Bioethics
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Written on 6 Feb, 1998 at 11:46 in
Bioethics, Politics | Author:
Federal Health Minister Allan Rock has reiterated the need for careful federal regulation in the area of new reproductive and genetic technologies.
In a December letter to The Interim, Mr. Rock said the voluntary moratorium on certain new reproductive technology applications, such as sex selection for non-medical purposes, cloning of embryos, and embryonic research, remains in effect.
The moratorium was enacted by Health Canada in July ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Sep, 1997 at 13:40 in
Bioethics | Author:
STOCKHOLM - Sweden's most influential opposition leader demanded August 26 that the government investigate a four-decade policy under which 60,000 people deemed genetically inferior were sterilized.
Swedes, long proud of there social welfare system, have been forced to acknowledge an unflattering chapter in their past since a newspaper series recently looked at the 1935-76 involuntary sterilization program.
Some have said robbing fellow citizens of the ability to have children reminds them of Nazi ... (Continue reading)
Written on 22 Aug, 1997 at 12:34 in
Bioethics | Author:
Gerry Brosso KINGSTON There were theatrics, debate and emotion and a Global Action Plan. More than 500 people from around the world gathered at Queen's University here July 13-17 to look at the causes of breast cancer and develop a strategy to halt the disease.
Breast cancer is the leading cause of death in women 35 to 54 years, and rates are highest in industrialized countries, including Canada.
In her plenary speech, former U.S. congresswoman Bella Abzug said breast cancer needs to be brought ... (Continue reading)
Written on 23 Jun, 1997 at 9:11 in
Bioethics | Author:
Gloria Lawrenson
Interim Special “Let s make man in our image, after our likeness,” said Almighty God in Chapter 17 Genesis. Now, “Clone-Aid” – a Caribbean company, advertising human clones (at a cost of $200,000 each) on the Internet is proposing that man can make man in his own image and for his own purposes.
Less than two weeks after Scottish scientists announced they had successfully cloned a sheep, debate on the issue of human cloning is heating up. It appears that Dr. Margaret White, ... (Continue reading)
Written on 23 Jun, 1997 at 8:46 in
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Karen Murawsky OTTAWA – “Our future children”, an examination of the consequences of Bill C-47, was the theme of a seminar organized in April by the Catholic Women’s League of the Ottawa archdiocese.
Bill C-47, which deals with human reproductive and genetic technologies, has generated wide debate since it came to light on the public agenda.
Speakers addressing the issue included Reform MP Sharon Hayes, psychotherapist Dr. Robert McDonald, philosophy professor David DeMarco, and artist Karen Urlocher.
Sharon Hayes said pro-life, pro-family elements should attempt ... (Continue reading)
Written on 13 Apr, 1997 at 9:43 in
Bioethics | Author:
Winifride Prestwich
The latest breakthrough in genetic engineering, the successful cloning of an adult mammal, carries with it the disturbing possibility that the same, or similar, techniques could be used to clone human beings.
Even the secular press, e.g., The Globe and Mail, recognizes that this possibility has raised “the thorniest of ethical and philosophical questions.” These “Thorny questions,” however, along with the frightening potential of genetic engineering, are not new; C.S. Lewis pointed out the dangers in The ... (Continue reading)
Written on 13 Apr, 1997 at 8:24 in
Bioethics | Author:
Winifride Prestwich
Is there any reliable information about the numbers of human embryos that are frozen or used for experiments in Canada or elsewhere? K.A. Ottawa
In Canada? No. There are, however, some statistics from Britain. Early this year, in answer to a question tabled in the House of Commons by David Alton, M.P., and a Parliamentary Written Answer revealed that 64,053 embryos had been placed in “storage” between 1991 and 1994. The question was important because under the ... (Continue reading)
Written on 23 Mar, 1997 at 12:19 in
Bioethics, Issues | Author:
Interim special
Reform party M.P. Sharon Hayes and St. Jerome's College philosophy professor Dr. Donald DeMarco are two central speakers at a seminar on reproductive technology and genetic engineering sponsored by the Catholic Women's League of the Ottawa archdiocese.
