Aids Experiments On The Unborn Doctors in Florida and California plan to use 20 pre-born babies as guinea pigs to see whether the drug AZT, given to their AIDS-infected mothers, will prevent infection in the babies. A child born to an AIDS-infected mother has an approximately 50 per cent chance of being born with the virus. AZT is not a cure for [...]
No group of people have benefited the physical welfare of individuals as directly and extensively as the medical profession. Applying the technology advanced by other sciences, health care professionals have been able to lengthen lives, to shorten illness, to relieve pain, to give many people a “new lease on life,” from providing pacemakers for heart patients, to new limbs for accident victims, [...]
“Six months from now her baby would be born. Something that had been a single cell, a cluster of cells, a little sac of tissue, a kind of worm, a potential fish with gills, stirred in her womb and would one day become a man – a grown man, suffering and enjoying…. “…A thing would grow into a person, a tiny lump [...]
Rome: The Vatican has condemned the use of in vitro fertilization and in the Charter of Rights of the Family, put out by the Holy See, it stated that “human life must be absolutely respected and protected from the moment of conception.” The fact that 90% of babies “started” using the method of I.V.F., are never born, is proof enough that this [...]
West Germany: West Germany will introduce legislation limiting experimentation and banning any research that would “affect the dignity of the human race” said Justice Minister Hans Engenhard. Health Minister Rita Suessmuth said that Germany had a special responsibility to respond to such research in an exemplary way. She was referring to the Nazis who attempted to create the “Master Race.” This new [...]
The birth of Louise Brown the world’s first “test-tube” baby, in England in 1978, made headlines around the world, and Drs. Patrick Steptoe and Robert Edwards gained instant fame. However, they were not the only scientists who were experimenting in the filed of in-vitro fertilization (IVF). Australian scientists from the Queen Victoria Medical Centre and the Royal Women’s Hospital (associated with Monash [...]
The recent decision of the Medical Research Council (MRS) to allow experimentations in Canada on live human embryos up to 17 days gestation age, is but the latest episode of a running debate going back to July 1978. That date marks the birth of the first “test-tube baby” in Oldham, England. That birth triggered an unending and worldwide series of discussions and [...]
A recent survey, conducted for the Australian Doctor, showed that a number of doctors in New South Wales openly admit that they have performed abortions because the pre-born baby was “the wrong sex.” Margaret Tighe, Chairman of Right to Life Australia, called on the New South Wales Premier to seek prosecution of the doctors concerned. She stated: “Abortions are supposed to be [...]
Repeated pro-life calls for a moratorium – or a halt – to in-vitro fertilization, have fallen on deaf ears. Answers as to the impact of this technology will have on human society, lag far behind its growing use. “Baby Craving” has become big business according to a recent Life Magazine article, creating a huge demand for new baby-making techniques. Is it possible [...]
The abortion horror is about to take a further gruesome turn. The special properties of foetal tissue make its use attractive in the treatment of Parkinson’s disease and other nerve disorders. One of the most outspoken medical advocates for the use of foetal tissue is Dr. Robert Gale in California. Gale travelled to the Soviet Union where he attempted (in vain) to [...]
Many people question the ethics of nurses who are forced, or perhaps opt, to become involved with other medical professionals performing abortions. Among these, are nurses themselves, who are frightened that by refusing to assist this ghastly procedure they would jeopardize their jobs. “The destruction of human life is against morals and ethics.” This is the motto of Nurses for Life – [...]
Several scientists, associated with members of the medical profession, want to do experiments with early human embryos produced by fertilization outside the body (in vitro fertilization, or IVF). They have used arguments unacceptable to any scientist in trying to convince the public that these early embryos are not young human beings at all. They also claim that their investigations will contribute importantly [...]
If you happened to have been down at Harbourfront in Toronto the last Thursday in May, you would have noticed an interesting event taking place in the Brigantine Room a panel discussion on “Surrogate Motherhood.” Moderator Jeffrey Wilson, family layer and author of Children and the Law, introduced the topic and then invited each panelist to express his or her views. Interesting [...]
The United States Government announced on April 16, 1987, that it is clearing the way for investors to patent new forms of animal life through gene splitting, and that the new policy would be adopted by the Commerce Department’s Patent and Trademark Office. The policy will allow the patenting of animals with new traits, and one report states that “researches will eventually [...]
In January this year an In Vitro Fertilization clinic opened at Winnipeg’s Health Sciences Centre. This prompted meetings and considerable correspondence between members of the IVF team and the League of Life in Manitoba. As a result;, the recent Vatican document, “On Respect for Human Life and its Origins and the Dignity and Procreation,” which formally condemned IVF, has created more than [...]