From the CBC: Scientists find potential way to create safer stem cells from skin… Pluripotent stem cells could offer the treatment potential of embryonic stem cells without destroying a human embryo. Why must we insist on destroying embryos again?
Peter Steinfels has a good article in the New York Times on the moral issues of the embryonic stem cell research debate, in light of Obama’s announcement to extend funding for embryonic stem cell research. He doesn’t make any moral …
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On Monday, March 23rd come out for one of our biggest events of the year! We will be hosting women from the Silent No More Awareness Campaign, who will share with us their abortion experiences and how it affected their …
Michael Coren weighs in on the recent controversies at St. Mary’s University and the University of Calgary (via ProWomanProLife).
Jose Ruba got a warm welcome from pro-choicers at St. Mary’s University the other day. Similar to tactics we’ve seen on the U of T campus in the past weeks, these protesters decided to shout slogans (the same ones we …
From NCLN: The University of Calgary has just charged its own students with “trespassing” for having defied the University’s censorship demands by setting up a controversial display on campus this past November. Two months after exhibiting the Genocide Awareness Project …
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A disabled man in the UK called 999 before collapsing in his home in Brighton, but when paramedics arrived, they decided to pretend he had already died rather than resuscitate him. The dispatcher was still listening on the open phone …
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Well, that didn’t take long (via @SuzanneSadler). Not that this was surprising. Republican and Democrat presidents have been flipping this thing on and off quite routinely. Gotta love politics. Though the thing to watch out for in the U.S. is …
Winnipeg MP Rod Bruinooge made headlines last week when he pointed out that “Canada has far greater protections for human kidneys than we do for human fetuses.” Chair of the Parliamentary Pro-Life Caucus, Bruinooge had the courage to bring the …
A Quebec man, Stephan Dufour, has been acquitted of assisted suicide charges despite clearly having assisted in the suicide of his 49-year-old uncle, Chantal Maltais. The media coverage is shocking. Mindelle Jacobs says there was no real harm done. Dufour’s …
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