Bioethics
Written on 4 Jul, 2002 at 13:42 in
Bioethics | Author:
Fr. Ted Colleton
In recent months there has been a great deal of publicity in the newspapers on the question of human cloning. As a pro-lifer I am against human cloning, but being neither a doctor nor a scientist I did not feel competent to express my sentiments in an appropriate language. However, the arrival of the March issue of Knights of Columbus magazine Knightline came to the rescue. In ... (Continue reading)
Written on 4 Jul, 2002 at 13:36 in
Bioethics | Author:
Eli Schuster
In the latest Star Wars film Attack of the Clones, a well-trained army of clone troopers performs brilliantly under pressure and saves the Jedi knights from almost certain defeat. In real life, however, the white-armoured clones of bounty hunter Jango Fett would likely suffer from arthritis, premature aging, mental defects, and other ailments if they had not already died in infancy, according to research ... (Continue reading)
Written on 4 Jul, 2002 at 13:13 in
Bioethics | Author:
Rory Leishman
Should scientists have a right in Canadian law to clone human beings? Yes, indeed, insists Abdallah S. Daar, professor of public-health sciences and director of the University of Toronto program in applied ethics and biotechnology; Timothy Caulfield, Canada Research Chair in health law and policy at the Health Law Institute, University of Alberta; Bartha M. Knoppers, Canada Research Chair in law and medicine at ... (Continue reading)
Written on 4 Jun, 2002 at 7:58 in
Bioethics, Paul Tuns | Author:
Paul Tuns
Charles Krauthammer is a Uruguayan-born, McGill University-educated medical doctor cum Washington D.C.-based political pundit whose work appears regularly in the American press. An ethnic Jew (it is unknown whether he practices) and confined to a wheelchair, he is a moderate conservative who has reservations about embryonic stem cell research. However, in the April 29 issue of The New Republic, he laid out the secular ... (Continue reading)
Written on 3 Jun, 2002 at 13:18 in
Bioethics, Editorials | Author:
In explaining why the federal government will allow embryonic stem cell research, Health Minister Anne McLellan said "These are surplus embryos. You know what happens to them? They go in the garbage."
That is hardly true and certainly should never be true. But examine the logic of the health minister's words and you see a callous disregard for human life.
The choice for the so-called surplus, spare or leftover embryos created ... (Continue reading)
Written on 3 May, 2002 at 13:14 in
Bioethics | Author:
Tim Bloedow
How many Canadians do you think know the nature of the procedures involved in assisted reproductive technologies and in vitro-fertilization? How many Christians, or other generally pro-life people, do you think understand the nature of these procedures? Well, I don't know the details either, but I am thinking particularly of the abortion/murder-related implications.
About a year ago, an evangelical monthly magazine published a heart-warming testimony of a couple who couldn't ... (Continue reading)
Written on 3 May, 2002 at 12:57 in
Bioethics | Author:
Liberal, Alliance and Bloc Quebecois MPs on the House of Commons health committee accused Canadian Institutes of Health Research president Alan Bernstein of pre-empting Parliament when it announced funding guidelines for embryonic stem cell research in March, about two months before federal Health Minister Ann McLellan was expected to introduce legislation outlining experimental and reproductive technologies legislation.
The CIHR guidelines permit federal funding for embryonic stem cell research, as well ... (Continue reading)
Written on 3 May, 2002 at 11:57 in
Bioethics | Author:
Kelly Jane Torrance
U.S. President George Bush named University of Chicago ethicist Leon Kass the chairman of his President's Council on Bioethics in August. The events of Sept. 11 delayed the naming of the other 17 members, who were finally revealed in January. The list is controversial in some circles, because it is more conservative than previous presidential bioethics councils.
The members include such nationally known thinkers as ... (Continue reading)
Written on 27 Apr, 2002 at 9:26 in
Bioethics | Author:
Natalie Hudson
Right to life observer finds panelists prefer to discuss science over ethics
On Feb. 1, York University's Bethune College held a Stem Cell Symposium, attended by about 200 students and a smattering of professors. The science of stem cells was presented with clarity as the six-member panel examined this exciting new ground of regenerative medicine. But despite giving lip service to the ethics of using stem ... (Continue reading)
Written on 27 Apr, 2002 at 8:14 in
Bioethics, Paul Tuns | Author:
Paul Tuns
Liberal MP Paul Szabo (Mississauga South), an outspoken and active pro-life parliamentarian, has written a book on The Ethics and Science of Stem Cells.
Szabo told The Interim he wrote the book "To promote discussion among parliamentarians and the public about this very important and timely topic."
It was distributed to all MPs and senators and is available to anyone who requests a copy.
As the title ... (Continue reading)
Written on 27 Apr, 2002 at 7:46 in
Bioethics | Author:
James Wood
It has been tried and tested, has failed every time, and yet we still insist on trying it again.
Xenotransplantation, or animal to human transplantation, may sound very beneficial, but there are many controversial issues surrounding it. There is no mystery as to why.
xenotransplantation has not been in the news only recently. In 1964, six patients received kidney transplants from chimpanzees. Five of the patients survived for only a few ... (Continue reading)
Written on 26 Apr, 2002 at 12:06 in
Bioethics | Author:
Third World de-population has been U.S. strategic policy since '74
Top-secret files recently declassified from the National Archives of Australia, despite government opposition, has revealed that one of the fathers of modern biotechnology and genetic engineering advocated using biological weapons against Indonesia and other "overpopulated" countries of South-East Asia. Australia's The Age reports that world-famous microbiologist Sir ... (Continue reading)
Written on 23 Apr, 2002 at 12:57 in
Bioethics, Editorials | Author:
The announcement that the Canadian Institutes for Health Research will fund embryonic stem cell research is bad enough, because such experimentation depends upon the destruction of tiny human beings at their earliest stage of development. There can be no forgetting this abomination.
But the problem is made worse when an agency of the federal government, run by unelected bureaucrats, makes laws on vital life issues ... (Continue reading)
Written on 23 Mar, 2002 at 9:24 in
Bioethics | Author:
LifeSite News
Famed Canadian singer Celine Dion has revealed that she is intending to implant the frozen embryo she had created through in-vitro fertilization. In an announcement on ABC's 20/20, Dion revealed that she is returning to the stage next year, performing five nights a week for three years at Caesar's Palace hotel in Las Vegas for a reported $100 million.
After the three years, she will attempt to bear her ... (Continue reading)
Written on 23 Mar, 2002 at 9:18 in
Bioethics | Author:
Tanya L. Green, J.D.
A recent episode of the CBS prime-time legal drama Family Law explored the controversial subject of stem cells. Titled "Arlene's Choice," the program's lawyers represent a mother five months pregnant who wants to induce delivery early. She wants to obtain stem cells from her newborn to save the life of her eight-year-old son, who is dying of aplastic anemia. However, the baby has very little chance of surviving.
The judge ... (Continue reading)
