Bioethics Articles
Ethics and IVF: impossible dream
Repeated pro-life calls for a moratorium – or a halt – to in-vitro fertilization, have fallen on deaf ears. Answers [...]
Experimenting with living and aborted infants
The abortion horror is about to take a further gruesome turn. The special properties of foetal tissue make its use [...]
Nurses for Life
Many people question the ethics of nurses who are forced, or perhaps opt, to become involved with other medical professionals [...]
Experimentation with human embryos
Several scientists, associated with members of the medical profession, want to do experiments with early human embryos produced by fertilization [...]
Feminists oppose rent-a-womb
If you happened to have been down at Harbourfront in Toronto the last Thursday in May, you would have noticed [...]
Animal patents are dangerous precedent
The United States Government announced on April 16, 1987, that it is clearing the way for investors to patent new [...]
IVF … closed door and open windows
In January this year an In Vitro Fertilization clinic opened at Winnipeg’s Health Sciences Centre. This prompted meetings and considerable [...]
No condoms in Hamilton schools
Bishop Anthony Tonnos of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hamilton had rejected the idea that teaching students how to use [...]
“You are making a difference”
“Western society is at a crossroads: the crossroads of civilization, and a technological scientism in which people may be produced [...]
Explaining the contraceptive mentality
“It is ludicrous logic that causes them (the Doctors Billings’) to link abortion and contraception” wrote the pastor of Calgary’s [...]
Newfoundland women: a profile on abortion and contraception
Two recent studies by Newfoundland researchers show that single women undergoing abortion are both knowledgeable about contraceptives available to them [...]
Birth control clinics in North York schools
I’m reminded of a story circulating around Ottawa: A prisoner in Kingston Pen writes a letter to Prime Minister Brian [...]
Arizona State House keeps contraceptives out of schools
A bill, prohibiting Arizona schools from either distributing contraceptives, or from referring students to agencies that dispense birth control without [...]
Vatican defends marriage and human life before birth against technology
On March 10, 1987, the Vatican reaffirmed the special character of marriage and the dignity of human life before birth [...]
Contraceptive caused birth defects
In a precedent-setting decision, the U.S. Supreme Court has upheld a substantial damage award to a young girl whose birth [...]