Bioethics
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Written on 20 Jul, 2006 at 11:52 in
Bioethics | Author:
Frank Kennedy
Queen's Park
I was at the Ninth National March for life in Ottawa recently, walking along in front of the Parliament buildings, when I spotted a familiar face pushing a small wooden white cart in front of him through the crowds on the sidewalk. He wore an oversized T-shirt emblazoned front and back: “I’M PRO-LIFE.”
I called ... (Continue reading)
Written on 17 May, 2006 at 8:53 in
Bioethics | Author:
Hilary White
Tissue engineering breakthrough might be
a solution to the organ donation shortage
Complete urinary bladders grown from patients' own cells have been transplanted and functioning for as long as four years, reports a group of researchers in The Lancet. Dubbed the "neo-bladders," the ... (Continue reading)
Written on 17 Apr, 2006 at 8:28 in
Bioethics | Author:
Hilary White
Health Canada is not planning to take any action against the practice of selling human ova on the internet, despite the ostensible prohibition of the practice under Canada’s Assisted Reproduction Technologies Act. Citing a loophole in the legislation, a Health Canada official says the act does not ban the advertising of human genetic materials, only their purchase. “It’s a payment ... (Continue reading)
Written on 17 Mar, 2006 at 7:35 in
Bioethics | Author:
On Feb. 16, Ontario New Democrat MPP and House Leader Peter Kormos introduced a private member’s bill that proposed to make organ donation automatic for everyone, unless the individual has previously “opted out” of the system. Kormos said the plan “will help ease the organ-donation crisis,” in which there are not enough organs donated to meet the demand for transplants.... (Continue reading)
Written on 16 Mar, 2006 at 11:16 in
Bioethics, Editorials | Author:
When you get to the bottom of the issue of organ donation, there are two main arguments used against pro-lifers in their concerns about the practice: dying patients don’t need organs anyway and improving another person’s life is a truly pro-life position. Neither argument holds any water.
Regarding the first argument, the moral principle is simple: it is never ... (Continue reading)
Written on 16 Feb, 2006 at 9:23 in
Bioethics | Author:
Hilary White
The spectacular rise and fall of maverick South Korean cloning “hero,” Professor Hwang Woo-Suk, a veterinarian and professor of biotechnology at Seoul National University, is being taken as a lesson in the power of media hype.
Despite the fact that most reputable specialists in cloning had believed such ... (Continue reading)
Written on 3 Nov, 2005 at 10:40 in
Bioethics, Fetal Rights | Author:
Paul Tuns
John-Henry Westen
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 ... (Continue reading)
Written on 3 Oct, 2005 at 9:11 in
Bioethics, Fetal Rights | Author:
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.... (Continue reading)
Written on 3 Oct, 2005 at 8:33 in
Bioethics, Fetal Rights | Author:
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 ... (Continue reading)
Written on 30 Sep, 2005 at 13:34 in
Bioethics, Fetal Rights, Pro-Life | Author:
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.... (Continue reading)
Written on 3 Sep, 2005 at 7:49 in
Bioethics, Columnist, Rory Leishman | Author:
Rory Leishman
Senator Bill Frist of Tennessee, the Republican majority leader in the United States Senate, is a medical professor, heart-transplant surgeon and sincere Christian, who spends much of his vacation time serving as a medical volunteer in clinics for AIDS patients in Africa. Speaking in the United States Senate on July 29, he made the best conceivable case for a bad cause – embryonic stem cell research. “I ... (Continue reading)
Written on 30 Jul, 2005 at 9:00 in
Bioethics, Fetal Rights | Author:
Paul Tuns
By Paul Tuns
The Interim
Researchers at Mount Sinai hospital in Toronto have produced Canada’s first embryonic stem cell lines and are boasting about this country being a leader in curing various diseases and ailments. Some scientists, however, say those involved in the ground-breaking science are overstating claims as to the kind of cures that may come from the unproven research.
Dr. Andras Nagy, a senior researcher at Mount Sinai, said the new ... (Continue reading)
Written on 30 Jun, 2005 at 8:33 in
Bioethics | Author:
LifeSiteNews.com
Special to The Interim
Pro-life Canadians who want to donate money to medical research often find themselves in an ethical dilemma. Most organizations supporting disease research in Canada have policies supporting the use of human beings at the embryonic stage for living research test subjects.
On March 4, 2002, the Cancer Society wrote in a media release: “The Canadian Cancer Society and National Cancer Institute of Canada (NCIC) fully support, and will ... (Continue reading)
Written on 30 Jun, 2005 at 8:19 in
Bioethics | Author:
LifeSitesNews.com
Special to The Interim
Once again South Korean scientist, Dr. Hwang Woo-suk has made international headlines by creating a number of cloned human beings intended to be killed and harvested for their stem cells. The doctor, whom the National Post called a Korean “folk hero” for his work in human cloning, has obtained stem cells from clones created from ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Mar, 2005 at 12:24 in
Bioethics | Author:
EDINBURGH — Professor Ian Wilmut of the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh, Scotland, the famed “creator” of Dolly the sheep, has been given the green light to use and destroy human embryos in cloning experiments. The Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority gave Wilmut permission to study motor neurone disease. Research cloning has been permitted in ... (Continue reading)
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