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A New Prayer Initiative: Perpetual Adoration to End AbortionCanadians for Renewal are endeavoring to set up Perpetual Adoration of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament all across Canada. The sole purpose being to petition our Lord asking for the conversion of hearts, so that all people will acknowledge the unborn as persons with rights under the law.
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Canadian Hospice Association Slammed for Abandoning Opposition to Euthanasia
CHPCA has changed its language to preferred language of Right to Die lobby
By Hilary White
OTTAWA, January 9, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – While stopping just short of endorsing physician-assisted suicide (PAS) or euthanasia, the Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association (CHPCA) has issued an ostensibly neutral draft statement that proposes to withdraw its previous specific opposition to the practice. Euthanasia opponents, however, have denounced the document saying the move is tantamount to abandoning dying and vulnerable patients “to their fears and depression”.
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Saving your childs Cord Blood Could save your life!
By Camilla Gunnarson
What is cord blood?
Medical research has shown that a baby’s own umbilical cord blood can be a life-saving source. The period immediately following the birth of a baby is a unique moment for parents to collect cord blood stem cells and save them for future use.
Umbilical cord blood stem cells are created during the development of a baby throughout pregnancy. These stem cells are readily found in the fetal circulation and umbilical cord. Therefore, at the time of delivery, parents can harvest, process, and store these cells. What was once routinely discarded and treated as waste can now be used as valuable source of life-saving stem cells.
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Reprinted with permission from Life Canada
By John-Henry Westen
Questions Answered on Organ Donation: Interview with Dr. John B. Shea M.D.
He says ethical heart transplant not yet possible because of difficulty of determining certain death
TORONTO, February 17, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - With the Ontario Legislature entertaining a private members bill to institute presumed consent on organ donation, many questions are being asked on the matter. LifeSiteNews.com asked Dr. John B. Shea, an M.D. who has written extensively on the ethics of organ donation, questions submitted by LifeSiteNews.com readers.
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