June 2020 Edition of the Interim

2020 Virtual March for Life p. 8, 9, 10 $5.00 Canada’s Life and Family Newspaper June 2020, Vol. XXXVII No.4 Sloan or Lewis for CPC leader p. 3, 4 www.theinterim.com PAGE 2 — THE INTERIM, JUNE 2020 Trump administration criticizes UN’s Canada approves abortion advocacy in COVID response trials of unethical Paul Tuns promotion of abortion in ing the High-Level Meeting guarantees the right to life local country settings.” on Universal Health from conception. On May coronavirus vaccine In an open letter to United Stefano Gennarini, Coverage for promoting 6, Ecuador signed a dec- Nations Secretary General vice president for legal divisive issues such as sex laration “to protect sexual Interim Staff from one stage to proceed Antonio Guterres, the U.S. studies at the Center for education and abortion and reproductive health to the next, but rather con- Agency for International Family and Human Rights rather than focusing on and rights” during the A vaccine watchdog group duct the tests “in a more Development told the UN (C-Fam) in New York, said primary health care. Azar pandemic. Assemblyman has raised concerns about accelerated fashion, with- to stop treating abortion “the letter is unprecedent- wrote that the 19 signa- Hector Yepez said it made Health Canada approving out sacrificing any safety.” as essential humanitarian ed in its direct criticism tories, including the U.S., no sense to “want to save a human clinical trial for Normal safety protocols relief during the COVID- of the UN bureaucracy’s were “united on a posi- some lives,” while also a Chinese coronavirus vac- are being suspended to 19 pandemic. promotion of abortion as tive, constructive goal: insisting “on eliminating cine that uses aborted fetal get a vaccine to market John Barsa, acting direc- humanitarian aid.” focusing the international the lives of unborn girls cell lines in its develop- as quickly as possible. He tor of USAID, reminded discourse around health- and boys.” ment. The vaccine, Ad5- envisions the third and Guterres that the U.S. is care on better health and Barsa concludes that, “it nCoV, was discovered by final stage of testing to the largest funder of the on the preservation of is essential that the UN’s Chinese scientists and is begin in late summer or UN, global health, and human life.” response to the pandemic scheduled imminent test- early fall. humanitarian assistance. Barsa wrote in his let- avoid creating controversy. ing in Canada. Forbes magazine He added: “As the UN and ter that the UN “should Therefore, I ask that you The vaccine Ad5-nCoV reports that the average Member States around the not intimidate or coerce remove references to uses the HEK293 cell line time it takes a vaccine world work to address Member States that are ‘sexual and reproductive that is derived from abort- to reach market is 10-15 the pandemic of COVID- committed to the right health,’ and its derivatives ed fetal cells. The HEK293 years. Trudeau and other 19, I urge you, your staff, to life” and, “To use the from the Global HRP cell line was developed world leaders are talking and the UN’s funds, pro- COVID-19 pandemic as a (Humanitarian Response and is owned by Canada’s about not fully reopening grams, and specialized justification to pressure Plan), and drop the National Research Council the economy and schools and technical agencies to governments to change provision of abortion as (NRC). On May 12, the until a vaccine is ready for stay focused on life-saving their laws is an affront an essential component NRC announced it would widespread use and opti- interventions.” to the autonomy of each of the UN’s priorities to work with the Chinese mistically state it could be Barsa continued: “The John Barsa, acting director society to determine its respond to the COVID-19 firm CanSino Biologics Inc. ready by mid- to late-2021. UN’s Global Humanitarian of USAID, wrote letter own national policies on pandemic.” to test and develop Ad5- Ted Kuntz, president Response Plan (Global criticizing UN. health care. The United CNN reported that nCoV in Canada. CanSino of Vaccine Choice Canada HRP), and its $6.71 bil- States stands with nations Serra Sippel, president of worked with the Beijing (VCC), a not-for-profit soci- lion coordinated appeal, It is not the first that have pledged to pro- the Center for Health and Institute of Biotechnology ety founded by families must remain focused time, however, that the tect the unborn.” Gender Equity (CHANGE) to develop the vaccine. who have suffered from on addressing the most Trump administration has Days before the let- criticized Barsa’s let- Chinese clinical trials vaccine reactions or inju- urgent, concrete needs informed the UN that it ter was published, ter. “USAID should be began in March. ries, said the source of the that are arising out of the should cease its abortion Ecuadorian elected offi- ashamed for its outlandish Prime Minister Justin vaccine should “be a con- pandemic. Therefore, the advocacy. cials and pro-life groups