Doctors who practice good medical ethics understand their role in dispensing health care. Death and social engineering are not their areas of competence or responsibility. The individual who is sick is their responsibility, not society at large. They recognize the possibility of wrong diagnosis, non-infallible prognosis (where the doomed patient survived). And the possibility of a new cure, all of which prompt [...]
But the new "cool" violence-presented as killing in the name of compassion, and referred to as "concern for the dying" seems to have had a different effect on the public, particularly when it is practiced under "impeccable auspices." For example: Doctors at the Yale-New haven Hospital in the United States and Doctors at the Sick Children's Hospital in Toronto have allowed retarded [...]
The Centre for Life Understanding The following is Part 6 of a 6 part article. Originally published in The Canadian Messenger of the Sacred Heart, Toronto, in 1980, reprinted here with permission. A statement from the Science Council of Canada in the Toronto Star, August 18 1979, notes that "mercy killing could well become the social issue of the next century - [...]
The Editorial On Oct. 25, l983, Canada's parliament passed Bill C-169, and killed free speech in this country. The bill concerns the Elections Act and amendments to it "in Regard to Third Party Organizations." Squirreled away in the bill, which had been pushed through all three readings in the space of one hour, were new provisions aimed directly at muzzling pro-lifers during [...]
In the December 1983 issue of Interim I gave a broad overview of the interesting situation in Langley, B.C. where the local hospital board of trustees has satisfactorily resolved a controversy over therapeutic abortions. In that article I promised to follow up with a second, detailing the ways in which this success was achieved. Background The 1968 changes to the Criminal Code [...]
Campaign Life's Ray Kirkham, of Delta, was among the 50 to 60 members of Surrey-Delta Pro-Life and Campaign Life who picketed the Surrey Inn on Wednesday, November 16. Inside, Iona Campagnolo, President of the Federal Liberal Party, was addressing a gathering of some 200 women, sponsored by the Liberal Party. Ms. Campagnolo, who is believed to have aspirations towards the leadership of [...]
Editorial Report On December 8, 1983, Roland Penner, the NDP Attorney General of Manitoba, announced that he was withdrawing the charge of conspiracy of performing an illegal abortion against abortionist Henry Morgentaler. He then laid a new charge of performing an illegal abortion, a charge Mr. Penner knew in advance to be meaningless as Morgentaler was not in Manitoba at the time. [...]