Bioethics Articles

April 7, 1985|Comments Off on

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

RU-486 abortion pill

April 7, 1985|Comments Off on RU-486 abortion pill

      The first “foolproof” abortion pill, called RU-486, is now in its final tests with the British Committee [...]

Selling babies is illegal in Canada

April 7, 1985|Comments Off on Selling babies is illegal in Canada

      Selling babies is illegal in Canada-perhaps. While there are laws which cover money changing hands in the [...]

Britain’s MP’s ban embryo experiments

April 7, 1985|Comments Off on Britain’s MP’s ban embryo experiments

            Private Member’s bills usually attract little attention, but Mr. Enoch Powell’s measure-the Unborn Children Protection Bill- [...]

Bits and pieces

March 7, 1985|Comments Off on Bits and pieces

    Two years ago I wrote my first column. It was for the first issue of The Interim and [...]

In Vitro M.D. ignores fetal tests

March 7, 1985|Comments Off on In Vitro M.D. ignores fetal tests

    Dr. David Armstrong, scientific director of the test-tube clinic at the University of Western Ontario, does not appear [...]

U of T contraceptives

March 6, 1985|Comments Off on U of T contraceptives

  A health-care package being planned by the University of Toronto’s Students’ Council is to include coverage for contraceptives.  Some [...]

Pro-life commentary on the prevention of Down’s syndrome through amniocentesis

February 3, 1985|Comments Off on Pro-life commentary on the prevention of Down’s syndrome through amniocentesis

                                             Genetic Counseling is that field of medicine which is involved in gathering genetic and family information in [...]

The Editorial: Slicing them open

January 30, 1985|Comments Off on The Editorial: Slicing them open

The recent disclosure that vaccines were produced from tissues of aborted babies had three main pro-life reactions: the immediate one [...]

The Abortion Pill

January 3, 1985|Comments Off on The Abortion Pill

  Canadian newspapers reported recently that next year the first “foolproof” birth control drug will be distributed in Europe.  “First [...]

Stop the world, I want to get off.

January 2, 1985|Comments Off on Stop the world, I want to get off.

        Oh boy!  Dull moments around here are about as plentiful as white blackbirds.   I returned [...]

Informed Dissent

January 2, 1985|Comments Off on Informed Dissent

      Conversations concerning the rubella vaccine and fetal experimentation in general have jammed our telephone during the last [...]

A Modest Proposal

January 2, 1985|Comments Off on A Modest Proposal

          In 1729, the Dean of St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin, Ireland, published an essay entitled A Modest [...]

Fetal Experiments – Canada

January 2, 1985|Comments Off on Fetal Experiments – Canada

    In 1979, the League for Life of Manitoba publicized fetal experiments conducted at Winnnipeg’s Health Sciences Centre in [...]