Fetal Rights
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Written on 16 Apr, 2012 at 6:39 in
Announcements, Features, Fetal Rights, Politics | Author:
Paul Tuns Conservative MP Stephen Woodworth’s motion M-312 calling upon Parliament to debate whether an unborn child is a human being and the human rights implications of those findings, is scheduled for debate on April 26.
The Kitchener Center MP introduced his motion in early February and in the first week of March the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs’ subcommittee on private members’ business deemed M-312 votable. One hour of debate is scheduled ... (Continue reading)
Written on 26 Mar, 2012 at 5:35 in
Fetal Rights, Issues, Politics | Author:
Paul Tuns On Feb. 6, MP Stephen Woodworth filed a motion with the Clerk of the House of Commons to ask Parliament to form a special committee to study what he called Canada’s “archaic” definition of human being, a move broadly supported by the Canadian pro-life movement.
Woodworth, a Conservative MP from Kitchener-Centre, notes that Section 223(1) of the Criminal Code which defines human being, originates in a 400-year-old law as recorded by the 17th century English lawyer and jurist, Edward Coke in ... (Continue reading)
Written on 27 Dec, 2011 at 12:29 in
Fetal Rights | Author:
Pauline Kosalka On Nov. 9, residents of Mississippi defeated a ballot initiative that, if passed, would recognize all fertilized eggs as people. Initiative 26, the Personhood Amendment, backed by Personhood USA, was defeated 55 to 45 per cent. The measure might have led to a legal challenge because of its contradiction to the 1973 Supreme Court decision, Roe v. Wade. It needed 89,285 signatures to get on the ballot. In the end, it ... (Continue reading)
Written on 13 Dec, 2008 at 7:12 in
Fetal Rights | Author:
Tony Gosgnach Assistant Editor A leading neurologist and long-time supporter of the pro-life cause has outlined how, despite the political attempts of pro-abortion advocates to overrun science, the literature clearly demonstrates that the preborn human being can feel pain - and feel it intensely - by the 20-week point in his or her development in the womb.
Dr. Paul Ranalli is a neurologist, lecturer and clinical instructor at the University of ... (Continue reading)
Written on 30 Jul, 2008 at 8:09 in
Fetal Rights | Author:
Tim Waggoner Special to The Interim
A 29-year-old Newfoundland mother was days away from delivering her third child when she was murdered. Her boyfriend and the father of the baby, Warren White, has been charged. Four neighbourhood children discovered her dismembered body in a forest near an apartment the couple had moved into six months ago. Amanda Power, who was already a mother of two, was nine months pregnant according to her father, ... (Continue reading)
Written on 23 Mar, 2008 at 11:56 in
Fetal Rights | Author:
John-Henry Westen - Special to The Interim
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 ... (Continue reading)
Written on 30 Jun, 2007 at 11:07 in
Bioethics, Fetal Rights | Author:
By John B. Shea, M.D., FRCP(C) Special to The Interim
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 ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 May, 2007 at 8:53 in
Fetal Rights | Author:
Hilary White Special to The Interim
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 ... (Continue reading)
Written on 27 Feb, 2007 at 12:41 in
Columnist, Donald DeMarco, Fetal Rights | Author:
Commentary by Donald DeMarco The Interim 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 sanctity of human life, leaving a wound that has ... (Continue reading)
Written on 19 Dec, 2006 at 9:21 in
Abortion, Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, Fetal Rights | Author:
Alex Schadenberg
The Interim 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 viewed as “dying with dignity.”... (Continue reading)
Written on 20 Aug, 2006 at 9:42 in
Abortion, Fetal Rights | Author:
Donald DeMarco
The Interim
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 the ... (Continue reading)
Written on 20 Jul, 2006 at 11:33 in
Fetal Rights, Unborn Victims Act | Author:
Paul Tuns
Editor
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 ... (Continue reading)
Written on 17 Jun, 2006 at 10:29 in
Abortion, Fetal Rights | Author:
Paul Tuns
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 ... (Continue reading)
Written on 3 Nov, 2005 at 18:38 in
Fetal Rights | Author:
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 ... (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)
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