• Most of its members are not Native Americans and do not practice any particular tribe-based religion. (prisonlegalnews.org)
  • To practice this religion Morrison wished to possess a number of the same sacred items as Native Americans receive to practice their tribal-based religions. (prisonlegalnews.org)
  • The placebo effect, shamanistic slant and the abracadabra associated with Boka's medicine have since transformed this practice into an art. (acls.org)
  • This study seeks to find out why, despite attempts to undermine Bokanci by dominant social and cultural structures in Hausa society, the practice continues to endure and appeals to popular imagination through dramatic performances. (acls.org)
  • Benally is a traditional practitioner who works alongside her father who was the first medicine man to practice in a Western hospital. (wypr.org)
  • Thus, what was presented by state authorities as an attempt to protect citizens, actually threatens their safety, since such measures fuel intolerance and public hatred towards the groups mentioned in those lists, leading to severe marginalization of their followers and imposing on them a condition of fear and hesitation or assumed risk to profess and practice their beliefs. (eifrf-articles.org)
  • Most Shananawa practice folk religion and animism. (joshuaproject.net)
  • Including a bibliography, the Jewish calendar, and a detailed chronology, this illuminating and authoritative guide contains a wealth of data on every aspect of Jewish belief and practice, both ancient and modern. (lu.se)
  • and have begun to recognize the right of indigenous and ethnic populations to the practice, design, implementation and evaluation, in a participatory way, of policies, plans and programs geared towards integration of traditional and allopathic medicine, the implementation of traditional medicines within health systems and the provision of health services within a culturally contextualized frame. (bvsalud.org)
  • Or do a person's own religious beliefs -- our personal prayers -- have an effect on well-being? (webmd.com)
  • The bill would amend the Criminal Code to make it a summary offence to coerce or blackmail a person into performing medical procedures that offend that person's beliefs on religion and-or the inviolability of human life. (theinterim.com)
  • In contrast, in dissociative identity disorder, the alternate identity is unwanted, causes substantial distress and impairment, and appears in times and places that are inappropriate for the person's social situation, culture, and/or religion. (msdmanuals.com)
  • However, despite the challenges of modernity, institutionalized religions of Islam and Christianity are resolutely opposed to Bokaye (plural of Boka). (acls.org)
  • Christianity is the belief that our people turned to even our leadership so there's no guidance," Denny says. (wypr.org)
  • Troeltsch and his disciples of the 'history of religions' school were teaching that Christianity originated in a hotchpotch of Jewish, Greek and Oriental ideas resulting from the fission of nationalities within the Greek and Roman empires. (christendom-awake.org)
  • Schleiermacher's attempt to base Christianity on religious feeling or experience having failed, Christianity, as a religion of universal significance, seemed once again to be at its last gasp. (christendom-awake.org)
  • In contrast, non-westernized cultural groups generally have more unified traditions, beliefs, and practices surrounding death, and they more frequently have religious objections to autopsy. (medscape.com)
  • Although cultural or religious beliefs are often cited as a reason for opposition to autopsy, most religions and cultures find autopsy acceptable on the basis of either the individual's beliefs or under what are deemed to be special circumstances. (medscape.com)
  • [ 3 ] Certain religions have objections to autopsy (eg, Islam, Judaism) in that bodily intrusion violates the sanctity of keeping the human body complete, despite those religious doctrines not strictly forbidding it. (medscape.com)
  • Religious Beliefs. (everyculture.com)
  • The traditional concepts of health and illness have a magico-religious component that is not addressed by the newly introduced Western medicine. (everyculture.com)
  • The New Sciences of Religion is a critical analysis of new scientific research on religious and spiritual phenomena. (researchgate.net)
  • This is an original and compelling scientific interpretation of religion and also a religious interpretation of science that will challenge and delight students and scholars alike. (researchgate.net)
  • Religious beliefs are not the only reason parents are refusing to inoculate their children. (eurasianet.org)
  • Unlike evolution or global warming, whose basic validity is claimed to be "controversial" by the religious right, the controversy of human cloning revolves on whether or not it should be attempted, not whether or not it is even possible. (pandasthumb.org)
