Bioethics Articles
What’s wrong with Tyrell Dueck’s ‘belief system’?
By now, most Interim readers will have heard about young Tyrell Dueck of Saskatchewan. A judge ordered the 13-year-old bone cancer [...]
HYPOCRITICAL OATHS
Reciting the ancient Hippocratic Oath was once the high point of any medical school convocation. Now, the noble pledge of [...]
Cash for sterilization
A recent press report has disturbing inplications for all concerned with the sanctity of human life. The report described efforts [...]
God’s workshop: on test tube babies and cloning
The Catholic Church and Christian tradition teach that sexual intercourse belongs only within the bond of marriage. Marriage is a [...]
Medical group reacts to cloning plan
BRISTOL, Tenn. (LSN) -- The Christian Medical and Dental Society, which represents more than 11,500 doctors and medical students nationwide, [...]
Rock in no hurry with NRT law
Federal Health Minister Allan Rock has reiterated the need for careful federal regulation in the area of new reproductive and [...]
Sterilization scandal rocks Sweden
STOCKHOLM - Sweden's most influential opposition leader demanded August 26 that the government investigate a four-decade policy under which 60,000 [...]
Breast cancer conference derailed
KINGSTON There were theatrics, debate and emotion and a Global Action Plan. More than 500 people from around the world [...]
Human cloning a frightening scenario
“Let s make man in our image, after our likeness,” said Almighty God in Chapter 17 Genesis. Now, “Clone-Aid” – [...]
Panel examines implications of Bill C-47
OTTAWA – “Our future children”, an examination of the consequences of Bill C-47, was the theme of a seminar organized [...]
Disturbing creation: cloning’s dark side
The latest breakthrough in genetic engineering, the successful cloning of an adult mammal, carries with it the disturbing possibility that [...]
You Were Asking?
Is there any reliable information about the numbers of human embryos that are frozen or used for experiments in Canada [...]
Bioethics under review
Interim special Reform party M.P. Sharon Hayes and St. Jerome's College philosophy professor Dr. Donald DeMarco are two central speakers [...]
You were asking?
Is it true that the American Medical Association (AMA) has approved the removal of vital organs, e.g. the heart, from [...]
Canadian law coming to terms with IVF research
Although there had been worldwide shock and dismay over the recent destruction in England of 3,300 (or more) abandoned embryos [...]