Bioethics Articles
Halifax hospital starts fetal transplants
Last December 13, the first fetal tissue transplant in Canada for Parkinson’s Disease took place at the Victoria General Hospital [...]
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How many abortions are performed worldwide each year? L.A., Vancouver No one really knows. The most recent ‘guesstimate’ I have [...]
Man/mouse hybrids
Viral scientists have begun to transplant “functionally complete” organs from aborted babies into mice for the purpose of laboratory experiments [...]
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Supposing information from embryonic experiments proved to be useful, would it be ethical to us it? M.P., Toronto, Ontario. It [...]
Fetal-cell transfer disappointing
The British Medical Journal reports that "More patients have probably been harmed than helped so far" by the treatment of [...]
Web of science tightening around life
The following is an extract from the oral comments made by Wendy McNeeley, president of Campaign Life Coalition/ British Columbia, [...]
Reproductive Commission in B.C.
The Royal Commission on Reproductive Technology heard briefs from many individuals during its four days of hearings in Vancouver. The [...]
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What is meant by ‘organic farming’? L.W., Toronto This is a development which some scientists see as a part of [...]
IVF parents facing the wrong direction
Dr. Donald Demarco presented a brief to the Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies in Toronto on November 20, 1990. [...]
The day they made me look
For most of the past 15 years, registered nurse Lorraine Keess has worked in the general and pediatric wards of [...]
Pro-life Conference aims to influence European medical policies
From September 7 to 9, the city of Slavonski Brod, in Croatian Yugoslavia, was the site of a conference on [...]
U.S. Update Fetal experiments halted in Illinois
Attorneys of Chicago’s Pro-Life Action League filed an appeal with the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals against an April lower [...]
Gift of life not respected
Test-tube baby clinics in Britain are putting women at risk of having babies born dead or severely handicapped because of [...]
Bill to ban human guinea pigs
Early in 1989 the Duke of Norfolk, premier Duke and Earl Marshall of England, introduced a bill in Parliament which [...]
Euthanasia: withdrawing the staff of life
As we saw in our last article, food and water are being routinely withheld from seriously ill patients – not [...]