  • One will find that the 'new age' exploitation of American Indian spirituality is typically justified by being upheld as 'freedom of religion' and especially upheld as 'freedom of religious expression' when openly taught. (newagefraud.org)
  • Strong historical imprints of the traditional religions in a society, coupled with lack of education and understanding of various religious and spiritual systems, lead to increasing misunderstandings and polarization among populations. (eifrf-articles.org)
  • Societies continue to struggle with acceptance of alternative and unconventional currents, particularly within the established religious and spiritual frameworks, and state authorities attempt to preserve a dominant control of the field. (eifrf-articles.org)
  • Some of these lists are very extensive and even include groups that do not position themselves as religious or spiritual, but rather as dealing with wellness and alternative medicine. (eifrf-articles.org)
  • The majority, 108 (76.6%) opposed euthanasia and their reasons included religious beliefs, belief that euthanasia was unethical and fear of misuse. (who.int)
  • We also suggest that the study of religious belief has discouraged the adoption of an overarching framework for understanding our belief system in all its breadth. (bvsalud.org)
  • In recent years there has been increasing of beliefs in species that pass information on interest in the study of religious belief. (bvsalud.org)
  • consider carefully implications arising from Beliefs are formed through the acqui- evolutionary and cognitive science for the stu- sition of information via passive observa- dy of religious belief (Barret, 2007). (bvsalud.org)
  • Some beliefs are very difficult to era- gion, in common with an array of non-religious dicate even when contrary evidence is pre- beliefs, confer adaptive advantage. (bvsalud.org)
  • An interview survey was carried out in a rural village and two nearby schools in Qalyubia Governorate to assess the pattern of smoking and knowledge about religious ruling (Fatwa) and its impact on the quit attempts. (who.int)
  • Our results point to the need for intensive efforts on the part of religious leaders to translate the current belief that smoking is a sin into quitting among smokers. (who.int)
  • Different traditions, beliefs, and practices surrounding death are common to all cultures and religions, and they have resulted in conflict regarding anatomic dissections and postmortem examinations. (medscape.com)
  • But it won't do for other cultures, whose religions are God's instrument for speaking to them. (christendom-awake.org)
  • Pacific island population" refers to people from the islands of Melanesia, the Federated States of Micronesia and Polynesia, 5 although populations from these different regions are heterogeneous with diverse cultures, languages and religions. (who.int)
  • In many cultures, similar possession states are a normal part of the local culture or religion and are not considered a disorder. (msdmanuals.com)
  • In the Concise Companion to the Jewish Religion, Jacobs brings comprehension and understanding to the many complex and important issues of Judaism. (lu.se)
  • [ 1 ] People from more westernized or diverse environments tend to have less cohesive connections with traditions, religion, and beliefs, and have a greater acceptance of autopsies. (medscape.com)
  • Between 1883 and 1996, more than 150,000 First Nation, Métis and Inuit children were placed in residential schools in an attempt to eradicate their language, cultural traditions and spiritual beliefs, and assimilate them into Canadian society. (ucalgary.ca)
  • This study examines the representation of Boka (the medicine man) in Hausa dramatic traditions. (acls.org)
  • The New Sciences of Religion then asks what in religion and spirituality might also be true and profound when our received traditions are reinterpreted in light of contemporary sciences. (researchgate.net)
  • others see them as an attempt to prevent God's will," Kalilov told EurasiaNet.org. (eurasianet.org)
  • Applied ethics is a broad discipline in philosophy attempts to apply ethical theory to real-life situations, and has many specialized fields including engineering ethics, geoethics, public service ethics and other particular fields which students can choose to focus their graduate studies in. (gradschools.com)
  • this is the study of ethics that has formed as a result of advances in medicine and biology, and is concerned with questions that come up in biotechnology, politics, law, medicine and philosophy. (gradschools.com)
  • Choosing a program can be a question of determining where one's interests lie, and what potential vocational aspiration one is trying to attain, or whether the Master's in Ethics is a stepping-stone towards earning a Ph.D in ethics , Law or Even Medicine. (gradschools.com)
  • For this reason, interest-based lending has been always restricted by the authorities through legislative, administrative and financial arrangements, religion and ethics. (researchgate.net)
  • A few foods for thought as to the conflict between ethics in medicine and shortage of personnel and financial resources in the coronavirus disease 2019 era are offered as well. (bvsalud.org)
