Bioethics Articles
Doctors of conscience unwanted
Laying Down the Lawton Andrew Lawton If you want to practice medicine, leave your beliefs at the door. [...]
Brave new world of CRISPR babies
National Affairs Rory Leishman Despite the intense controversy over the birth last November of the world’s first gene-altered [...]
Canadian Cancer Society supports embryonic stem cell research
The Canadian Cancer Society remains committed to funding human embryonic stem cell research despite great advances in adult stem cell [...]
Bill Nye, the science betrayal guy
Television personality Bill Nye chooses politics over science. A generation grew up on the Emmy-winning TV show Bill [...]
Demands for Canada’s fertility laws to be re-examined
In a position statement released on May 11 concerning sections six and seven of the 2004 Assisted Human Reproduction Act, [...]
The deVeber Institute hosts symposium on medical ethics
Jean Echlin (third from right) with Campaign Life Coalition summer students at the deVeber Institute seminar. Just less [...]
Pro-lifers reject notion that Zika virus justifies abortion
As the Centers for Disease Control said April 13 that the Zika virus can cause microcephaly and other birth defects, [...]
Quebec study illustrates need for baby born-alive law
Bioethicist John Haas clarifies church teaching on extraordinary medical care. A Quebec study showing a 20-fold increase since [...]
deVeber memoir delights, inspires
Few Canadians have been more widely revered for a lifetime of benevolent accomplishments than Dr. L.L. (Barrie) deVeber, professor emeritus [...]
Ethical alternative to embryonic stem cells discovered
Scientists have discovered a new kind of stem cell. In the Dec. 10 issue of Nature, a group of international [...]
First American human clone created
Wesley Smith questions the claim that cloning technology will not be used for reproduction. For the first time, [...]
Nobel prize for ‘ethical’ alternative to embryonic stem cells
The man who discovered induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) has received the 2012 Nobel Prize for medicine. Dr. Shinya Yamanaka, [...]
Ottawa files argument in euthanasia appeal
Justice Lynn Smith The federal government has come out strongly against assisted suicide in an appeal against a [...]
Problems with “embryo-like” stem cells
Toronto scientists at Mount Sinai Hospital have discovered problems in using reprogrammed stem cells for personalized organ repair. “It looks [...]
Genetically selected embryo to save siblings
Interim Staff On Feb. 7, doctors in France announced that the country’s first “saviour sibling” was born. Popularly termed a [...]