Bioethics Articles
Supreme Court rejects sterilization for handicapped
Court-ordered contraceptive sterilization of the mentally-handicapped should become unknown in Canada following a Supreme Court of Canada ruling [...]
Update
Grief group for stillborn Winnipeg – Social worker Susan Dolinski and nursing director Jackie Phils have formed a “grief group” [...]
Parliament hears both sides of abortion issue
Four Private Members’ bills to amend Section 251 of the Criminal Code have received first reading in the House of [...]
Some new and increasing threats
A discussion paper given in Winnipeg at the Annual Directors’ Meeting of Campaign Life Canada – October 1986. Dr. Everett [...]
Doctors say, unborn will get legal rights
Doctors and ethicists say that unborn babies have “moral value,” and predict that babies in late stages of gestation will [...]
Inquest on Erin Shannon’s death – Jury recommendations
The recommendations of the jury were as follows: In view of the fact that Amniotic Fluid Embolism “is a rare [...]
Planned Parenthood and Father Paul Marx
Father Paul Marx, Catholic Priest and founder of Human Life International, reports the following item in a report printed as [...]
Catching up – International
London – Nurses should notify police, said a British Catholic Bishops’ committee on bio-ethical issues, when they find handicapped newborn [...]
No ethics in “Choices”
On February 17, ABC aired a made-for-television movie called “Choices,” which treaded the issue of abortion. “Choices” is packed full [...]
Segregating newborn babies
In the early morning hours of July 17, 1984, when John Carroll was told that his newborn daughter had Spina [...]
Embryo experimentation and the Indian rope trick
Despite overwhelming support from MPs in the House of Commons, and from people across the United Kingdom, Enoch Powell’s Unborn [...]
Alberta: Controversy surrounds ethics symposium
In October, the University of Calgary Faculty of Medicine hosted a major symposium on “Human Embryo Experimentation and Childhood Cancer: [...]
New Brunswick: Moncton Clinic sidesteps parents’ rights in issuing the pill to teenagers
The Moncton Hospital’s Reproductive Clinic is prescribing the birth control pill and, in some cases, a “morning after” pill to [...]
Birth Control Victims Association
It has been 10 years since I first decided the IUD was the best possible form of birth control. The [...]
Value judgements and kidney dialysis
It seems that the “quality of life” ethic now encompasses more groups of people than the “unwanted” unborn, handicapped and [...]