  • At the start of the twenty-first century, the persecution and murder perpetrated by the Nazi regime have become the subjects of an enormous literature in multiple academic disciplines and a touchstone of public and intellectual discourse in such diverse fields as politics, ethics and religion. (lu.se)
  • Part Five,Aftereffects, explores the Holocaust's impact on politics and ethics, education and religion, national identities and international relations, the prospects for genocide prevention, and the defense of human rights. (lu.se)
  • The religion of the internet has also already culminated in real-world violence, the most obvious examples being the QAnon-related coup on January 6 and the conspiracy theories surrounding lifesaving vaccines . (vox.com)
  • Examples of this are beliefs held by Among the several definitions, whi- supporters of intelligent design, young ear- ch vary by academic field, philosophical th creationists, and adepts of dogmatic poli- approaches have a tendency to define be- tical theories holding such beliefs. (bvsalud.org)
  • Each medicine person specializes in different ceremonies. (wypr.org)
  • The teachings which the 'new age' community collectively refers to as 'shamanism' always consist of a random assortment of the myths, beliefs, ceremonies, folk tales, and symbolism of unrelated American Indian/First Nations Tribes. (newagefraud.org)
  • The Worldwide Church of God [now named Grace Communion International] … has changed its position on numerous long-held beliefs and practices during the past few years. (jwfacts.com)
  • The beliefs of the people were expressed in their everyday lives and through their spiritual practices. (nativespiritinfo.com)
  • These traditional and ancestral medicines encompass a complex, systematized and integral body of wisdom, knowledge and practices that span thousands of years and are transmitted inter-generationally within each culture's ways of life. (bvsalud.org)
  • He believes the refusals, which are more common in conservative southern Kyrgyzstan, are related to the growing popularity of various religions, especially Islam. (eurasianet.org)
  • Over the last three years, Kalilov has seen a growing number of parents decline to give their children basic vaccines that modern medicine considers essential. (eurasianet.org)
  • As the preeminent representative of American scholarship in the humanities and interpretive social sciences, ACLS holds a core belief that knowledge is a public good. (acls.org)
  • Part Two,Protagonists, concentrates on the principal persons and groups involved in the Holocaust and attempts to disaggregate the conventional interpretive categories of perpetrator, victim, and bystander. (lu.se)
  • The fundamental goal is to protect and/ or to save the followers of the particular belief. (nova.edu)
  • I agree with Steve that it was encouraging that Dr. Briggs apparently reads this blog and shares many of our concerns about NCCAM , the poor science that it has funded, and its use by promoters of unscientific medicine to promote their quackery. (sciencebasedmedicine.org)
  • Tergel Munkhsaikhan, right, head of Sud-Pharm pharmacy in Orkhon province, explains the uses and effectiveness of traditional medicines to Oyu-Erdene Battumur. (worldcrunch.com)
  • The particular emphasis in the program is the attempt to teach principles of moral responsibility in thought, belief, and action to promote the values of democracy in our pluralistic culture. (westliberty.edu)
  • The government's attempts to destroy the culture and spiritual beliefs of the Indians were comprehensive and brutal. (nativespiritinfo.com)
  • The Black Death decimated Medieval Europe and had a major effect on the continent's socioeconomic development, culture, art, religion, and politics ( 4 , 5 ). (cdc.gov)
  • The most dramat- health care, as well as common health care beliefs in each culture, ic population change in northwest Arkansas is among Hispanic the role of family in each culture, and the history of each com- and Pacific Islander populations, which increased approximately munity in the region. (cdc.gov)
  • Oyunchimeg Murdorj, a senior expert in charge of traditional medicine at the Ministry of Health, says the contents of the kits are based on recommendations from doctors and researchers. (worldcrunch.com)
  • Mongolia's doctors endorse traditional medicine - but in conjunction with modern medicine, not in place of it. (worldcrunch.com)
  • Doctors invent viruses to sell medicines. (eurasianet.org)
  • I spoke to a group of doctors, including a past and a present editor from the New England Journal of Medicine, in Philadelphia this past February at a conference sponsored by The Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine. (rosemaryjacobs.com)
  • The goal of the program is to produce the attitude of critical awareness of one's assumptions, beliefs, and claims to knowledge in the context of the above- listed skills in order to help students to be more effective citizens and practitioners in their chosen professions. (westliberty.edu)
