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Bioethics Archives


November 20, 2007

Human Skin Cells Do What Embryonic Stem Cells Can't

This work represents...the biological equivalent of the Wright Brothers' first airplane...It's a bit like learning how to turn lead into gold.Once again proving that Connecticut, New York, California and New Jersey have just soaked their residents with multibillions of tax-dollar-funded...

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August 27, 2007

"Big News" is really No News in the embryonic stem cell industry...

Why It Isn't Just The "Lady Justice Statue" That's Blindfolded The liberal media is just faint with breathless overexcitement today, oh, my: Human embryonic stem cells heal the hearts of rats. Pardon my Noo Yawk bluntness, but-- big freakin' whoop....

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July 13, 2007

What makes you a person?

According to Korean High Court, you become a person at a time coinciding with your mother's contractions:On July 9 the Supreme Court of South Korea stated that a human fetus is not a human person until the morning that the...

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June 17, 2007

Ellen Goodman's Latest Outright Falsehood

In her column this weekend, Goodman damns with faint praise the "genuine, bona fide scientific breakthrough" (her words, not mine) that "turned ordinary skin cells into the equivalent of embryonic stem cells...rais[ing] the possibility [of] mak[ing] stem cells without destroying...

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April 5, 2007

Is Baby Samuel surgery photo an Urban Legend?

*** UPDATE: Friend and reader Rachael pointed us to the Urban Legends site that says the description for the Baby Samuel photo is "inaccurate." It cites an Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper article from December 13, 2000, that says the baby's hand...

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April 4, 2007

TV Show Re-Enacts Unborn Baby Samuel's Hand Grasp of Surgeon's Finger

I wonder how many millions watched the TV show "HOUSE" last night, saw the tiny human hand of the unborn baby ("FETUS!" as the character Gregory House kept hissing up till that point) reach out during its fetal surgery to...

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April 3, 2007

Construction vs. development

Never thought of the debate like this before, but it's true. Excerpted from an op ed in YaleDailyNews.com, today: The central difference between the pro-choice and pro-life position, as first stated by Valparaiso law professor Richard Stith, is the subtle...

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March 9, 2007

Stem Cell Research Review

I thought it was time for an updated review on stem cell therapy at LifeEthics.org. For one thing , there are a couple of new reports about lung stem cells, one that is good news, and one example of the...

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January 25, 2007

Invasion of Privacy: State has no Business Mandating HPV Vaccine

No one wants the government rifling through his or her bank accounts. The FBI has no business perusing your grocery lists. The right of privacy is clear in this country. With very few exceptions, the government has no reason to...

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January 9, 2007

The Prolife Cause and the Coming Revolution: Abortion and the Death of Man

Abortion, the killing of the unwanted and defective, comes into its own as a subset in the eugenic, designer, control agenda of the brave new biotech world.

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December 16, 2006

Human Harvesting for Stem Cells Begins in Ukraine

The BBC is reporting that healthy new-born babie appear to have been killed in order to harvest stem cells for the flourish stem cell trade that has begun in the country. Dr. Hwang Woo-Sook was found last year to have...

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November 16, 2006

Adult Stem Cells, Muscular Dystrophy: Old News, Biased Coverage

It seems that about all I write on anymore is reporting bias. However, when the coverage of a report on a successful retroviral gene therapy, the identification of a specific population of stem cells, and the apparent cures in animal...

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November 10, 2006

We Need Sharing, Not Eggs or Embryos

Perhaps the stem cell scientists could begin to share their information more openly and much more quickly. Perhaps they could start a new tradition: prestige for rapid and frequent sharing of information that is immediately used and referenced by other scientists. Sort of like the prestige we bloggers aspire to.

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October 27, 2006

FRC Webcast "Missouri: The 'Clone-Me' State? The Politics Of Cloning And Stem Cells,"

The Family Research Council is doing a webcast about the Missouri embryonic stem cell debate at 11:00 am . Click here to go to the website for more information...

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October 10, 2006

World Gone Mad

Two great guest posts at Steve Ertelt's LifeNews illustrate the schizophrenic thinking of our world system. Wesley Smith reports on how the bioethical ground is already being prepared for reproductive cloning, while on another front, despite evidence that birthrates are...

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October 6, 2006

The Thuggery of Ethicists

Pamela F. Hennessy writes for the North Country Gazette:The October 2006 issue of the Journal of Medical Ethics (JME) features an opinion piece penned by Dr. Heather Draper of the Centre for Biomedical Ethics titled "Research and patients in a...

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September 13, 2006

Fetuses? You're soaking in them!

Click cartoon above for larger image. Women Paid to Carry Baby to 12 Weeks before “Harvesting” for Beauty Treatments - LifeSite A Barbaric Kind of Beauty - Daily Mail More Pro-Life cartoons can be found at faithmouse....

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August 7, 2006

A Democrat and a Republican ask Gates Foundation to fund human killing research

After losing the funding war by veto to President Bush, a Democrat and a Republican are pushing for the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation to fund this life killing research. "Rep. Diana DeGette, a Colorado Democrat, and Rep. Mike Castle,...

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July 25, 2006

The "embryos" only have us - Now is time for action

Isn't that immoral? On the contrary, they say it is more moral do it and compare women who kill their children to heros:

In such circumstances, selective pregnancy reduction could be regarded as a moral decision aimed at optimizing the quality of life after birth. Furthermore, given the heart-rendering nature of the decision, selective pregnancy reduction might even be considered laudable.

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June 26, 2006

Bioethics Rumble in Albany

According to his blog Wesley Smith will soon be taking a much deserved vacation, but not before he joins a bioethics conference in Albany along with Nigel Cameron who has written a bioethics column for Christianity Today. Wesley has predicted...

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June 4, 2006

The Economics of Life

The pro-life movement is celebrating victories that after over 30 years of Roe v Wade, the scourge of abortion, at least public support for it, has waned and is now the minority position. South Dakota passed an outright abortion ban...

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April 21, 2006

Personhood and Value

One of my favorite recent articles is Acorns and Embryos by Robert P. George and Patrick Lee. Here's a snippet:But personhood is not an accidental characteristic, that is, a characteristic which one acquires at some point after he exists and...

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April 20, 2006

Podcasting Bioethics

check it out (HT: Sharon Hughes)....

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