Bioethics Articles
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 [...]
Council of Europe debates ethics in fetal experiments
Rumours have circulated for some time that human embryos from abortions are being sold to industrial [...]
Cancer and fetal x-ray
Exposing an unborn child to x-rays more than doubles the chance that the child will contract cancer before [...]
Inaccurate spina bifida test
John Jenkinson, whose British parents were advised to abort him when a prenatal blood test showed he had [...]
A funny thing happened on the way to the Toronto School Board
Three years ago, in 1982, a large number of parents and parent groups approached the Toronto [...]
Alternate Medicine List
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Upjohn boycott
Delegates at the recent annual general meeting of Alliance for Life passed a resolution urging all Canadian pro-lifers [...]
Appalling news from Britain’s labs
In Britain, experimentation on dead aborted babies and on “spare” embryos created by in vitro fertilization has been going on [...]
DPT vaccine causes concern
The Canadian medical establishment has consistently told parents that benefits of immunization far outweigh any risks that may be associated [...]
Sterilization and the mentally retarded
Involuntary sterilization of the mentally retarded is stirring bitter controversy and resentment among mentally handicapped people. The recent sterilization of [...]