  • The paper argues that the study of belief as a modern scientific discipline will require consideration of the evolutionary context through which the neural pathways associated with belief formation, maintenance and endorsement have emerged. (bvsalud.org)
  • Ancestral and Indigenous populations in the Americas structured their own ways of maintaining harmony, preventing imbalance, and recovering health towards achieving well-being through what has been termed Traditional Medicines (or traditional ancestral medicines, ancestral medicines and indigenous medicine, depending on the cultural context of each nation). (bvsalud.org)
  • The European Medicines Agency has said there is a link between the drug Pandemrix and the sleeping disorder narcolepsy in young people. (thejournal.ie)
  • The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has completed a review into the use of the drug Pandemrix to establish if there is a link between it and cases of narcolepsy in young people in Sweden and Finland. (thejournal.ie)
  • At the present time, fifty percent of the people admitted to schools of law and medicine have a strong background in Philosophy. (westliberty.edu)
  • Even when faced with pressures from the Dominent Society to adopt new ways of living and beliefs, the Kiowa people today have retained both memories and culteral elements of the Sun Dance from the past. (sterneck.net)
  • Her beliefs are reminiscent of many others on the internet, people who speak of "bad vibes," demonic spirits, or a cosmic calamity looming just over the horizon, one that the government may be trying to keep secret. (vox.com)
  • When people talk about the art in addition to the science of medicine, it is because they somehow recognize this to be appropriate for an activity where mortals toil at the threshold of the spiritual world. (weeksmd.com)
  • Over the last several decades the tribe has gone from a thousand Diné or Navajo medicine people to just 300. (wypr.org)
  • What use was Harnack's simple religion of the heavenly Father's love, universal benevolence, progress, and the belief that men would be naturally good if they were only given the right ideas, to people who had just come through the horrors of the First 203 World War and the collapse of the old European order? (christendom-awake.org)
  • Jim spends 0% of his time actually promoting a Gospel and 100% of his time attempting to con people into paying extortionate prices for his fake cures and end-times food buckets. (skeptical-science.com)
  • These 2 documentaries and the special features came about as a result of a Crow Medicine Man and Sun Dance chief's (Thomas Yellowtail) desire to preserve the sacred wisdom of his people. (nativespiritinfo.com)
  • In American Indian tradition sacred knowledge was given from the medicine fathers to those individuals in the tribe who lived their lives in conformity to the spiritual ideals of their people. (nativespiritinfo.com)
  • Morrison was purposefully and intentionally treated differently from Native American prisoners who sincerely possess beliefs virtually identical to those held by Morrison. (prisonlegalnews.org)
  • Traditional Diné medicine practitioner Jeneda Benally, pictured here with her daughter Dahi, is trying to preserve cultural wisdom in danger of being lost during the pandemic. (wypr.org)
  • Some of the Shanenawa elders are involved in Brazilian politics in an attempt to preserve their ancient way of life and keep their ownership of their lands. (joshuaproject.net)
  • This authorization by Yellowtail gave Fitzgerald a unique visual record that helped to accomplish Yellowtail's desire to preserve and explain the Sun Dance religion for future generations. (nativespiritinfo.com)
  • Any attempt, whether benevolent or otherwise, to explain that what is being taught is indeed inaccurate and potentially harmful will be furiously denounced as an attempt to deny the same. (newagefraud.org)
  • In the end, there is no grand unified theory of religion and none of the many scientific explanations of religion preclude that religions have intuited, experienced, and discovered true and profound insights into the nature of ultimate reality and human existence. (researchgate.net)
  • The Problem - Surveys have shown that in the United States, Catholic belief in the real presence is declining. (legalethicsandreform.com)
  • These points might include the following: adherence to and belief in the precepts of the Roman Catholic Church, freedom from serious sin, belief in the real presence, etc. 2) Have the priest say THIS IS THE BODY OF CHRIST rather than the shortened version THE BODY OF CHRIST. (legalethicsandreform.com)
  • Most heartening of all was that she appeared to recognize how much CAM is infused with anti-vaccine beliefs and, worse, the promotion of these beliefs to the detriment of public health. (sciencebasedmedicine.org)
  • Exactly how the 'new age' communities determine what beliefs should be 'borrowed' from other systems of spirituality is not known. (newagefraud.org)
