Mexican secretary of health opposes freezing embryos as country debates issue
If federal legislators follow his lead, Mexico will join Germany, Italy, and Costa Rica in prohibiting the freezing of embryos.
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Bioethics
‘Gift of time’ made the difference between life and death for brain-injured mother in coma
“How many other patients have died or become non-heartbeating organ donors before given a similar chance?” wondered Nancy Valko, a Registered Nurse for 42 years who serves on medical and nursing ethics committees.
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Radio station runs $35,000 promotional competition to “Win a Baby”
“It turns a child into a consumer product and encourages the trade in innocent human life,” said Jim Hughes of Campaign Life Coalition.
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Valuable advice: don’t buy ‘fresh’ semen on the Internet says Health Canada
If you've been shopping around online and think you've found the semen of your dreams, you might want to think again before you click that "checkout" button, according to Health Canada.
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UK guidelines may strip pharmacists of conscience rights on morning after pill
Required to refer a customer to a named pharmacist who is willing to distribute the abortifacient drugs.
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IVF mom confesses: I wouldn’t have aborted my twin if I had conceived naturally
“If I had conceived these twins naturally, I wouldn’t have reduced this pregnancy, because you feel like if there’s a natural order, then you don’t want to disturb it," said "Jenny."
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Costa Rica hauled to international court for resisting IVF
Costa Rica is the only country in the West to ban IVF after its high court in 2000 called the practice unconstitutional because it violated the right to life of the embryo, whom the court called "a person from the moment of conception."
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Israeli court allows dead girl’s eggs to be harvested
In the precedent-setting case, the 17-year-old's parents had wanted her eggs to be fertilized, though they appear to have had a change of heart.
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New lab-grown sperm not a moral solution to male infertility
Yesterday, news of the first successful production of healthy mice offspring using sperm from embryonic stem cells was published.
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Vatican Cardinal Burke: In today’s society ‘morality has ceased to exist’
Cardinal Raymond Burke, head of the Vatican’s highest court, delivered a dire yet hopeful message about the current state of society.
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