Supposing information from embryonic experiments proved to be useful, would it be ethical to us it? M.P., Toronto, Ontario. It is useful to look at a similar case. While doing post-graduate work in Arctic Studies in the 1950’s, I had access to accounts of the Nazi doctors’ experiments on the effects of cold on the human body. The victims, stark naked, were [...]
Ontario Citizenship Minister Elaine Ziemba addressed a group of about 50 homosexual and lesbian students January 29, 1991, at the University of Toronto on the occasion of ‘Lesbian and Gay Awareness Week.’ Throughout the hour-long meeting, Ms. Ziemba bent over backwards in her attempt not to appear ‘homophobic’. Myth The first thing she did was to dismiss the idea that homosexuals are [...]
One RC theologian in the U.S. continues to do his best to establish that human life does not begin at conception. Peter Steinfels of the New York Times, in a news story which appeared in the Globe and Mail (January 14), outlined arguments by Rev. Richard McCormick that new life does not exhibit the stable and determinate character necessary for considering it [...]
Professor William E. May, moral theologian at the Catholic University of America has written a lucid and important article on the controversial subject of withdrawing or withholding medical treatment (Linacre, August 1990). Moralists Professor May takes strong issue with two highly influential Catholic moralists, Richard McCormick, S.J. (see below) and Kevin O’Rourke, O.P. He regards their position on the withdrawal or withholding [...]
FOR PEACE IN THE MIDST OF WAR In December 1990 Pope John Paul II described war as “an adventure without a return.” On January 11, 1991, he sent a telegram to the secretary general of the United Nations pleading for peace. On January 12, 1991, in his annual address to the diplomatic corps attached to the Vatican, he said that war in [...]
“Prospects called grim for groups fighting abortion,” bannered a Globe and Mail headline following the defeat of Bill-43. “They gave it the good fight, and they lost,” said Jack London, a Manitoba law professor. Fade away Professor Bernard Dickens of Toronto agreed, saying that the abortion controversy will gradually fade away. He predicted a series of harassments of doctors performing abortions, and [...]
Ontario Premier Bob Rae has responded to a letter from the Ontario Bishops (November 1990) and from the Knights of Columbus (December 1990), both of which objected to the underwriting of free-standing abortion ‘clinics’ in Ontario. Both are reaffirmations of the NDP government’s aggressive pro-abortion policy. Two months It took almost two months for Premier Bob Rae to reply to bishop John [...]
Halifax, N.S. Pro-life activists Ann Marie Tomlins and Dianne Smith spearheaded the creation in January 1990 of a new organization to express women’s views on a wide range of issues. Conviction “Attending the Human Life International strategy weekend in Halifax in November confirmed our conviction that many related factors contribute to the abortion problem, and these must be addressed in a special [...]
Everywoman’s Abortion ‘Clinic’ has a new neighbour! And what a good neighbour it is, too. Who could not like a neighbour who prays for you every day? A neighbour who welcomes your visitors into her home and provides for their every need? A neighbour who keeps a watchful eye on your place day and night? Whimper Without so much as a whimper [...]
In late January, Nova Scotia Progressive Conservatives elected industry Minister Donald Cameron as the new leader. This automatically makes him the new provincial Premier as well. No changes The premier presents himself as pro-life, yet, according to The Daily News, he does not intend “to make any changes that would curtail abortion services” in Nova Scotia. His nearest rival for the leadership [...]
On January 31, 1991, just over three years since the Supreme Court of Canada struck down the 1969 Trudeau law, Prime Minister Brian Mulroney’s attempt to re-legalize abortion on demand went down to a bizarre defeat in the Senate. In many ways the tied vote 43 for, 43 against – was victory of pro-life Senator Stanley Haidasz who waged a one-man pro-life [...]
Burning Times One of the better known branches of the National Film Board (NFB) is its feminist film making branch, Studio D. • This time taxpayers' dollars have gone into the making of Burning Times, a documentary on the purported evolution of witchcraft. Originally, the film explains, witches were the wise women in villages across Europe. They were the inheritors of an [...]
People tell me how hard it is to raise a child today. I tell them it's even harder to bury a child." There is a certain coldness and distance in Steve Taylor's voice as he speaks. Although it has been almost four years since his son's death, the pain is still there. It always hurts when you bury your child. Past "We [...]
The British Medical Journal reports that "More patients have probably been harmed than helped so far" by the treatment of Parkinson's disease that involves the transplanting of cells, including cells taken from aborted fetuses. In an article dated August 11, 1990, Adrian Williams, Professor of Clinical Neurology at the University of Birmingham thinks the treatment is still experimental. Technical problems When cells [...]
The following is an extract from the oral comments made by Wendy McNeeley, president of Campaign Life Coalition/ British Columbia, to the Royal Commission on Reproductive Technology. "Before I had considered what I wanted to say today, I was saddened by the number of people who all told me that this commission was an utter waste of time. Waste of time "It [...]