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 [...]
The new medical procedure of In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) pioneered by English Drs. Steptoe 7 Edwards was actualized by the birth of Louise Joy Brown in 1978. Since then there has been a great rush around the world to duplicate and expand upon this method. How are Christians who take the Scripture seriously, and believe that they can "fully equip" us to [...]
Alberta's test tube baby clinic Welcome to Orwell's 1984! Did you know that taxes are being used to provide funding for a research project which permits scientists Dr. Renee Martin of the Medical Genetics Clinic at Calgary's Children Hospital to study the effects of fertilizing Hamster Ova with Human Sperm!! Apparently "inter-species fertilization" must be cleared through the Ethics Committee to determine [...]
Over the last number of years many people have begun to grasp that there are interrelationships between such things as abortion, sterilization, the contraceptive mentality, homosexuality, euthanasia, artificial insemination, sperm banks, test tube babies, surrogate motherhood, cloning and experimentation on embryos. Those who accept abortion, for example, will experience no pangs of conscience in experimenting with human embryos, killing them when no [...]
Abortion on demand is a fact in Canada. One million deaths prove it so. What are some of the factors that have led to this infant holocaust? Canadian Criminal Law makes a distinction between “aliveness” and “personhood”. Although a baby in the womb is alive our Criminal Code (Sect. 206) fails to recognize its humanity until “it has breathed” and “it has [...]
Calgary (CP) – Parents do not have the right to stop their children from having abortions, even if they are under 16, says a University of Alberta professor. And if they try to stop them, they could face criminal charges Ellen Picard told about 50 health-care workers this week at a discussion on children’s rights. She said the federal Criminal Code makes [...]
The Serena organization is composed of couples who use the sympto-thermal method of Natural Family Planning. Very basically, this method combines observation of mucus and other symptoms with daily recording of temperature in order to establish the fertile and infertile times in any given cycle. A very common question is – who or what is SERENA? Perhaps the best explanation of what [...]
For its report on the Canadian Medical Association survey of its member’s attitudes, the Toronto Globe & Mail used the heading “Abortion Question Divides Doctors.” In a letter published in the paper on August 27, that redoubtable McMaster University campaigner for abortion, Wendell Watters, contended that the headline did not reflect the body of the article. The doctors’ stand, he said, was [...]
The Centre for Life Understanding The following is Part 3 of a 6-part article. Originally published in The Canadian Messenger of the Sacred Heart, Toronto in 1980, reprinted here with permission. part 3…….. “If the physician presumes to take into consideration in his work whether a life has value or not, the consequences are boundless and the physician becomes the most dangerous [...]
In a CP report in the Kamloops Daily Sentinel, May 14, 1983, Dr. William Jory, outgoing president of the BC Medical Association, angrily denounced abortion and euthanasia. "Is it right that in Canada each year, 65,000 embryonic Canadians are flushed down the sluices and toilets of this country?" Dr. Jory asked the association's annual convention in Kelowna. "This is a staggering total [...]