Same-sex 'marriage' Without a doubt, the biggest news story of 2003 is the June 10 Ontario Superior Court decision granting marriage rights to homosexual couples. This decision, in which three judges ignored millennia of tradition and replaced the law with their personal wishes, has serious implications for the family, our society, national politics and the future of our democracy. The first and [...]
The reason that the ALS Society of Canada, and other like-minded organizations, want the government to approve Bill C-13 is so that the Canadian Institutes of Health Research will fund pharmaceutical companies to do such research on human embryos using taxpayers' money. These pharmaceutical companies are eager for taxpayer dollars, too. But the fact that they are eager for government money highlights [...]
After the recent passing of Bill C-13 in the House of Commons and all the controversy that went along with it, human cloning has been a prominent issue on the minds of Canadians for the past year. The government of Canada has also had to discuss cloning at the international level, since France and Germany put the topic on the General Assembly [...]
The pro-life movement is constantly reminded of the importance of being vigilant in monitoring what is put before our children in the name of education. A new threat is coming from Canada's largest university on the topic of embryonic stem cell research, just as we see the fall of Bill C-13. The Joint Centre for Bioethics at the University of Toronto has [...]
But future of bill is in doubt as Senate prorogues On Oct. 28, the House of Commons passed Bill C-13, the federal government's long-delayed and fundamentally flawed reproductive and experimental technologies legislation, by a vote of 149-109. Liberal backbencher Paul Szabo (Mississauga South), who spearheaded efforts to stop the bill and who has studied the issue probably more than any other elected [...]
Delegates from around the world met at the UN Sept. 29 to Oct. 3. They were charged with the task of drafting an international ban on human cloning. But they didn't get that far. In fact, they couldn't even get started. The members of the working group of the Sixth Committee, the committee of the United Nations General Assembly that handles international [...]
Delegates from around the world met at the UN Sept. 29 to Oct. 3. They were charged with the task of drafting an international ban on human cloning. But they didn't get that far. In fact, they couldn't even get started. The members of the working group of the Sixth Committee, the committee of the United Nations General Assembly that handles international [...]
Bill C-13, An Act Respecting Human Reproduction and Related Technologies, hangs in limbo as the federal government seems unsure of whether it has enough support to get it passed. As a sign of its desperation to enact the reproductive technologies legislation, the government has indicated that the vote will not be a free one. It has also suggested to Liberal MP Paul [...]
Life, Liberty and the Defense of Dignity: The Challenge for Bioethics By Leon R. Kass M.D. (Encounter Books, 313 pgs $39.50) Two hundred years ago, the poet William Wordsworth assessed the human condition, asking: "Have I not reason to lament/ What man has made of man?" At the dawn of the third millennium, technology has the human condition itself within its power; [...]
British pro-life campaigners are critical of a High Court ruling that has awarded compensation to a couple because their daughter was born with Down syndrome. The ruling, handed down by Mr. Justice Morland, suggests that a doctor's strong Catholic faith influenced his treatment of a patient, as well as his failure to send her for an amniocentesis test. Dr. George Tse Sak [...]
Researchers in China have announced the successful creation of animal-human chimeras which have survived till the blastocyst stage - at which point they can extract stem cells. The study which is published in the current issue of the peer reviewed journal Cell Research notes that human skin cells were fused with rabbit ova which had their nuclei removed to produce the cloned [...]
Infertility has become an epidemic in the Western world. One out of six couples are seeking some sort of medical intervention to help them conceive. This has led to an explosion in the use of in-vitro fertilization by couples desperate to expand their families. It is estimated that over 40,000 "IVF babies" were born last year to satisfy their parents' desires to [...]
What is arguably the most influential medical journal in the world has announced that it will publish more studies on embryonic stem cell research in order to build more public support for such science. New England Journal of Medicine editor Dr. Jeffrey M. Drazen was quoted recently in the Boston Globe as saying that, "Nothing is better for a field than true [...]
The findings of a recent study conducted by the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal show an increase in the number of unborn children killed due to advanced methods of prenatal screening. A story appearing in a recent issue of The Medical Post quoted Dr. Surindra Maraj, a doctor at the hospital and a co- author of the study: "We knew ultrasound screening [...]
Soon after LifeSite News published an expose on The Arthritis Society, revealing a position paper and statements by TAS President and CEO Denis Morrice in support of funding embryonic stem cell research, the Knights of Columbus met with the charity The Knights of Columbus of Ontario, which has given the organization some $15 million, expressed its concerns to members of the TAS [...]