We have many non-Christians in Canada. What is the position of Islam on abortion and euthanasia? L.M. North York. Doctors at the 1981 International Conference on Islamic Medicine, held in Kuwait, issued the document. It answers your question. The Doctor’s Oath I swear by God…The Almighty To regard God in carrying out my profession. To protect human life in all its stages [...]
In the last four issues The Interim has been documenting cases of provincial intrusion into religiously run hospitals. Catholic hospitals throughout the country are under increasing pressure from governments to relinquish health-care management to the province. The provincial governments of Saskatchewan, New Brunswick and now Newfoundland contend that these takeovers will save money. The hospitals feel that their medical ethics will be [...]
The following are pronouncements issued by American Catholic bishops against politicians who speak on the abortion issue from both sides of their mouths. They are of interest to Canadians who face the same kind of politicians. “Values Void” St. Paul, Minn. In a July 9, 1992, column of the diocesan newspaper The Catholic Bulletin, Archbishop John Roach of St. Paul-Minneapolis admonished two [...]
Organizers of the upcoming Lift up Life Conference in P.E.I. are hoping that the positive mood generated from Toronto’s Save the Planet’s People conference will carry up the St. Lawrence and into the Maritimes. The list of speakers for the October 16, 17, 18 meet is extremely impressive and serves as an early indication that the conference will be as successful as [...]
Marjorie Reed, 50, is a Toledo housewife. She has a husband, Robert, who sells cars and a son, Jamie, 16, who is in high school. In a quieter, saner time she would grow old gracefully, caring for her home, her family attending to her needs. But in 1992, in America, the times are not quiet or sane. For her commitment to saving [...]
Four pro-life leaders, including the president of two national organizations, Alliance for Life and Campaign Life Coalition, have rejected the opinion of R.C. Archbishop Marcel Gervais that the pro-life movement has become “tragically divisive and angry.” (See Interim, June 1992, pp 18, 19 for the text of Archbishop’s May 3 address.) Archbishop Gervais is the President of the Canadian Conference of Catholic [...]
One of the world’s leading medical journals, The Lancet (September 21, 1991), has reported on the effects of the abortion pill RU 486 on the children of two women. The pill did not cause an abortion in either case: one woman carried an apparently normal child to term; the second mother, following an ultrasound test which showed the child was seriously malformed, [...]
In July, Ontario Health Minister Frances Lankin appealed to the federal government to hasten approval of Etienne Baulieu’s abortion pill, RU 486. Apparently, as far as she is concerned, the drug is perfectly fine. But is it? As previously noted in The Interim, an international enquiry commission with headquarters in Paris drew attention in a 1990 report to some of the hazards [...]
Paul Jilesen sleeps cradled in his father’s arms blissfully unaware of the national stir his young life has created. He and his family are used to the media glare by now – the three-month-old has been in the spotlight almost from the moment of his conception. Paul is a normal bouncing baby boy but at 20 weeks, while still in his mother’s [...]