The seminar, scheduled for April 22 at St. Augustine's Church in Ottawa, offers a Catholic perspective on these current social issues.
Other speakers include Deacon Dr. Robert McDonald, a medical physiotherapist, and Russell, Ontario artist Karen Urlocher who will offer a Catholic witness ... (Continue reading)
Written on 27 Oct, 1996 at 13:10 in
Bioethics | Author:
Winifred Prestwich
Is it true that the American Medical Association (AMA) has approved the removal of vital organs, e.g. the heart, from newborn anencephalic babies who are still alive?
The AMA’s Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs has certainly recommended this action.
Any organ transplant, but especially that of an unpaired organ such as the heart, demands very strict medical-legal rules. In the USA, there are two laws which specify whose organs may be used, and when: the ... (Continue reading)
Written on 18 Sep, 1996 at 10:14 in
Bioethics | Author:
Tony Gosgnach
Although there had been worldwide shock and dismay over the recent destruction in England of 3,300 (or more) abandoned embryos conceived through in-vitro fertilization (IVF), its pretty well open season on the tiny humans in Canada.
There are currently no laws governing IVF in this country, thanks mainly to the reluctance of former federal Health Minister Diane Marleau to enact mandatory guidelines on new reproductive technologies. Her inaction came following the completion of a four-year, $28 million royal commission into ... (Continue reading)
Written on 18 Sep, 1996 at 10:13 in
Bioethics, Fetal Rights | Author:
The destruction of human embryos in England can be seen as another case of reproductive technology outpacing the law. Research into in-vitro fertilization, while designed to help infertile couples, did not immediately take into account the moral and ethnical questions surrounding the treatment of “spare” embryos.
Britain in fact, was a pioneering nation in the science of in-vitro fertilization, and perhaps it is no surprise that it is the first nation to have to deal with the large-scale destruction of ... (Continue reading)
Written on 18 Sep, 1996 at 10:12 in
Bioethics, Fetal Rights | Author:
Sue Careless
Although the rate of conception is very high with in-vitro fertilization (IVF), successful embryo transfer (ET) and implantation is much more difficult and is usually the stage at which the procedure fails.
A fertility clinic often speaks of its high pregnancy rate, which usually refers to the chemical pregnancy in the fist few days, but the implantation rate is much lower, miscarriages occur and the actual “take home baby rate is lower still. This is the rate the couple needs ... (Continue reading)
Written on 18 Sep, 1996 at 10:11 in
Bioethics, Fetal Rights | Author:
John-Henry Westen
On August 1st, in a move called “a pre-natural massacre” (Vatican’s newspaper L’Osservatore Romano) and “a new milestone for the culture of death” (Catholic World News), British scientists began the destruction of more than 3, 300 human embryos.
An appeal was made to 900 couples whose frozen embryos were scheduled to be destroyed, when the five-year limit on their storage had run out.
The embryos were the result of the test-tube baby treatment undertaken before August 1991, when the storage due ... (Continue reading)
Written on 18 Sep, 1996 at 9:43 in
Bioethics, Fetal Rights | Author:
The recent destruction of more than 3,300 embryos by British fertility clinic technicians was a chilling reminder of the vulnerability of human life in its earliest stages of development. The incident also underscores how breakthroughs in the field of human reproductive technology are still running well ahead of legal and ethical constraints.
It’s not surprising that Britain should be the first nation to deal with the large-scale destruction of human embryos. As a pioneering nation in the science of in-vitro fertilization, ... (Continue reading)
Written on 5 Aug, 1996 at 9:30 in
Bioethics | Author:
U.S. clerics are keeping up the heat on President Bill Clinton for his spring veto of a Congressional ban on partial-birth abortion.
During a July 11 Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City, Cardinal John O’Connor called on the Congress to override the Clinton veto. He also described partial-birth abortion as “infanticide.”
The Mass was celebrated as part of the U.S. Catholic bishop’s National Day of Prayer and Fasting for Life. Catholics in the U.S. were ... (Continue reading)
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