Michael Ignatieff has famously insisted that the government’s plan to address maternal health and infant mortality include abortion. We cover this story in depth on pages 10-11, but there are two important points. First, nobody in his right mind would equate abortion with maternal health; that much should go without saying, although apparently there are some things only a Harvard professor can believe. Second, every dollar that goes to abortion will not go to clean water, vaccinations, nutrition programs and ... (Continue reading)
Ignatieff pushes abortion as Harper calls for G8 to help world’s poorest The numbers are staggering. A half-million women die during pregnancy every year. Nine million children in the developing world will die before their fifth birthday. That’s one pregnant mother and 18 children every minute of every day of the year will die prematurely, unnecessarily. Their dire circumstances cry out for redress, but thus far, ... (Continue reading)
In November, the House of Representatives passed the Stupak-Pitts amendment (240-194) prohibiting direct or indirect federal taxpayer subsidies for abortion through the comprehensive health care reform bill before the House. The battle then moved to the Senate where senators Robert Casey Jr. (D, Penn.) and Ben Nelson (D, Neb.) fought for a similar amendment in the bill brought forward by ... (Continue reading)
Ontario’s Family Coalition Party is riding a wave of enthusiasm as it prepares to enter 2010 by welcoming its third leader in its 22-year history. Phil Lees, a Hamilton-area educator and municipal family issues activist, was acclaimed to head the party during its leadership convention at the Hamilton Convention Centre on Oct. 24. He succeeds Giuseppi Gori, who took over from founding leader Don Pennell. The party has enjoyed ... (Continue reading)
Editor’s Note: The Interim asked past winners of Campaign Life Coalition’s Joseph P. Borowski Award (for outstanding pro-life leadership in the political sphere), “What do you foresee in the future for the pro-life movement?” We attempted to contact Roseanne Skoke but they did not return our calls. Rob Merrifield was contacted several times but did not respond. Senator Stanley Haidasz passed away earlier this year and Elsie Wayne has been incapacitated following a stroke in October. ... (Continue reading)
In a headline story on Nov. 8, the New York Times reported that, by voting to ban federal funding for abortion from the major health-care reform bill under consideration in the United States Congress, the House of Representatives “has energized the opponents of abortion with their biggest victory in years.” Quite so. The $1.1 trillion House health-care reform bill proposes to extend insurance coverage to 36 million uninsured Americans ... (Continue reading)
On Nov. 2, a column by Steven Fletcher appeared in the National Post about C-384, a private member’s bill that would legalize euthanasia and doctor-assisted suicide. Fletcher’s opinion could be influential; not only is he a Conservative MP and cabinet minister, he is a paraplegic confined to a wheelchair since a 1996 automobile accident, He said more should be done to improve the lives with severe disabilities and that care for terminally ill patients needs to get much better, but that is ... (Continue reading)
By a vote of 239-46, the House of Commons passed C-268, a private members bill which would provide a minimum five year sentence for traffickers of children. Every Bloc Quebecois MP and three NDP MPs voted against the stricter penalties for child traffickers. The three NDP MPs were: Libby Davies (Vancouver East), Bill Siksay (Burnaby Douglas) and Megan Leslie (Halifax). Davies and Siksay are open homosexuals and Leslie has a “male partner” but describes herself as a “queer activist.” Conservative MP Joy ... (Continue reading)
On Oct. 2, Bill C-384, Francine Lalonde’s private member’s bill to legalize euthanasia and assisted suicide, received its first hour of debate. The bill was introduced on May 13 by the Bloc Québécois MP, in her third attempt to get such legislation passed in Parliament. Two previous attempts were scuttled when an election was called. The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition has led the battle against C-384, including a Stop Bill C-384 postcards campaign, encouraging opponents of euthanasia to send hand-written ... (Continue reading)
Over a two-week span in August, a pair of Kennedy siblings passed away. On Aug. 25, Senator Edward (Teddy) Kennedy died at the age of 87. Since the 1960s, he had been lionized by an adoring media in part because he was a Kennedy, but also because he advanced an unabashedly liberal agenda. Upon his death, he was given a full public funeral Mass despite his pro-abortion advocacy, scandalizing faithful Catholics and other pro-lifers. On Aug. 11, his older sister, ... (Continue reading)
Canada The Ontario Progressive Conservative Party wooed Toronto Sun city hall columnist and married lesbian Sue-Ann Levy to run in a by-election in the downtown Toronto riding of St. Paul. She lost to Liberal candidate Dr. Eric Hoskins, 48 per cent to 29 per cent … Ontario MPP Gerry Martiniuk (PC, Cambridge) introduced a private member’s bill that would require all schools and libraries to put porn-blocking filters on any computer that is accessible to ... (Continue reading)
One of Canada’s most committed pro-life politicians, Stanley Haidasz, passed away August 6 at the age of 86. Haidasz, a Liberal, served in Parliament for nearly a half-century. First elected in 1957, he lost his re-election bid the following year, but regained his Parkdale seat in Toronto in 1962 and was then re-elected five times. In ... (Continue reading)
If you’re going to be a crook, Canada’s the place to be. Not Zambia, where the government isn’t printing any more of its worthless money. Or Somalia, where they haven’t had a central government in 10 years. Or Saudi Arabia, where thieves get their hands cut off and adulterers get stoned. Or Iraq, where your coloured voting finger gets cut off by jihadists. And certainly not the United States, from where ... (Continue reading)
The New Brunswick government has revealed it will not pursue a further appeal to the Supreme Court to prevent abortionist Henry Morgentaler from suing the province to pay for abortions at his Fredericton abortion mill. In May, the New Brunswick Court of Appeal dismissed the province’s appeal of a Court of Queen’s Bench ruling that gave Morgentaler status to pursue a lawsuit on behalf of women claiming the province should pay for abortions in his private facility. “The decision to grant public ... (Continue reading)
Charles Gonthier, a former justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, passed away recently at the age of 80. Appointed by Brian Mulroney in 1989, he developed a reputation as a conservative during his 14 years on the country’s top court. The Canadian Press reported in its obituary that Gonthier offered “a more conservative ... (Continue reading)
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