  • To determine some choices of belief as derived from "mental manipulation" risks to corrupt the right of self-determination at a fundamental level. (eifrf-articles.org)
  • As in the rest of medicine, patients likely do not share an identical view with their physician of what constitutes an illness. (medscape.com)
  • Using insights from economics, evolutionary psychology, the neurosciences, and medicine, Grassie develops a complex and multifaceted understanding of religion as potentially functional and dysfunctional in specific contexts, differentially so for individuals and groups. (researchgate.net)
  • The Economics of Religion 4. (researchgate.net)
  • This paper argues that some of the strong beliefs held by humans have deep biological roots in our evolutionary past, and the neuronal pathways and structures that support them can be found in other species. (bvsalud.org)
  • Rather than operating as genuinely adaptive phenomena associated with evolutionary advantage, we suggest that belief systems emerge as a by-product of evolutionary pressures. (bvsalud.org)
  • All of these methods deal with problems of justification of belief and claims to knowledge in the pursuit of truth. (westliberty.edu)
  • Our ancestors left us with a rich source of knowledge of traditional medicine," says Dr. Bold Sharav, a professor of traditional medicine at the Mongolian International School of Medicine. (worldcrunch.com)
  • Knowledge about the Fatwa on smoking or belief that smoking is a sin had no significant effect on quit attempts. (who.int)
  • I am still attempting to find the websites you mentioned in your letter but have not yet been successful. (rosemaryjacobs.com)
  • Often sceptical and being ironic on human values as morality, benevolence and proper behavior, Taoist writers don't share the Confucean belief in civilisation as a way to build a better society, they rather share the will to leave alone in mountains with wild animals, or as simple peasants in small autarcic villages. (thelemapedia.org)
  • This behavior is seen at some level in all religions. (nova.edu)
  • Most countries worldwide imposed a quarantine or lockdown to their citizens, in an attempt to prevent uncontrolled infection from spreading. (bvsalud.org)
  • She and her husband got vaccinated last year, but she credits their use of traditional medicine - both homemade and supplied by a nearby clinic - for strengthening their immune systems. (worldcrunch.com)
  • Mongolia's traditional medicine has 5,000 years of history, but nearly disappeared forever due to an official ban between 1922 and 1990. (worldcrunch.com)
  • In the last two years, Mongolian scientists have experimentally validated more than 50 types of medicinal plants and started using them for medical treatments," says L. Batkhuu, coordinator of foreign projects for the Institute of Traditional Medicine and Technology, a research center that also operates a hospital and pharmaceutical factory. (worldcrunch.com)
  • Oyunchimeg counters that the Ministry of Health has helped bolster traditional medicine practitioners through training and research centers. (worldcrunch.com)
  • Research in traditional medicine has improved in recent years," she says. (worldcrunch.com)
  • Pharmacists across the country say they were not prepared for the pandemic-related surge in traditional medicine requests, and they expect the interest to outlive the virus itself. (worldcrunch.com)
  • Through contacts made during the Second World War, many French and German Catholics discovered for the first time the virtues and love of Christ of their Protestant brothers and came to a better appreciation of the beliefs they had in common with them, which in turn, when the war was over, led to interest in the movement for Christian unity. (christendom-awake.org)
  • We subscribe to the view that meme is used as a shortcut to refer to in- religion spreads among humans not because of formation that is passed from mind to mind an alleged innate tendency to believe in gods, and spread in a population. (bvsalud.org)
  • The third and final emphasis is placed on the beliefs of the membership itself, probably to foster a sense of community unity and to attempt to convince the members that they are not being mislead, but rather are important contributors to the continuity of the 'new age' community itself. (newagefraud.org)
  • Born in 1898, Paul Tournier, a physician from Geneva, Switzerland, has spent years applying his Christian faith and Biblical understanding to the field of medicine and the treatment of human problems. (danmusicktheology.com)
  • From the very beginning of the pandemic, there has been a steady drumbeat of scientific criticism of the policy of total quarantine - the name I will give to the attempt to keep SARS COV-2 at bay until a vaccine can be administered to all. (wildculture.com)
  • Describing women as silent and silenced brought attention to the dominance of the masculine voice in politics, law, medicine, and the media and the near absence of women's words and perspectives in these public political forums. (cdlib.org)
