Liberal MP Paul Szabo (Mississauga South), an outspoken and active pro-life parliamentarian, has written a book on The Ethics and Science of Stem Cells. Szabo told The Interim he wrote the book "To promote discussion among parliamentarians and the public about this very important and timely topic." It was distributed to all MPs and senators and is available to anyone who requests [...]
It has been tried and tested, has failed every time, and yet we still insist on trying it again. Xenotransplantation, or animal to human transplantation, may sound very beneficial, but there are many controversial issues surrounding it. There is no mystery as to why. xenotransplantation has not been in the news only recently. In 1964, six patients received kidney transplants from chimpanzees. [...]
Third World de-population has been U.S. strategic policy since '74 Top-secret files recently declassified from the National Archives of Australia, despite government opposition, has revealed that one of the fathers of modern biotechnology and genetic engineering advocated using biological weapons against Indonesia and other "overpopulated" countries of South-East Asia. Australia's The Age reports that world-famous microbiologist Sir Macfarlane Burnet recommended in a [...]
The announcement that the Canadian Institutes for Health Research will fund embryonic stem cell research is bad enough, because such experimentation depends upon the destruction of tiny human beings at their earliest stage of development. There can be no forgetting this abomination. But the problem is made worse when an agency of the federal government, run by unelected bureaucrats, makes laws on [...]
LifeSite News Famed Canadian singer Celine Dion has revealed that she is intending to implant the frozen embryo she had created through in-vitro fertilization. In an announcement on ABC's 20/20, Dion revealed that she is returning to the stage next year, performing five nights a week for three years at Caesar's Palace hotel in Las Vegas for a reported $100 million. After [...]
A recent episode of the CBS prime-time legal drama Family Law explored the controversial subject of stem cells. Titled "Arlene's Choice," the program's lawyers represent a mother five months pregnant who wants to induce delivery early. She wants to obtain stem cells from her newborn to save the life of her eight-year-old son, who is dying of aplastic anemia. However, the baby [...]
Dolly the sheep is the poster child for cloning. But researchers are now discovering flaws in what appeared to be a huge success – the five-year-old sheep has developed arthritis in early middle age. The diagnosis was announced in January after the animal began to limp. "We have no way of knowing whether this is due to cloning or not," said Ian [...]
‘The best pro-life news I've heard in 13 years,' says pro-life leader The province of Quebec has announced a ban on all destructive research involving human embryos. David Cliche, Quebec's minister of state for science and technology, unveiled new guidelines on ethical research Jan. 10 in which the creation and use of stem cells extracted from human embryos (resulting in the death [...]
Pro-life and religious groups and opposition parties generally praised the House of Commons Health Committee's recommendations on reproductive and experimental technologies, but condemned its support for the destruction of human embryos for research purposes. The committee, while opposed to the creation of embryos for the purpose of research, would permit licensed researchers to use so-called surplus embryos from fertility treatment (in vitro [...]
Douglas Johnson, the legislative director of the Washington D.C.-based National Right to Life Committee, would likely agree with the ancient Chinese philosopher Confucius, who said that when words lose their meaning, people lose their liberty. Johnson told The Interim he is upset by the "smokescreen of euphemisms," created by the powerful, well-funded biotech lobby to justify the cloning of human embryos for [...]
Under the proposed Canadian legislation governing assisted human reproduction, a person may be permitted to engage in the following activities provided he or she possesses a licence to do so under the authority of the minister of Health, and provided that he or she has obtained the necessary legally valid informed consent of the relevant person(s). To create an embryo. To create [...]
In recent months, the U.S. House of Representatives has banned all human cloning. So has Russia. France and Germany have called for an international ban on such practices. The United Kingdom, even though it allows the grisly practice of therapeutic cloning, banned reproductive human cloning last year. In fact, 23 countries have fully or partially banned human cloning. Yet Canada's Health Minister, [...]
Pro-life Canadians could be forgiven for thinking that a combination between the Liberal Party and the Communist Party of Canada had recently co-opted the Canadian Alliance. First, on August 28, the Globe and Mail reported that Alliance MP Keith Martin was advocating for-profit surrogacy. Three days later, former Alliance leader Preston Manning was quoted in the National Post supporting experimentation on human [...]
What does the current debate over stem cells have to do with the concentration camps at places like Auschwitz and Dachau? More than you might think. When Allied troops liberated the few remaining prisoners of the Nazi concentration camps, they made some horrific discoveries. Among the records that survived of the gassings, burnings and shootings of millions of 'undesirables,' were graphic descriptions [...]
Ask the average person, "What do you think of embryonic stem cell research?" He may answer with certainty and a profound conviction that what he is saying is most obvious: "Look, anything that can cure Alzheimer's, Parkinson's or diabetes is incredibly good. Yes, I know that there's some controversy - you're not going to try to tell me those embryonic cells are [...]