Canada’s Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists is quietly pressing Health Canada to make the morning-after pill available without a doctor’s prescription. The society wants the federal government to take the rare step of allowing the drug to be sold over the counter without a pharmaceutical company first applying for permission. See the National Post June 23, 2000
The Vancouver Sun reports that a British Columbia company has designed, built and sold the world’s first device to measure the brain signals of unborn children. Ultimately, the device could help doctors detect and treat conditions that might otherwise lead to mental retardation or other defects, such as cerebral palsy. But while the device can warn parents that their babies will, for example, be born deaf or blind, it may also lead to pressure on them to kill the child by abortion. (Pro-Life E-News)