It seems that the “quality of life” ethic now encompasses more groups of people than the “unwanted” unborn, handicapped and elderly. In Britain, the Oxfordshire District Health Authority decided that a 44-year-old would no longer receive life-saving kidney dialysis treatment because “he would have died within weeks or months from his hypertension.” Both the British Kidney Patients Association and Labour MP Lewis [...]
Rumours have circulated for some time that human embryos from abortions are being sold to industrial firms to be used for cosmetic products. The first time that I was confronted with such rumours was some months ago. A journalist told me that after a road accident in the north of France, a lorry had turned over and lost [...]
Exposing an unborn child to x-rays more than doubles the chance that the child will contract cancer before reaching adulthood, according to a report published in the New England Journal of Medicine on February 27. An unborn child “may be especially sensitive to the carcinogenic effects of ionizing radiation,” say the authors, who compared sets of twins who did [...]
John Jenkinson, whose British parents were advised to abort him when a prenatal blood test showed he had spina bifida, is today a healthy two-year-old. His parents, a Rotherham, Yorkshire, couple are so dissatisfied with medical and Health Authority answers to their questions that they have now written to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, asking her to find out why a [...]
Three years ago, in 1982, a large number of parents and parent groups approached the Toronto School Board about its sex education programme. Some of the materials recommended in the Board’s guidelines, these parents felt, do not reflect community standards of sexual morality. The message that seems to come across is that sexual morality is purely a matter [...]
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Delegates at the recent annual general meeting of Alliance for Life passed a resolution urging all Canadian pro-lifers to join the Upjohn boycott, initiated by National Right to Life in the U.S. Upjohn is the first modern pharmaceutical company to turn from making life-saving drugs to producing drugs whose only purpose is to kill. Their Prostin F2 alpha is [...]
In Britain, experimentation on dead aborted babies and on “spare” embryos created by in vitro fertilization has been going on for some time. Publicity on these experiments followed the blocking in parliament of a private member’s bill (put forward by Mr. Enoch Powell) that would have prohibited experiments on embryos. Powell’s bill, in turn, was prompted by release of the government-appointed Warnock [...]
The Canadian medical establishment has consistently told parents that benefits of immunization far outweigh any risks that may be associated with vaccination. But a growing number of parents are concerned with the possible side effects from vaccines. More and more cases of disabled children are getting publicity now, especially when the parents of these children are seeking compensation from the government for [...]
Involuntary sterilization of the mentally retarded is stirring bitter controversy and resentment among mentally handicapped people. The recent sterilization of “Infant K,” a ten-year-old mentally handicapped British Columbia girl, appalled the Canadian Association for the Mentally Retarded. In an effort to protect the mentally handicapped and their right to have children, the association has gone to the Supreme Court of Canada. The [...]
Natural Family Planning is not simply “a better form of birth control.” Behind NFP lies an integral vision of the human person. Behind contraception lies the fragmented vision of the contraceptive mentality. The two are worlds apart. As Pope John Paul II noted in his brilliant document on the family: The difference, both anthropological and moral, between contraception and recourse to the [...]
A recent medical journal article out of Sherbrooke, Quebec, details the fact that fetal experimentation has not ceased in Canada. Titled, “Explant Culture of Human Fetal Small Intestine,” the article, by D. Menard and P. Arseneault from that university, was quite specific. It states that small intestines “from fetuses varying from 10 to 14 weeks post fertilization were obtained [...]
The evidence is in: the deliberations are over; our subject is found guilty; and the sentence is passed. Not one word is spoken in his defense, and there is no appeal. What if the crime? The crime is most serious. He has been determined to be mentally handicapped. The penalty is clear, death by saline poisoning. The Human [...]
Artificial Insemination (AI) is he placing of semen inside a women’s vagina, or directly into the uterus by means other than sexual intercourse. The semen is collected by masturbation and insemination is timed to coincide with the women’s ovulation. The semen used for AI may be fresh (used within one hour of collection), or previously frozen and thawed just [...]
Recently there has been widespread publicity of a new method, called chorionic villi sampling, for detecting abnormalities in the unborn child. Cells are taken from the placental tissue (chorion) of the developing child and are studied for chromosomal abnormalities. It has been thought that any chromosomal defects found in the placenta would also exist in the [...]