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Euthanasia vote in Canada delayed until winnable?
LifeSiteNews.com has a story on how MP Rod Bruinooge (C, Winnipeg South) is disappointed that Bloc MP Francine Lalonde keeps trading dates to prevent a vote on C-384, her private member's bill that, if passed, would legalize abortion. Bruinooge said, "I was looking forward to seeing this bill defeated," and he suggested that Lalonde will continue pushing back the date for a vote on C-384. The thinking is that she has nowhere near the votes to get it passed but doesn't want to ... (Continue reading)
Baby Jayla’s story
The Interimran an article about Baby Jayla and her parents in the December issue (Family thankful for the time they had with child) which is one of the feature stories on the website this month. You don't want to miss it. It's the story of the DeSouza family. When mother Gillian found out that the child she was carrying had triple X syndrome and a congenital heart defect, her doctor (and ... (Continue reading)
Harper in Red China
I was going to title this blog post "4 years is less than 60 years" alluding to the four years Red China's leaders waited for Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper to visit is a lot shorter than the 60 years the Chinese people have been waiting for democracy. Put another way, the communist leadership in Beijing waited one year for every 15 years they have kept their people under communist rule. You've probably seen the news by now: Harper was rebuked by his ... (Continue reading)
Bob Casey is a weasel
CNSNews.com reports that Senator Bob Casey Jr. will not say whether he agrees with the statement by Philadelphia Cardinal Justin Regali who said that Catholic politicians cannot in good conscience vote for the Senate health care reform bill without substantial changes because the bill would fund abortions. Casey refuses to comment: "I’m not one who compares what I say versus what someone else says about the bill." CNSNews also reports that Casey indicates he will support an amendment similar to the Stupak amendment passed in the ... (Continue reading)
Fr. Ted Scholarship deadline approaching
The deadline for the Fr. Ted Colleton Scholarship, an essay contest open to Grade 11 and 12 high school students co-sponsored by The Interim, is December 8. (Continue reading)
Coren blogging for SunMedia
Michael Coren is Canada's most prominent pro-life journalist (and a columnist for The Interim). Readers of SunMedia-owned papers can read his column every weekend. Now you can read Coren regularly at his SunMedia blog. Welcome to the blogosphere, Michael. (Continue reading)
Assorted links (12/03)
Denise Burke writes about "Obama Administration Ups Anti-Life “Ante” on Bioethics" at the Americans United for Life blog, looking at Barack Obama establishing the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues and the National Institutes of Health approval of $21 million for research on 21 embryonic stem cell lines. CNSNews.com reports that Rev. Carlton Veazy, president and CEO of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, says abortion is a "God-given right." Le Shawn Barber reacts. Susan B. Anthony List ... (Continue reading)
Lalonde delays vote on euthanasia bill to prevent its defeat: MP Bruinooge
A press release from MP Rod Bruinooge (C, Winnipeg South): Francine Lalonde moves to prevent MPs from defeating her euthanasia bill, for now Today, Members of Parliament were prevented from defeating bill C-384, which proposes legalized euthanasia. Francine Lalonde, the Bloc MP who created the bill, delayed the scheduled vote. Bill C-384 was scheduled to come before the House for second reading today. The bill calls for the legalization of euthanasia and assisted suicide in Canada. "I was looking forward to seeing this bill ... (Continue reading)
First federally funded human ESCR project approved
The Washington Post reports: The Obama administration on Wednesday approved the first human embryonic stem cells for experiments by federally funded scientists under a new policy designed to dramatically expand government support for one of the most promising but also most contentious fields of biomedical research. Of course, ESCR's promise is itself contentious. For starters, read Maureen L. Condic's January 2007 First Things article "What We Know About Embryonic Stem Cells". (Continue reading)
Send Christmas cards to a pro-life prisoner of conscience
Linda Gibbons has spent seven of the past 15 years behind bars for peacefully witnessing, mostly praying, outside a Toronto abortion facility. (We reported on her legal fight last Spring, although the optimism that the injustice of the Ontario bubble injunction is nothing new.) LifeSiteNews.com is encouraging pro-lifers to write to her, with instructions on how to go about doing that, here. There is an appeal of one case scheduled for December 10 and a trial date ... (Continue reading)
Why are lesbians allowed to have an opinion on abortion?
Jill Stanek on anti-Stupak amendment protests held today by pro-aborts: Lesbians are also participating, although I don't know why they're sticking their noses into the abortion debate. If men can't, why can women who don't naturally reproduce? (Continue reading)
Justin Trudeau following in Pierre’s footsteps
Yesterday LifeSiteNews reported on a June 2009 French-language interview with Justin Trudeau, a Liberal MP from Quebec and son of former prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau. In it Trudeau the Younger admits he is at odds with the Roman Catholic Church into which he was born and raised on issues such as abortion and homosexuality. While claiming to be a believer, he says: "As a politician I have political positions on gay marriage and on abortion that don't at ... (Continue reading)
Euthanasia: the right to kill, not the right to die
Brian Lilley has a very good column at The Examiner on the issue of euthanasia and the dishonest talking point mistaken belief that it involves the right to "pull the plug." Euthanasia is not the ending of treatment (a passive act) to let a patient die, but a deliberate action to bring about the death of the patient. Lilley notes, "Those who say euthanasia should be allowed because they alone should get to control when they die seem to forget that ... (Continue reading)
Assorted links (12/02)
Brian Lilley writes in the Examiner about C-384: "Euthanasia is about killing, not the 'right to die with dignity'." LifeSiteNews.com reports that likely future Canadian Liberal leader Justin Trudeau admits that his moral positions do not reflect that of the Catholic Church in which he was raised. David Prentice at the Family Research Council blog points to some promising developments using adult stem cells to treat lung disorders. Don Hutchinson, vice president of the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada and the ... (Continue reading)
Abortion as ‘preventive medicine’
Senator Barbara Mikulski (D, MD) has an amendment (No. 2791) to the Senate health care reform bill of Harry Reid that would mandate coverage of "preventive" health care for women. That sounds benign enough but as the National Right to Life Committee notes in a letter to U.S. senators, when the Maryland senator sponsored a similar amendment earlier this year, it was endorsed by the usual suspects (NARAL Pro-Choice America, Catholics for Choice, Physicians for Reproductive Choice and ... (Continue reading)
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