Mothers must have rubella during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy to affect their babies. A review of 15 major studies showed that only 16.9 per cent of the babies in contact with rubella would have defects. Rubella as an indication (reason) for abortion would see five healthy babies aborted for every one affected baby. The last [...]
The November Interim story on Rubella vaccine WI-38 was printed with the realization that experimentation on aborted babies, and even babies about to be aborted, is an ongoing enterprise around the world. We would draw the attention of our readers to the hidden and extensive nature of this hideous further refinement of the evil of abortion with the following [...]
In November 1984, The Interim front page story (“Aborted babies used for vaccine”), attracted national media attention. The reaction to information that the current rubella vaccine was developed from cells of an aborted baby varied from amused credulity that pro-lifers would reveal see no objection to continued use of the vaccine, while others are distressed that their children have [...]
In France, a recently published book documents international traffic in aborted fetuses for scientific research and for use in cosmetics. The Traffickers of the Unborn is written by Claud Jacquinot, a judge, and Jacques Delay, a journalist. M. Jacquinot is the founder of the French organization, "Laissez Vivre" ("Let Them Live"), which published the book. It has been known for some time [...]
The angel of death has a new disguise: health. More exactly, a life-saving inoculation. The vaccines used throughout Ontario and some other provinces, to protect Canadian school children from such diseases as rubella and rabies are derived from abortion. Human fetuses have been used by scientists to produce the cultures (WI-38 and MRC5 strains) from which the vaccines are made. We've all [...]
The Ontario Ministry of Health has confirmed in writing that the vaccine currently given to Canadian school children to prevent Rubella (German Measles) and Rabies has been and is being derived from the lung tissue of aborted babies. In Ontario, and some other provinces, vaccination is mandatory for all children entering both the public and separate school systems. Exemptions may be granted [...]
In Britain, the July report of the Warnock committee on the ethics of such matters as test-tube baby research has provoked considerable debate. The government-appointed committee, chaired by Dame Mary Warnock, recommends a ban on surrogate-motherhood agencies, both profit and non-profit making; a 14-day limit on experiments on human embryos; legitimization of children born by artificial insemination by donor; the freezing of [...]
S.M. In Australia, social psychologist, Dr. Robyn Rowland, has resigned as chairwoman of the research co-ordinating committee of the Queen Victoria Medical Centre in Melbourne. The purpose of the committee was to co-ordinate research into the effects of reproductive techniques on families. Dr. Rowland's resignation (in July, 1984) is a protest against attempts to "muzzle" her research into the Artificial Insemination by [...]
Even though the Department of National Revenue makes it quite clear to charitable groups that political lobbying is contrary to regulations, Planned Parenthood of Canada has once again placed an ad in national newspaper (The Globe and Mail. July 28, 1984) and ad which is an open admission that Planned Parenthood is a strong political lobby in Ottawa. The ad instructs the [...]
The number of Down's Syndrome children could well be reduced in the next decade by new pregnancy-testing methods. This is the message of an article from the British journal The Economist which was printed in the Globe & Mail ("Down's detection gets help - July 16, 1984.) At present the chromosomal abnormality of Down's syndrome can be tested by amniocentesis, and the [...]
A national committee charged with writing new guidelines for medical researchers had requested public reaction to the ethical problems created by current research. The Committee on Ethic in Experimentation was organized earlier this year by the Medical Research Council of Canada in order to update the guidelines set by the Council in 1978. The Council is the only organization in this field [...]
Last month, I wrote on Germaine Greer's attack on contraception and her repots of how the West has foisted artificial means of birth control on third-world women. As I pointed out then, Greer's concern in Sex and Destiny (Soddart Publishing, Toronto, 1984, $18.95) is solely for those women, who she feels have been manipulated. Presumably, Western women are far too sophisticated to [...]
Last month, in a landmark decision, the Supreme Court of Ontario awarded Pauline Buchan of Mississauga over $800,000, plus legal costs, against Ortho Pharmaceutical (Canada) Limited. Mrs. Buchan, now 35, suffered a stroke in 1971, 34 days after she started taking Ortho Novum 1/50, an oral contraceptive pill. She has suffered permanent brain damage, and partial paralysis of her left arm and [...]
There have been indications for some time that the next big push from the permissive lobby in Britain will be to legalize incest. In 1975, the British Sexual Law Reform Society (SLRS) produced a report recommending that the age of consent should be reduced to 14, including incestuous relationships. The Family Planning Association (FPA - a public-funded charity) tacitly supported this report. [...]
Germaine Greer, the high-profile Australian feminist, has a new book - Sex and Destiny: the Politics of Human Fertility. It has caused the kind of media publicity which puts a gleam in the eye of the publisher. Her media interviews have confirmed her reputation for fearless outspokenness, for she refers crudely to parts of the female anatomy. Most reviewers and critics of [...]