Good news? Now fetal tissue can be used to treat a range of diseases once thought incurable. Andrew Kimbrell reported the news this way in The Human Body Shop: Despite controversy over their effectiveness, fetal transplant operations are expected to continue and increase over the next few years. In fact, according to many in the medical community, Parkinson’s and diabetes are just [...]
Rose – New Year’s resolutions. To the countless numbers of “ordinary” Canadians whose New Year’s resolution will be to speak up for the voiceless in 1994. Let’s hope they keep this promise and that everyone has a very happy and blessed New Year. Thorn – Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies. For being a $28 million waste of taxpayers’ money. Among its [...]
At long last, there is hope. Not only the hope which each new year brings but real hope, hope we can put our hands on. We find this hope, of all places, in the usually unfriendly editorial pages of the Globe and Mail. The seemingly rock solid empire that is “choice”, backed by 25 years of incredible media and legal success, has [...]
“Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.” Robert Louis Stevenson Greeting and salutations! If you are now reading this column, congratulations are in order. You have just received the bonus [...]
The man they call “Dr Death” is a free man. The notorious suicide doctor, Jack Kevorkian, has been released from a Michigan county jail after posting a reduced bail of $100. Kevorkian had earlier refused to post a bail set at $50,000 and had undertaken an 18-day hunger strike to prove his point. Kevorkian, who has been present at 20 suicides, was [...]
“This is Birthright. Can I help you?” These were the opening words of a wonderful speech delivered by Louise Summerhill, daughter of the late Foundress of Birthright—also Louise. It would be almost impossible to calculate the number of times those same words have been repeated over phones since they were first spoken by Louise Summerhill Sr. in a small rented office in [...]
First came the United Nations decade of the woman. Then there was the year of the child. Now the family holds the spotlight as the member countries of the United Nations proclaims year 1994 the Year of the Family. But some people interested in the future of the family are withholding their joy at this recognition by the international body. Long experience [...]
A new law submitted to the Chinese parliament aims to eliminate the “genetically impure” from the country’s population. The ominous new law, which will no doubt gain the government’s rubber-stamp approval, seeks to limit, through abortion and sterilization, new births of “inferior quality.” The drafted legislation states that “pregnant women who have been diagnosed as having certain infectious diseases or an abnormal [...]