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Medical Ethics Archives


December 4, 2007

More Evidence: Childbirth Isn't More Life-Threatening to Mothers Than Abortion

This is sadly worth noting only for the reason that, far too often when discussing the increased risks of maternal death from having an abortion, pro-choice folks defend to the death the disproven belief that "more women die from childbirth...

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September 16, 2007

The Forgotten Cost of "Choice"

The stories of each of the women named in that montage on YouTube come from court documents, medical journal articles, autopsy reports, news stories, and online sources. The dates range from the 19th century to the 21st century. The...

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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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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 13, 2007

New book on surviving life-threatening morning sickness

"Beyond Morning Sickness"... by Ashli A friend of ours has written a very practical book about the difficult pregnancies she's had due to her inabilities to keep from throwing up, much worse than normal morning sickness...it's called Hyperemesis Gravidarum, or...

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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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February 13, 2007

FOX News Aids Abortion Industry Fear-Mongering with "Did Motherhood Kill Anna Nicole Smith?"

For those who say FOX NEWS is too right-wing, this shoots that kind of to hell: "Did Motherhood Kill Anna Nicole Smith?" Thursday , February 08, 2007, by Dr. Manny Alvarez I am not the first to admonish FOX NEWS...

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February 7, 2007

NEJM survey: doctors against abortion, for consciences

I've posted a couple of comments (here and here) on the New England Journal of Medicine article, "Religion, Conscience, and Controversial Practices" on LifeEthics.org. The majority of the docs in the survey object to abortion for contraceptive failure and nearly...

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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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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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December 6, 2006

"The Pink Kitchen Sink in the Livingroom" That TIME Still Ignores.

This was my second letter today, now over two weeks and at least two issues since the first, to TIME Magazine's John Huey, Editor-in-Chief, James Kelly, Managing Editor, Ann S. Moore, Chairman, CEO, Nora P. McAniff, Co-Chief Operating Officer, Richard...

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November 16, 2006

Critical Care of Babies Born and Unborn

The Nuffield Bioethics Council has published its report, "Critical care decisions in fetal and neonatal medicine: ethical issues." You can read the entire report in pdf form , my summary at LifeEthics.org, which includes links to other people's summaries, including...

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