Bioethics Articles
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 [...]
Giving away in-vitro babies
Many years ago there was a cartoon which showed a small boy looking at newly-born twins, and asking his father, [...]
Unborn babies for transplants Is it ethical?
Time magazine for April 3, 1989, carried an account of a historic fetal-cell transplant which may have saved a boy’s [...]
CMA deceives
Physicians for life has indicted the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) for consistently misrepresenting the true beliefs of Canada’s doctors with [...]
Update on Medical Ethics Removing organs without permission
Under pressure from advocates for the mentally retarded, Quebec has agreed to amend legislation that should have allowed removal of [...]
C.M.A. asked to reconsider
The Canadian Medical Association (CMA) Board of Directors approved the following three paragraphs at its meeting on May 21, 1988: [...]
Will Roussel market “killer pill”?
An abortion pill called a contra gestation pill may be marketed in Canada if abortion is not considered a criminal [...]