Posted on 06/28/2006 5:28:43 AM PDT by wagglebee
OTTAWA, June 27, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) has announced that it will allow the creation of living human embryos specifically for research purposes.
Although pro-life advocates working to kill the Liberal government’s 2002 Assisted Reproduction Act predicted that embryonic stem cell research would be the next move--although the bill purported to protect against this type of research--they were roundly criticized as “alarmist” during the debates over the bill. Meanwhile, biotech lobbyists have worked steadily to find ways around the legislation or simply to amend it to get what they wanted: “fresh” embryos made to order purely for research purposes. And now they have gotten what they wanted.
The National Post reports that the project has been approved with a $523,000 budget. It will be led by researchers in Toronto and will involve teams in Vancouver and Hamilton. The goal is to cultivate embryonic stem cells both from embryos ‘left over’ and frozen after IVF treatments and to create in vitro embryos specifically to be killed for their cells.
The Post says that Canadian ethicists working on the issue are not concerned with the moral status of the embryos themselves. The issues raised last year when a moratorium was called for on embryonic research surrounded the rights of women not to be exploited for their ova and fears of coercion.
Consent forms for parents of embryos have to include all possible options and state clearly that the embryos will die as a result of the work.
A lead researcher in the group, Dr. Andras Nagy told the Post he sees nothing wrong with the research. “There are embryos going down the drain all the time,” Dr. Nagy said. “It's a biological waste.”
Campaign Life Coalition, Canada’s leading pro-life organization that led the fight against the bill, is calling on Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who opposed the legislation, to stop the research and focus Canadian funds instead on ethically unproblematic adult stem cells.
“I expect Mr. Harper and the federal government to reign in the CIHR, which at this time answers to the Minister of Health but not the government,” said Mary Ellen Douglas, CLC National Organizer.
The CIHR has frankly acknowledged that it considers the human being at the embryonic stage as having no inherent moral status and that it can and should be used for research. The only ethical requirement acknowledged by Canada’s leading bioethicists is that the parents, or “donors,” of the embryos give consent.
Dr. Mengele is smiling from the most evil corner of hell.
Pro-Life Ping.
Oh Canada.
Not sure if you want this for your list.
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Canadians to Create “Fresh” Human Embryos for Research Purposes
There is no doubt in my mind that the Nazis would have done the same thing if they had the capability.
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Woe to the soul of one whom prolongs his life by the extinction of another.
What is it with Canada?
I'm really starting to think that some kind of serious retribution is inevitable.
Breeding humans for parts is the end of civilization, folks. The stuff of campy B Science Fiction/Horror movies from the past.
Western society needs to have a great rethinking of this separation of science from morality BS. Who died and left the Frankensteins in charge???
Genetic cannibalism
A friend of mine just went through two months of he!! to conceive, and it failed. Poor guy is $20,000 poorer, and he and his wife's IVF little girl did not implant, and she died.
Just d@mn.........
In other words, Canadians are now farming themselves.
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