One of the United States’ most repressive anti-demonstrating laws has now been declared unconstitutional by two U.S. judges. In Milwaukee, U.S. District Judge Rudolph T. Randa ruled that the 1994 Freedom to Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE) was unconstitutional. The judge declared that the part of the law which bans “nonviolent, physical obstruction of reproductive health services clinics is unconstitutional,” noting [...]
A boy is born with no hands; a girl with one foot. A British professor believes that these children are victims of Chorionic Villi Sampling – a “search and destroy” prenatal test. A prenatal test introduced about 10 years ago, and taken by women to ensure that their babies were safe from Down Syndrome and other genetic abnormalities, is being blamed for [...]
I was told at the time of the Cairo Conference that a Vatican statement on abortion had warned that governments could impose contraception and abortion on people. Is there such a warning? A.P. Ontario In fact such a warning was given six years before the Vatican Declaration on Abortion. In 1968, the encyclical Humane Vitae (On Human Life),after discussing and condemning abortifacients, [...]
Last September, in an article entitles “Relieving an adopted child’s anxiety,” The Interim reviewed a number of children’s books on adoption. Most were for young readers. The following will take a child into her teen years. While many adopted children fantasize about their birth parents Princess Alice by Nina Bawden, Andre Deutsch Ltd. 1995, turns the fantasy into reality. Alice actually does [...]
st people have contemplated what might happen to them if they were injured in a car accident and ended up in a coma. Geoff Cauchi completes the second part of his series on the role Ontario’s new Consent and Treatment legislation would play should this situation arise and suggests that you shouldn’t sign a Power of Attorney without proper pro-life medical and [...]
Halifax. In December the Victoria General Hospital announced an expansion of its fetal brain tissue transplant program. Begun in 1991, it involves transplanting living fetal brain tissue into the brains of selected patients with Parkinson’s Disease. Cells from several fetuses are needed for each injection. Implanted fetal tissue survived and slowed progression of the disease in the test patients, reports Dr. Bernard [...]
A law which would allow Oregon doctors to administer lethal doses to end the lives of terminally ill patients remains on hold. Last November, this law, which would have been the first of its kind in North America, was narrowly approved by Oregon voters. However concerned citizens, including National Right to Life, have challenged the law as unconstitutional, claiming that that it [...]
Nine years ago a Decima Research Poll, published in Maclean’s magazine showed that for an “overwhelming” majority of adult Canadians, 81 per cent of them, the family was by far the most important part of their lives. Moreover, it found that “Canadians are turning inward to families and careers in search of personal rewards.” Decima executive Bruce Anderson noted that many were [...]
As last summer approached, I anticipated it with a certain dread: it was my turn to go “over the hill.” And indeed, I did turn forty. Fortunately, I have remained friends with several women since grade school, and we were all in it together. Each of us delighted in remembering the others’ birthdays and sending condolences. It was really pretty funny until [...]