attempt to use coronavi- Trudeau announced the cern” for everyone and that UN should not use this Last year, President told the Catholic News rus as a means of disman- collaboration and said if rushing a vaccine to mar- crisis as an opportunity to Donald Trump told the Agency that Ecuador’s tling a long-standing sexu- the clinical trials are suc- ket could do more harm advance access to abortion General Assembly the UN Ministry of Foreign al and reproductive health cessful, he is hopeful that than good. Kuntz told as an ‘essential service’.” has “no business attacking Relations and Mobility rights framework from the “we can produce and dis- LifeSiteNews that “bypass- Barsa explained: the sovereignty of nations was told that it could UN’s pandemic response,” tribute it here at home.” ing standard and prudent “Unfortunately, the Global that wish to protect inno- have $46 million from the said Sippel. “When the He added that the research safety protocols and rush- HRP does just this, by cyni- cent life.” Trump has said UN’s Global Humanitarian United States steps away would take time and “must ing a vaccine to market cally placing the provision his administration will Response Plan if the gov- from an internationally be done right.” not only increases the risk of “sexual and reproduc- “never tire defending ernment agreed to ear- agreed upon SRHR frame- The CBC reported that of producing a product tive health services” on innocent human life.” Last mark $3 million to train work, it steps away from Canadian clinical trials that will cause more harm the same level of impor- December, Trump’s Health “health care personnel on protecting women’s right will involve 600 people than good, it has the very tance as food-insecurity, and Human Secretary, safe, legal abortion and to life.” and be carried out by real potential to severely essential health care, Alex Azar, released a letter post-abortion care.” The The National Right to the Canadian Centre for undermine trust in our malnutrition, shelter, and co-signed with 10 other Guayaquil Family Network Life Committee congratu- Vaccinology at Dalhousie health professionals, our sanitation. Most egregious countries, criticizing the launched a petition urging lated Trump for his pro- University in Halifax. Dr. health agencies, and in the is that the Global HRP pro-abortion agenda of the President Lenin Moreno life message to the UN: Scott Halperin, director of entire vaccine paradigm.” calls for the widespread Nairobi Summit in Kenya. to reject the abortion “the United States has the Centre, told CTV that Ad5-nCoV is the world’s distribution of abortion- In October, Azar released “shakedown” from the made clear that we will because of the coronavirus first coronavirus vaccine inducing drugs and abor- a letter co-signed with 18 UN, noting that Article 45 ‘never tire of defending pandemic, his team will to be approved in human tion supplies, and for the other countries, denounc- of Ecuador’s constitution innocent life’.” not wait for full results clinical tests. Italian psychiatrist raises doubts about assisted suicide and mental illness Interim Staff sent an intrinsic challenge psychiatrists approving almost a third of people any intervention to a non- the question is: what is to psychiatrists, who are euthanasia or assisted sui- with mental health issues terminally ill person for the point of psychiatrists Bernardo Carpiniello of largely forced to base their cide requests, pointing who requested assisted the purpose of causing trying in every way the Department of Medical evaluation on subjective, out, “assessments of com- suicide later changed their death.” possible to prevent suicide Sciences and Public personal criteria, partic- petency, sustained wish to mind. Still, despite such oppo- if the person concerned Health-Unit of Psychiatry ularly given the lack of die prematurely, depres- These figures may help sition, Carpiniello warns, is entitled by law to seek at the University of objective, reliable criteria.” sive disorder, demoraliza- explain why surveys of once euthanasia is per- assistance to commit this Cagliari, Italy, published tion and ‘unbearable suf- Dutch doctors find that mitted in a jurisdiction, it action?” an article in the Journal fering’ in the terminally only a third of them will becomes a “slippery slope, Carpiniello worries that of the Italian Society of ill are clinically uncertain participate in euthana- down which we have among the “undesirable Psychiatry warning about and difficult tasks ... As yet sia for mental disorders. rolled to now allow some- consequences of assisted the dangers of permitting psychiatry does not have He also noted that the thing that was impossible suicide,” will be psychia- euthanasia and assisted the expertise to ‘select’ number of psychiatrists to conceive as ever being trists “giving up treating suicide for those with those whose wish for has- opposed to euthanasia for acceptable.” some patients” if eutha- mental disorders.

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