Bioethics Articles

The oath of medical ethics

May 22, 1983|Comments Off on The oath of medical ethics

If the physician presumes to take into consideration in his work whether a life has value or not, the consequences [...]

Court intervenes to save retarded child’s life

April 22, 1983|Comments Off on Court intervenes to save retarded child’s life

An exceptionally important case was decided by the Supreme Court of British Columbia on Friday, March 18, 1983, when it [...]

How do we know what is or is not living?

March 22, 1983|Comments Off on How do we know what is or is not living?

Well, for the last several decades, biologists, the true experts on the question of life (in the physical sense) have [...]

Biology: the signs of life

March 22, 1983|Comments Off on Biology: the signs of life

Of all the weak pro-abortion arguments; perhaps the weakest is the inability to admit that life begins at conception, that [...]

Canadian Medical Association questionnaire on abortion

March 19, 1983|Comments Off on Canadian Medical Association questionnaire on abortion

In 1971, the Canadian Medical Association in a close vote (78 to 74) stated that "there is justification on non-medical [...]