Bioethics Articles
US university harvests organs from living babies
Oswald Clark and Paul Tuns: The Center for Medical Progress and Judicial Watch announced on August 3 that they had [...]
Vaccines: Kenney vows choice, bishops sow confusion
By Interim Staff Health Canada has approved four vaccines against COVID-19: Moderna, Pfizer, AstraZeneca, and Johnson & Johnson. Moderna and [...]
Follow your conscience
Now that COVID-19 vaccinations are being made available across the country, Canadians find themselves facing important personal decisions about whether [...]
Nearly three decade-old embryo born
By Interim Staff An embryo created by in-vitro fertilization in 1992 and subsequently frozen, was successfully implanted into her (surrogate) [...]
Doctors of conscience unwanted
Laying Down the Lawton Andrew Lawton If you want to practice medicine, leave your beliefs at the door. [...]
Brave new world of CRISPR babies
National Affairs Rory Leishman Despite the intense controversy over the birth last November of the world’s first gene-altered [...]
Canadian Cancer Society supports embryonic stem cell research
The Canadian Cancer Society remains committed to funding human embryonic stem cell research despite great advances in adult stem cell [...]
Bill Nye, the science betrayal guy
Television personality Bill Nye chooses politics over science. A generation grew up on the Emmy-winning TV show Bill [...]
Demands for Canada’s fertility laws to be re-examined
In a position statement released on May 11 concerning sections six and seven of the 2004 Assisted Human Reproduction Act, [...]
The deVeber Institute hosts symposium on medical ethics
Jean Echlin (third from right) with Campaign Life Coalition summer students at the deVeber Institute seminar. Just less [...]
Pro-lifers reject notion that Zika virus justifies abortion
As the Centers for Disease Control said April 13 that the Zika virus can cause microcephaly and other birth defects, [...]
Quebec study illustrates need for baby born-alive law
Bioethicist John Haas clarifies church teaching on extraordinary medical care. A Quebec study showing a 20-fold increase since [...]
deVeber memoir delights, inspires
Few Canadians have been more widely revered for a lifetime of benevolent accomplishments than Dr. L.L. (Barrie) deVeber, professor emeritus [...]
Ethical alternative to embryonic stem cells discovered
Scientists have discovered a new kind of stem cell. In the Dec. 10 issue of Nature, a group of international [...]
First American human clone created
Wesley Smith questions the claim that cloning technology will not be used for reproduction. For the first time, [...]