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Title: Women's Health at Risk - Abortion and Informed Consent

[DVD]

Dr. Deborah Zeni

The deVeber Institute

Purple Cloth Productions

$20

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Speaking from the extensive research in Women's Health After Abortion: The Medical and Psychological Evidence and her own experience treating young post-abortive women in her practise as a family physician, Dr. Deborah Zeni shares her expertise in this deVeber Institute public lecture.

This DVD includes factual and statistical information about the medical and psychological risks associated with abortion. Dr. Zeni also shares how women are affected, and what this research means for health care professionals.

Title: A Medical Detective Story; What You Felt Before You Were Born

[DVD]

Dr. Paul Ranalli

$20

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A neurologist reveals surprising facts about prenatal development that have only recently come to light. Dr. Paul Ranalli, MD, FRCPC, explains the science and politics of fetal pain during this deVeber Institute annual public lecture.

Title: Compassionate End of Life Care; For Adults with Developmental Disabilities

[DVD]

$20

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Learn about end of life care from:

Susan Morgan, MDiv, Community chaplain for Saint Elizabeth Health Care, York Region, Ontario, Canada.
Paul Zeni, MD, Family physician and palliative care consultant for North Halton, Ontario, Canada.
Jane Powell, graduate of a certificate program in grief and bereavement and co-facilitator of a grief group for members of L'Arche Toronto with developmental disabilities.

Title: Women's Health after Abortion: The Medical and Psychological Evidence (Second Edition)

[Book]

Elizabeth Ring-Cassidy & Ian Gentles

de Veber Institute (April, 2003)

$24.95

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Women's Health after Abortion is based on over 500 articles that have appeared in medical and other journals, chiefly during the past twenty years. Much of the information has been extracted from papers whose primary focus was not abortion. Some of the consequences of abortion do not surface until long after the procedure, or, as in the case of infertility, remain undetected until the woman wishes to bear a child. Yet at present many studies rely on short-term findings; furthermore, researchers often minimize the significance of their findings, and sometimes even arrive at conclusions that flatly contradict their data.

The difficulties surrounding the study of abortion have only increased with the dramatic rise over the past decade in the number of procedures performed in clinics, where follow-up of patients is minimal or non-existent. Nonetheless, what research there is, shows that abortion is the source of serious physical and psychological problems for a significant number of women.

Title: Euthanasia & Assisted Suicide: The Current Debate

[Book]

Stoddart Publishing (1995)

Ian Gentles

$17 (Cdn), $14 (US)

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The signs are everywhere: the final taboo has been breached; death has come out of the closet.

In recent years, euthanasia has become a subject of passionate debate. Questions have been raised about health care, about pain control, about assisted suicide and about the implications of the legalization of euthanasia. Nowhere is the more apparent than in the Sue Rodriguez, and Robert and Tracy Latimer cases.

One thing is certain: the issue is not going to go away. Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: The Current Debate is a an important and timely overview of the problems of palliative care of the terminally ill, assisted suicide, euthanasia, and the law, written by major Canadian contributors, including: Ian Hunter, Ian Gentles, Dr. John Scott, and Robert Nadeau. This will form an essential part of any collection on bioethics and contemporary legal and social issues.

Title: Going It Alone: Unplanned Single Motherhood in Canada

[Book]

deVeber Institute (1994)

J. Ajzenstat, E. Cassidy, E. Carter, G. Bierling

$10 (Cdn), $8 (US)

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An original research study documenting significant aspects of unplanned crisis pregnancies that ended in single parenting by the mother. A wide range of Canadian women, as well as service agencies, were surveyed. This work looks at important components in the single mothers' lives, including their support network of family and friends, and the role of the baby's father, and examines the decision-making process in these women's lives and determining factors.

The results of the research were sometimes surprising. Very few of the mothers felt they needed more government programs for housing and day care and most were not dependent on welfare. However, a significant percentage identified prejudice against single mothers as a problem, and a long-term concern in their lives.

This report is formed out of the words of these women and the agencies that serve them and will be of great interest to anyone personally or professionally connected to single mothers.

Title: A Time to Choose Life:Women, Abortion and Human Rights

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Stoddard Publishing (1990)

Ian Gentles

$13 (Cdn), $10 (US)

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The great abortion debate in Canada has often produced more smoke than fire, with pro-abortion and anti-abortion forces lobbing ideological epitithets at each other without adequately clearing the ground for responsible discussion.

Nevertheless, because the abortion issue is at the heart of our view of life and hopes for society, the best minds on both sides have been developing more sophisticated thinking and writing. Here, argued clearly and dispassionately, are essays on women, abortion and human rights. Eminent scholars and doctors George Grant, Samuel and Janet Ajzenstat, Heather Morris, Ian Hunter, Ian Gentles, Denyse O'Leary and others review the ideological issues and examine the medical implications and consequences of abortion. They also critique the legal decisions that made Canada unique in placing no restrictions on abortion.