
Written on 30 Jan, 2013 at 10:10 in
Abortion Law | Author:
Pauline Kosalka The reporter who broke the story that set off a storm of worldwide criticism of Ireland’s abortion laws is questioning Praveen Halappanavar’s account of the death of his wife, Savita. Kitty Holland reported in the Nov. 14 edition of the Irish Times that Praveen claimed his wife requested an abortion and was denied one because the child had a heartbeat and “this is a Catholic country.” Although the article stated that Savita died of septicaemia and E. coli ESBL, the ... (Continue reading)
Written on 30 Jan, 2013 at 10:08 in
Abortion statistics | Author:
Patrick B.Craine Special to The Interim Statistics Canada
Pro-life advocates are calling for a federal investigation after Canada’s official statistics agency has confirmed that 491 babies died after they were born alive during abortions between 2000 and 2009.
Statistics Canada confirmed the information in an e-mail to LifeSiteNews. Pro-life blogger Patricia Maloney of Blog for Life first discovered the data about the abortions in the federal agency’s online database.
Mary Ellen Douglas, National Organizer for Campaign Life Coalition, called the revelation “outrageous.”
“The federal government needs ... (Continue reading)
