Who are the Nobel prize winners who promoted the idea of infanticide of handicapped babies? P.N. Vancouver B.C. Two Nobel laureates are on record for expressing support for infanticide, though they avoided using that term. In May 1973, James Watson, of DNA fame, stated: “If a child were declared not alive until three days after birth, then all parents could be allowed [...]
Looking at some news stories in Ontario causes me to wonder-and worry-about the future facing disabled persons. Toronto Star columnist Thomas Walkom recently wrote about the plight of one Ontario family in the wake of welfare cutbacks. Matthew Jensen is an eight year old with severe autism who cannot speak feed or dress himself. Matthew is fed through a tube inserted directly [...]
The Consent to Treatment Act (which came into force on April 3, 1995) sets out conditions under which Health Practitioners (HPs) are permitted to administer treatment to patients. (The term Health Practitioner includes: school doctors, nurses and psychologists; public health nurses, and doctors and nurses on staff at birth-control centres and abortion clinics.) Although one of the main purposes of the Act [...]
Discussion following the recent memorial service for Nazi victims raised two questions: who was the US physician at the Nuremberg trials of Nazi doctors; how did he link the euthanasia movement with their crimes? M.J.S. Ottawa Dr. Leo Alexander, psychiatrist of Tufts Medical School, was the U.S. expert who drafted the Nuremberg Code of Medical Ethics used in the trial of Nazi [...]
Those who follow the workings of the various anti-population organizations have long feared the possibility of an anti-human vaccination. These fears may now have been realized with the discovery of an anti-tetanus vaccine, administered by the World Health Organization, which may have destroyed the fertility of millions in the Third World. Several pro-life agencies, including Human Life International and International Right to [...]
st people have contemplated what might happen to them if they were injured in a car accident and ended up in a coma. Geoff Cauchi completes the second part of his series on the role Ontario’s new Consent and Treatment legislation would play should this situation arise and suggests that you shouldn’t sign a Power of Attorney without proper pro-life medical and [...]
Evil “Indifference to evil strengthens evil.” Elie Wiesel, in an interview to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, (CBC’s Prime Time Magazine, January 25, 1995.) Stopping the plague “It’s a plague that exploits, degrades and inflicts violence on children, women, men and families. It is an evil that contributes to the inter-related problems of sexual violence, child victimization, child [...]
A young man rises above his Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. Studies show many social drinkers may worry too much about the possibility of F.A.S. Paul, who turned 25 on his last birthday, is a delightful young man. When he comes home for the weekend, he fills our house with his talented piano playing and is always ready for a game of cards. Paul [...]
Surviving pre-natal prejudice The past ten years have seen huge advancements in the technology of pre-natal testing. Doctors are now able to detect a wide variety of abnormalities during very early stages of pregnancy. Increasingly, parents are opting for abortion instead of taking on the physical, emotional and financial obligations associated with caring for special needs children. No one, not even organizations [...]
As you are going to be in England and Portugal this winter, why not comment on what is happening in the pro-life area there? Toronto: CLC members. My Portuguese is not even basic, but so much is happening in Britain that it is hard to choose. Here are three stories. “Wrong Sex” Abortion On March 2, 1994, an inquest was opened in [...]
“When people die, my name doesn’t go on it.” This is how Suzanne Scorsone, a member of the Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies, sums up how she decided which of its recommendations to disagree with. The Commission submitted its final report to the federal government last November. Just before Christmas, Dr. Scorsone spoke to the Interim about her work on the [...]
What exactly are human embryos? The Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies was forced to consider this question for a very basic reason: part of its mandate was to decide what to do about embryo research. There has been a decided push in the last several years to encourage public acceptance of experimentation on human embryos. Ever since In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) [...]
When the Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies was formed by the federal Progressive Conservative government four years ago, its mandate was to investigate the baby-making industry in Canada, to listen to the concerns raised by both experts and ordinary people, and give the politicians a guide on how to form public policy in an area which has been allowed to expand [...]
Good news? Now fetal tissue can be used to treat a range of diseases once thought incurable. Andrew Kimbrell reported the news this way in The Human Body Shop: Despite controversy over their effectiveness, fetal transplant operations are expected to continue and increase over the next few years. In fact, according to many in the medical community, Parkinson’s and diabetes are just [...]
Recent reports in the press and on the radio have raised many questions about cloning human embryos. What is meant by “cloning”? The term “cloning,” which applies to plants and animals as well as humans, comes from the Greek word for “two.’ One definition for human cloning is “the production, from one cell, of two (or more) different individuals with identical genetic [...]