Bioethics
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Written on 3 Nov, 1983 at 10:51 in
Abortion, Across Canada, Bioethics | Author:
Interim Staff
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 it clear that parents are responsible for providing children ... (Continue reading)
Written on 2 Oct, 1983 at 13:52 in
Bioethics, Pro-life Groups | Author:
Dr. and Mrs. Matthew J McQueen
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 SERENA stands for is stated in the objectives of the Serena Canada Corporation. Some of these ... (Continue reading)
Written on 2 Oct, 1983 at 11:18 in
Abortion, Bioethics | Author:
Dr. D.J. Dooley
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 clear enough. A mere 5 percent of those polled were totally opposed to abortion. 49.5 percent ... (Continue reading)
Written on 2 Oct, 1983 at 11:11 in
Bioethics, Euthanasia | Author:
Catherine Bolger
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 man in the state.”
Dr. Christopher Hufeland (1762-1836)
The Marriage and Family Newsletter (1977) on euthanasia was written ... (Continue reading)
Written on 30 Jul, 1983 at 9:36 in
Abortion, Bioethics, Euthanasia, Society & Culture | Author:
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 of unfulfilled human life that equals the death toll in the great atomic attack on Hiroshima and ... (Continue reading)
Written on 30 Jul, 1983 at 7:11 in
Bioethics | Author:
Lynda Lee-Potter, Daily Mail, Wednesday, May 18, 1983
Harri Blankfield is currently staying in a ₤ 260-a-day suite at London's Hilton Hotel.
She is an overweight, rich, short-necked American mother of two, regarded by some as a monster, by others as their pathway to fulfillment.
Personally, I see her only as a shrewd, avaricious business woman.
Mrs. Blankfied runs a business called Miracle Program which hires out female bodies to couples comprising of fertile husbands married to barren wives. Harriet Blankfield acts as the intermediary between the desperately childless and women ... (Continue reading)
Written on 2 Jul, 1983 at 11:13 in
Bioethics, Pro-Life, Religion, Society & Culture | Author:
Interim Staff A Message from the Administrative Board of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops
September 7, 1983
Ethical Reflections on Respect for Life
Introduction
Never before in history has human life been so menaced on our planet, in its growth and in its very existence. All of us live under the shadow of fear cast by the spectre of a nuclear war. Governments of both left and right – in the name of national security – strip their ... (Continue reading)
Written on 23 Jun, 1983 at 8:07 in
Bioethics, Euthanasia | Author:
E.C
The Toronto Star, May 26, reported that an Edmonton doctor, name not given, had "practiced euthanasia with compassion". He had ordered a lethal dose of morphine to put a baby out of its agony - 16 hours after its birth. According to the report, the doctor's license has been suspended and he has left the country. Crown prosecutors are investigating to determine if criminal charges should be laid.
If hospital records show that the baby was given an overdose on doctor's ... (Continue reading)
Written on 23 May, 1983 at 7:05 in
Bioethics | Author:
Merrilyn Currie In the last article, we said that the Ovulation Method provided women with a more complete understanding of the phases of fertility and infertility in their cycles. In other words, women need to know not only when ovulation occurs and when infertility begins after ovulation. They also need to recognize the onset of fertility. This is particularly true of nursing mothers, anovular and pre-menopausal women and those with long irregular cycles. Women who are infertile, either occasionally or for prolonged ... (Continue reading)
Written on 23 May, 1983 at 6:43 in
Abortion, Bioethics, Human Rights Commissions | Author:
Interim Staff
Canadian nurses, who do not wish to assist at abortions, are in a very difficult legal position. This is based on the fact that there is no "conscience clause" in the abortion section of the Federal Criminal Code. The Provincial Human Rights Codes, however, usually provide that no one can be discriminated against on the basis of "creed". Thus, nurses, in theory, cannot be refused employment or have their employment terminated if their "creed" prohibits abortion. However, in actual practice, ... (Continue reading)
Written on 22 May, 1983 at 13:59 in
Bioethics | Author:
Fr. T. Colleton
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 man in the state."
The above statement was not made in 1983 by the President of Right to Life or by a Roman Catholic bishop. It was made by a German physician named Dr. Christoph Hufeland, who lived from 1762 to 1863. If I had read it twenty-five years ago I would ... (Continue reading)
Written on 22 Apr, 1983 at 9:17 in
Bioethics | Author:
Interim staff An exceptionally important case was decided by the Supreme Court of British Columbia on Friday, March 18, 1983, when it ordered that a six-year-old retarded boy have a relatively minor brain-shunt operation. This operation saved him from death, or at least from increasing pain and discomfort.
A few days earlier, on Monday, March 15, Provincial Judge Patricia Byrne of Burnaby Family Court had ruled that the life-saving operation for Stephen Dawson would be "cruel and unusual treatment" and an extraordinary intervention ... (Continue reading)
Written on 22 Mar, 1983 at 9:01 in
Bioethics | Author:
Well, for the last several decades, biologists, the true experts on the question of life (in the physical sense) have used certain criteria to separate living from inanimate objects, as well as organism from tissue, These criteria are compiled in the marvelous introductory biology text by Helena Curtis. Biology (Worth Publishers Inc., 2nd ed., 1976).
1."Living organisms are complex and highly organized." As you can see, for example, in figure 1, in the highly complex arrangement of the cytoskeleton ('cell skeleton'). ... (Continue reading)
Written on 22 Mar, 1983 at 8:54 in
Bioethics | Author:
Andy Turnbull Of all the weak pro-abortion arguments; perhaps the weakest is the inability to admit that life begins at conception, that a human being with full personhood exists at that time. Pro-abortionists prefer to degrade the newly formed human by naming it a 'blob of tissue' or 'just an egg cell'. These phrases are both inaccurate, and scientifically incorrect.
Life, for any organism, begins when two gametes ('male' and 'female' reproductive cells) fuse to form the zygote. At this point the life ... (Continue reading)
Written on 19 Mar, 1983 at 12:20 in
Abortion, Bioethics | Author:
In 1971, the Canadian Medical Association in a close vote (78 to 74) stated that "there is justification on non-medical social grounds for the deliberate termination of pregnancy as long as the abortion is performed by a qualified medical practitioner with the approval of therapeutic abortion committees."
The Canadian Medical Association has been in deep trouble ever since, not only because it lost tremendous credibility as a result of its position on abortion, but also because it has been under constant ... (Continue reading)
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