Alan Bryan, 43, of Nova Scotia, was sentenced to 15 years in jail recently for his brutal attack on his then-pregnant girlfriend, Charlene Knapp. Knapp, 28, was four months pregnant when, on July 31 last year, Bryan stabbed her up to 15 times with a sword. Knapp survived the attack, but the child in her womb was killed. Despite his killing the [...]
Turkish immigrant Aysun Sesen, 25, was pregnant with her four-month child when she was found stabbed twice in the abdomen, alongside her injured mother-in-law, in their Toronto home. She later died of her wounds and the baby was born stillborn. Sesan’s husband, Turan Cocelli, 29, was charged with one count of second-degree murder and one count of assault. The police said, “In [...]
Many doctors have been asked the question, “Doctor, is my baby normal?” The physician replying to the above question must remember that all medical diagnostic tests should be performed only in order to identify and, if possible, cure or ameliorate whatever condition the patient may be suffering from. He or she should also know that some currently used medical diagnostic tests are [...]
A dramatic episode of the popular evening television drama, House, that showed an unborn child from an opened womb grasping a surgeon’s finger during surgery, vividly demonstrated the humanity of the unborn. The Fox network drama featured a story line where a 42-year-old pregnant rock and roll photographer suffers a stroke and doctors discover the cause is a rare condition called Maternal Mirror [...]
Jan. 21, the date that President George W. Bush chose for his fellow Americans to honour the sanctity of human life, is significant for two reasons. First, it falls on a Sunday, the Lord’s Day. Secondly, it is one day prior to the 34th anniversary of the infamous Roe v Wade decision that drove a sword into the nation’s commitment to the [...]
It seems that negative attitudes toward people with disabilities have recently grown from the theoretical ideas of Peter Singer of Princeton University, who believes that it is acceptable to kill disabled infants, into the actual practice of allowing infants with disabilities to be euthanized. In any other time in history, this was known as the crime of infanticide. It is now becoming [...]
The worlds of philosophy and humour often intersect so that philosophers can sometimes be mistaken for comedians and vice versa. To the age-old question, “If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?” one might not be certain whether to respond with a frown or a smile. A contemporary variant of [...]
In May, a sub-committee of the standing committee on procedural and House affairs ruled that Bill C-291, a private member’s bill by Conservative MP Leon Benoit (Vegreville-Wainwright) that would have made it a separate criminal offence to harm an unborn child during the commission of a crime against a pregnant mother, was non-votable. On June 6, the full committee upheld the decision [...]
On May 17, Conservative MP Leon Benoit (Vegreville-Wainwright) introduced a bill in Parliament to recognize unborn victims of violence. Bill C-291, an act to amend the Criminal Code (injuring or causing the death of a child before or during its birth while committing an offence), saw first reading. Benoit hopes to address, however narrowly, the fact that Canada is the only Western [...]
Interim Staff Conservative MP Gary Breitkreuz (Yorkton-Melville) introduced a motion to have the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights investigate the case of Lloyd Schrier, whose mother underwent “de-patterning” experiments in 1960 under CIA-funded Montreal psychiatrist Ewen Cameron until her nine-month of pregnancy. In 1994, Ottawa compensated 77 of Cameron’s patients who were exposed to prolonged drug-induced sleep and massive electroshock [...]
Paul Tuns and John-Henry Westen The Interim U.S. researchers and a sycophantic mainstream media are trumpeting the latest embryonic stem cell “discovery” – stem cells that are derived ethically from embryos. According to the scientific magazine Nature, Massachusetts-based biotech firm Advanced Cell Technology has developed a procedure that removes single cells from early-stage embryos without always killing the embryo. Blastomere separation – [...]
LifeSiteNews.com Special to The Interim The Canadian Institutes of Health Research is the government body overseeing Canadian experiments in cloning and use of embryos for research and was the major lobbyist in favour of the unrestricted use of living embryonic human beings for destructive medical research. It will come as no surprise to many, therefore, that the CIHR has changed the rules [...]
Terry Vanderheyden The Interim A panel of experts has concluded there is no reason to exclude a controversial piece of “art,” which depicts the head of an unborn baby grafted onto the body of a bird, from a collection of Chinese works on display in a Swiss museum. One legal expert claims opposition to the piece is a matter of “taste.” The [...]
LifeSiteNews.com Special to The Interim Human embryonic stem cells have long been known to be unstable and difficult to control. In some cases, where they have been used directly in therapeutic trials, the use of embryonic stem cells has been disastrous for patients. Now, a researcher from Johns Hopkins University, an institution that has backed the use of embryos for research, has [...]
LifeSiteNews.com Special to The Interim In a speech in the U.S. Senate at the end of July, Bill Frist, the Senate majority leader, broke radically both with President Bush and his own past statements by supporting a bill to expand federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. In his speech, Frist said that while embryos are living and fully human, they still [...]