Pro-life and religious groups and opposition parties generally praised the House of Commons Health Committee's recommendations on reproductive and experimental technologies, but condemned its support for the destruction of human embryos for research purposes. The committee, while opposed to the creation of embryos for the purpose of research, would permit licensed researchers to use so-called surplus embryos from fertility treatment (in vitro [...]
Douglas Johnson, the legislative director of the Washington D.C.-based National Right to Life Committee, would likely agree with the ancient Chinese philosopher Confucius, who said that when words lose their meaning, people lose their liberty. Johnson told The Interim he is upset by the "smokescreen of euphemisms," created by the powerful, well-funded biotech lobby to justify the cloning of human embryos for [...]
Adult stem cells cure sickle cell patient PITTSBURGH, Pa. - Keone Penn was diagnosed with sickle cell, a genetic blood disease, at six months of age. He suffered a stroke at five and was in and out of hospitals until he was 11 to receive blood transfusions; doctors expected him to die by 20. When he was 15, the University of Pittsburgh's [...]
End support for RU-486 trials, says Unity Party VICTORIA, B.C. - Noting that the Liberal government of Gordon Campbell is seeking ways to reduce spending, B.C. Unity Party leader Chris Delaney called upon the government to cease its financial support for clinical trials of the abortion drug RU-486. Following the announcement last year that a Canadian woman had died during the second [...]
British court rejects appeal for assisted suicide LONDON - The House of Lords rejected an appeal by Dianne Pretty, a 47-year-old British woman suffering from motor neurone disease, who asked the courts to allow her husband to assist in her suicide without facing criminal charges. The appeal was dismissed unanimously with the law lords saying that human rights legislation, on which grounds [...]
I've had the honor of writing about Advertising Standards Canada in the past. This wonderfully Canadian group, which carries out its self-proclaimed mandate in secret, was the focus of a story dealing with a newspaper ad documenting the wonderful antics of North American abortionists who kill unborn children then proudly sell off their body parts. A complaint was filed by Joyce Arthur [...]