Bioethics Articles
Charities supporting unethical stem cell research
Interim Staff The Interim is often asked which Canadian charities support embryonic stem cell research – research that destroys human [...]
Media conflate stem cell debate
Marketing experts understand the value of “branding,” the creation of a mental connection in the mind of a consumer between [...]
Latest stem cell deception
Interim Staff On August 23, Advanced Cell Technology, a private, Worcester, Mass.-based biotechnology firm, announced to the world that it [...]
Organ donation after cardiac death is raising ethical red flags
In a press conference at the Ottawa Hospital June 27, doctors announced the first-ever non-heart beating organ donation (NHBD) procedure [...]
U.S. sex selection service attracting Canadians
A prominent fertility doctor, who provides sex-selection of tourists’ embryos, considers himself to be working in “the happiest field in [...]
Canada to allow ‘fresh’ human embryos to be used for research
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) has announced that it will allow the creation of living human embryos specifically [...]
Bush’s stem cell veto
On July 19, 2006 days, George W. Bush used his veto power for the first time. The issue on which [...]
Can I interest you in body parts?
I was at the Ninth National March for life in Ottawa recently, walking along in front of the Parliament buildings, [...]
Bladders being grown from patients’ own cells
Tissue engineering breakthrough might be a solution to the organ donation shortage Complete urinary bladders grown from patients' own cells [...]
Legislative loophole allows sales of ova in Canada
Health Canada is not planning to take any action against the practice of selling human ova on the internet, despite [...]
‘Presumed consent’ organ donation looms in Ontario
On Feb. 16, Ontario New Democrat MPP and House Leader Peter Kormos introduced a private member’s bill that proposed to [...]
Ethics and organ donation
When you get to the bottom of the issue of organ donation, there are two main arguments used against pro-lifers [...]
Dr. Hwang Woo-Suk and the great Korean cloning caper
The spectacular rise and fall of maverick South Korean cloning “hero,” Professor Hwang Woo-Suk, a veterinarian and professor of biotechnology [...]
Don’t believe the stem cell hype
Paul Tuns and John-Henry Westen The Interim U.S. researchers and a sycophantic mainstream media are trumpeting the latest embryonic stem [...]
Health agency alters rules to make embryo research
LifeSiteNews.com Special to The Interim The Canadian Institutes of Health Research is the government body overseeing Canadian experiments in cloning [...]