Last December 13, the first fetal tissue transplant in Canada for Parkinson’s Disease took place at the Victoria General Hospital (VGH) in Halifax. Parkinson’s is a neurological disorder characterized by loss of motor functions and coordination; it affects about 70,000 people in Canada, most of them over age 50. The transplant of fetal tissue from an aborted child into an adult brain [...]
How many abortions are performed worldwide each year? L.A., Vancouver No one really knows. The most recent ‘guesstimate’ I have seen is 70 million, but the number could be much higher. Added to these abortions are the very early abortions caused by abortifacients such as Intra-Uterine Devices (IUDs) and birth-control pills; it is suggested that these could triple the 70 million. Does [...]
Viral scientists have begun to transplant “functionally complete” organs from aborted babies into mice for the purpose of laboratory experiments states The Christian World Report for July/August 1991. Dr. David Baltimore, President of the Rockfeller University in New York, is quoted as saying: “The mouse/human hybrids offer the opportunity to look at viruses without having to deal with human beings.” Conspirators? A [...]
Supposing information from embryonic experiments proved to be useful, would it be ethical to us it? M.P., Toronto, Ontario. It is useful to look at a similar case. While doing post-graduate work in Arctic Studies in the 1950’s, I had access to accounts of the Nazi doctors’ experiments on the effects of cold on the human body. The victims, stark naked, were [...]
The British Medical Journal reports that "More patients have probably been harmed than helped so far" by the treatment of Parkinson's disease that involves the transplanting of cells, including cells taken from aborted fetuses. In an article dated August 11, 1990, Adrian Williams, Professor of Clinical Neurology at the University of Birmingham thinks the treatment is still experimental. Technical problems When cells [...]
The following is an extract from the oral comments made by Wendy McNeeley, president of Campaign Life Coalition/ British Columbia, to the Royal Commission on Reproductive Technology. "Before I had considered what I wanted to say today, I was saddened by the number of people who all told me that this commission was an utter waste of time. Waste of time "It [...]
The Royal Commission on Reproductive Technology heard briefs from many individuals during its four days of hearings in Vancouver. The questions and comments of the commission members sometimes revealed their biases, but they acted professionally, said Ted Gerk, member of the Board of Directors of B.C. Pro-Life Society. Tainted The whole proceedings were tainted by the brief submitted by Dr. Steven Genus [...]
What is meant by ‘organic farming’? L.W., Toronto This is a development which some scientists see as a part of the ‘Brave New World.’ It is suggested that human beings could be developed for their ‘spare parts’. Women would be paid to have babies which would be aborted in order that they be cannibalized when doctors ‘harvested’ their organs—heart, liver, pancreas, etc. [...]
Dr. Donald Demarco presented a brief to the Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies in Toronto on November 20, 1990. Because of time restrictions on that occasion, he has been given space in The Interim to expand and clarify his remarks to two of the Commissioners, Maureen McTeer and Grace Jantzen. Disease and desire Ms. McTeer stated that one of the chief [...]
For most of the past 15 years, registered nurse Lorraine Keess has worked in the general and pediatric wards of Calgary hospitals. She is the mother of a boy, nine, and a girl, three, and the wife of a city businessman. A year ago last month, she took a job in the pathology laboratory of a hospital which performs abortions. Until then, [...]
From September 7 to 9, the city of Slavonski Brod, in Croatian Yugoslavia, was the site of a conference on the Future of Medicine in Europe. The goal of this conference was to help shape medical ethics and policy in the emerging countries of Eastern Europe along pro-life and Christian lines. It was attended by several hundred East European doctors, nurses, other [...]
Attorneys of Chicago’s Pro-Life Action League filed an appeal with the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals against an April lower court decision permitting any form of fetal experimentation. Stated League director Joseph Scheidler: “If this decision were not appealed, Dr. Mengele-type of experimentation on live human subjects would be allowed to be performed on unborn children. A civilized society cannot allow such [...]
Test-tube baby clinics in Britain are putting women at risk of having babies born dead or severely handicapped because of the dangers of multiple pregnancies, the London Sunday Times reported on December 10, 1989. Some centres offering a new technique called FIGT are transferring as many as five or six eggs to a woman to increase her chances of a successful pregnancy. [...]
Early in 1989 the Duke of Norfolk, premier Duke and Earl Marshall of England, introduced a bill in Parliament which would outlaw the use of human embryos as guinea pigs for experimentation and vivisection. The Bill had its Second Reading in the House of Lords in March 1989. The Glover Report During the debate Lord Henley, saying that he spoke for the [...]
As we saw in our last article, food and water are being routinely withheld from seriously ill patients – not all of them terminally ill – in Canadian hospitals. Is this right? Can withdrawing nutrition (or failing to initiate it) ever be justified? There are two major schools of thought on this matter, and two minor ones. To take the major ones [...]