Pro-life Groups

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Blogging is opening doors for social conservatives

Eli Schuster The Interim In the bad old days, when communists ruled Eurasia from the Elbe to the Bering Sea, dissidents were forced to meet in clandestine situations and copy banned Samizdat literature, either by hand or on unreliable mimeograph machines. Today, individuals who dislike the Western world’s culture of ... (Continue reading)

Caving in to the media

Tony Gosgnach The Interim The Bank of Montreal has decided to cease a fundraising MasterCard affinity program it had arranged with the Life Canada organization, but the pro-life group’s leaders say the media, more than the bank, are to blame for the development. Life Canada and its predecessor, Alliance for Life, had ... (Continue reading)

Thousands stand up for marriage in nation’s capital

Paul Tuns The Interim At least 15,000 Canadians attended the March for Marriage on Parliament Hill April 9 to let politicians and the public know that the definition of marriage is not to be tinkered with. Some estimates put the number as high ... (Continue reading)

Q & A with: Mark Crutcher

Tony Gosgnach The Interim Mark Crutcher is the founder and president of Life Dynamics Inc., a Denton-Tx.-based organization founded in 1991. LDI has become known for its Abortion Malpractice Program, the Direct Mail program and various undercover investigations into the U.S. abortion industry. Those ... (Continue reading)

Grassroots pro-lifers impact Conservative policy convention

Paul Tuns and John-Henry Westen The Interim When you read the papers or watched the television broadcasts heralding the Conservative Party of Canada’s shift to the centre following their policy convention in Montreal in mid-March, you would be convinced that the social liberals routed the social conservatives in the policy and constitutional votes. But ... (Continue reading)

Silent No More goes global

Tony Gosgnach The Interim A North American initiative that has been successful in letting women come forth and tell about their negative experiences with abortion is now poised to go global. International Protection for Women and Preborn Children, as it is ... (Continue reading)

U.S. March for Life upbeat

Interim Staff At least 100,000 people, and perhaps as many as 250,00, from across the United States, as well as pro-lifers from around the world, took part in the annual U.S March for Life marking the ... (Continue reading)

2005 will be an exciting year to watch

As I pen these words, you probably think that, as a beginning-of-the-year column, I would be looking back at the previous year. Indeed, there were numerous glimmers of hope, showing that the abortion debate is far from over in this country. Despite the globeandmailtorontostar's view that those who ... (Continue reading)

Project Rachel offers hope for healing

Tony Gosgnach The Interim They've called from as early as three days afterwards to as long as 60 years later, with an average time span of 20-25 years. They could be fathers, grandparents, aunts, uncles, friends and even doctors and nurses. They can suffer from feelings of fear, anxiety, guilt, panic and pressure, both before and afterwards. If early results of the Project Rachel initiative in Hamilton are any indication, it's clear that ... (Continue reading)

Newfoundland & Labrador Right to Life marks 30 years of defending life

Interim Staff Newfoundland & Labrador Right to Life celebrated its 30th year anniversary dinner in St. John's on Oct. 23, during its annual respect for life week. The organization recounted 24 years of its operating St. Elizabeth house, a place of refuge for pregnant women that it opened in 1980. ... (Continue reading)

New director takes over Aid to Women

Ann Wilson, the new director of Toronto's Aid to Women, a crisis pregnancy centre, is, while soft-spoken and gentle-mannered, nevertheless one tough cookie. In July, Wilson assumed the difficult role of persuading women "in crisis" not to seek an abortion. Her task as director is daunting, considering she's ... (Continue reading)

Growing LifeChain numbers a hopeful sign

At major intersections in large cities and along main streets in small towns across the country, ordinary Canadians did the extraordinary on a Sunday afternoon in October. Concerned citizens bravely stood in public with bold signs proclaiming the truth. Once again, LifeChain spread across the streets of this continent, with thousands giving an hour of their time for this pro-life witness. As every year, ... (Continue reading)

Senator Kerry and the flight from reality

Rebecca Porter is the director of Florida's "Operation Outcry Silent No More." She is, one might say, not so much "pro-choice" these days as she is "pro-voice." She, and countless "victims of choice," who have been hurt by abortion and carry with them deep personal scars, do not want to remain silent, lest their absence of a voice lead people to think that abortion is harmless. Recently, Porter decided to inform Senator Kerry and his followers about ... (Continue reading)

Borowski for sainthood?

I met two people in my life whom I genuinely feel should be declared saints (other than my wife and my bank manager) and they are Dr. Jerome Lejeune and Joe (hold on now) ... Borowski. One, Dr. Lejeune, a genius and world-renowned scientist, and devout, pro-life Catholic, who discovered the cause of Down syndrome and the other, Joe Borowski, a former hard-rock miner, who described himself as "the guy who carries the lunch pail," a ... (Continue reading)

Thanking the Friends of Life

In December, The Interim editorial advisory board, The Interim business board and invited guests gathered for a meeting to examine the paper's future - how to improve our product, increase our revenues and expand our circulation. One participant in this process suggested we move to a Supporters of The Interim type feature in which donors were listed on a page recognizing the friends of life. It was suggested that churches that ... (Continue reading)

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