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Canadian Abortion Statistics for 2004 |
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Statistics Canada reported that there were 100,039
induced abortions performed on Canadian women in 2004. Data on induced
abortions performed on Canadian women in the United States is no longer
collected as of 2004. Manitoba did not report numbers for induced abortions
obtained in clinics in the province. The number of induced abortions recorded
for every 100 live births was 29.7% .
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A l’Hôpital d’ Ottawa … beau succès avec cellules souches. |
En 1996, à l’âge de 21 ans, pleine de rêve pour l’avenir, Jennifer Molson commence à ressentir un engourdissement au bras et à la main gauche. Elle reçoit à la suite le diagnostic que son malaise est causé par la sclérose en plaques. En fin d’année 2001, si fatiguée que des fois, elle ne peut se tenir debout, et ne peut se vêtir seule ou couper sa nourriture, elle a recours au fauteuil roulant. Elle apprend alors à l’Hôpital d’Ottawa qu’il lui serait possible de prendre part à un essai clinique qui pourrait peut-être ralentir la progression de sa maladie. Ce traitement à l’aide de cellules souches adultes conçu par le Dr. Harold Atkins, hématoloque et le Dr. Mark Freedman, neurologue à l’hôpital consiste à complètement détruire le système immunitaire ayant recours à la chimiothérapie. A la suite, la restauration du système immunitaire procède grâce à une transplantation de cellules souches sanguines.
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When Patricia Ommerli took her garbage out from her apartment
blockhouse, she always made sure she timed it carefully. She didn’t
want to meet a corpse in her elevator.
Ms. Ommerli is not an actor in a B horror movie. According to the July
13 issue of the UK paper, The Guardian, she was one of many residents
unhappy about sharing living quarters with Dignitas, an
assisted-suicide organization in Zurich, Switzerland. “Because the lift
is too small for coffins, the bodies are transported in bags, which are
then propped up in the corner of the elevator...It’s horrid,”
complained another resident to the British Medical Journal last month.
Fed up with their ghoulish neighbours and chance encounters with body
bags, tenants filed complaints, and authorities have since ordered
Dignitas to move its grisly business elsewhere.
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Partial-Birth Abortion Ban |
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When Brenda Pratt Shafer, a registered nurse, was asked to work at the
Dayton, Ohio Women’s Medical Center assisting abortions in 1993, she
readily agreed. After all, she considered herself “very pro-choice” and
figured it would be no problem. She was wrong.
After an initial interview, she was hired to assist abortionist Dr.
Martin Haskell. Her first two days on the job were rattling. She hadn’t
expected that Dr. Haskell would use ultrasound during his Dilation
& Evacuation (D&E) abortions and that she would actually see
the baby being torn apart. But nothing could have prepared her for what
she saw on her third day at the abortion clinic—a partial-birth
abortion.
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