  • I asked Joseph Russo, a professor of anthropology at Wesleyan University, if this loosely related web of beliefs could ever come together to form into its own kind of religion. (vox.com)
  • Back at the University of Edinburgh, Doyle became increasingly invested in Spiritualism or "Psychic religion," a belief system that he would in the tune of attempt to impinge on on through a series of his written works. (merijeevankahani.com)
  • The risks are the big ones -- death, stroke, heart attack ," says his doctor, Mitchell Krucoff, MD, a cardiovascular specialist at Duke University School of Medicine in Durham, N.C. (webmd.com)
  • He was awarded a BA in philosophy with honors from the University of Ottawa, then entered the medicine program at the University of Toronto. (theinterim.com)
  • The study was done among the final-year students of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan. (who.int)
  • b School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales, New South Wales, Australia. (who.int)
  • Researchers at the O'Brien Institute for Public Health at the Cumming School of Medicine (CSM) are working with the Métis Nation of Alberta to promote health equity and understand the relationship between Métis identity and well-being. (ucalgary.ca)
  • Taoism or Daoism is usually described as an Asian philosophy and religion, although it is also said to be neither but rather an aspect of Chinese wisdom. (thelemapedia.org)
  • It's still in its infancy, and has evolved in an attempt to correct a societal wrong: that the world is a pretty fucked up place and it doesn't seem like the current system of dealing with it is really working, so maybe something else is going on, something just out of reason's reach. (vox.com)
  • Any belief system that upholds kindness to our fellow human beings, animals, and nature, any system that promotes charity, truth, honesty, empathy, forgiveness and service to others will produce a blooming sense of being. (jamaica-gleaner.com)
  • 2015-November 30, 2016) and qualitative data about implementa- of Medicine found strong evidence of racial bias in health care tion at 2 points: immediately after each session and 6 months after system policies and in interpersonal interactions (15). (cdc.gov)
  • Although the depth may vary, every history of present illness should attempt to elicit information on certain topics. (medscape.com)
  • The criminalization targets particularly minority religions and spiritual movements. (eifrf-articles.org)
  • 12.00 - 14.30: Morning session: Minority religions and spiritual movements are specifically targeted by "mind manipulation" laws. (eifrf-articles.org)
  • In this educational paper, a historical overview from the sacred temples of ancient Greece-the cradle of medicine-to modern hospitals, along with the conceive of healthcare systems, is provided. (bvsalud.org)
  • The non-Indians have mistranslated the Kiowa word and called the ceremony the Ka-do, and also sometimes called the Medicine Dance, undoubtably because of the ceremonial significance of the event. (sterneck.net)
  • His thoughts on health and illness and on the possibilities and limitations of medicine are testimony to his comprehensive philosophical education as well as to his belief in God as ruler of the world and of human life. (bvsalud.org)
  • If illness occurred in this or any other way, medicine was there to help and its success or failure depended on divine providence. (bvsalud.org)
  • At any rate, once the collective beliefs are decided upon, they are then combined into 'rituals' which are supposed to gain the performer any number of benefits such as material wealth, becoming irresistable to the opposite sex, various (and vague) form of personal 'enlightenment,' the ability to see and converse with 'spirits,' et cetera. (newagefraud.org)
  • In many ways it is a form of preventative medicine. (jamaica-gleaner.com)
  • In this paper the word form of belief. (bvsalud.org)
  • It has been a commonly held belief, however, no matter the method used, that the spirit can have an effect on the body. (scientology-hamburg.org)
  • In medicine, the blending of confidentiality and privacy has always been a strong yet sensitive element, helping to establish the bond in the clinician-patient relationship. (nova.edu)
  • Historically (especially during the 1400s - 1600s) religion had a pretty good grip on what information should be disseminated and what information should be protected. (nova.edu)
  • Also incorporated into this 'shamanism' are the beliefs of any number of world religions (i.e. (newagefraud.org)
  • Primarily, the personal interpretations and beliefs of the community leader will be followed. (newagefraud.org)
  • Psychoanalysis attempts to peel away at these mental layers but is limited because of the negligible attention it gives to subtle thoughts that affect us. (jamaica-gleaner.com)
  • Haidasz later strongly opposed, then sponsored eight amendments to, Bill C-43, the controversial 1991 attempt by the government of Brian Mulroney to enact a new abortion law. (theinterim.com)