Bioethics Articles

Council of Europe debates ethics in fetal experiments

October 21, 1985|Comments Off on 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

October 21, 1985|Comments Off on 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

October 21, 1985|Comments Off on Inaccurate spina bifida test

    John Jenkinson, whose British parents were advised to abort him when a prenatal blood test showed he had [...]

Alternate Medicine List

October 20, 1985|Comments Off on Alternate Medicine List

    The following is a list of alternate brands.   UPJOHN BRAND                          ALTERNATE MEDICINE                       Kaopectate…...                                               Pepto [...]

Upjohn boycott

October 20, 1985|Comments Off on 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

September 16, 1985|Comments Off on 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

August 14, 1985|Comments Off 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

August 14, 1985|Comments Off on 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 [...]

Natural family planning: why and what

August 14, 1985|Comments Off on Natural family planning: why and what

Natural Family Planning is not simply “a better form of birth control.” Behind NFP lies an integral vision of the [...]

Quebec: Fetal experimentation

June 8, 1985|Comments Off on Quebec: Fetal experimentation

       A recent medical journal article out of Sherbrooke, Quebec, details the fact that fetal experimentation has not [...]

Artificial Insemination

April 7, 1985|Comments Off on Artificial Insemination

      Artificial Insemination (AI) is he placing of semen inside a women’s vagina, or directly into the uterus [...]

Birth defects

April 7, 1985|Comments Off on Birth defects

    A U.S. federal judge ruled that a widely-used spermicide caused birth defects in a 3 year old girl [...]