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Silence on Three-Parent Embryos is Deafening

by Rebecca Taylor

by Rebecca Taylor on Mar 04, 2015 in Cloning, Embryo Research & Genetics, Featured, Reproductive Technology

I will be honest. I am tired. I am angry. I am frustrated. This is likely an uncharacteristically emotional post because, after nearly a decade of writing about biotechnology, I am uncharacteristically horrified. The UK has officially approved the creation of embryos with three genetic parents, and babies created with this technique are likely to […]

A New Year’s Resolution for You

by Zachary Gappa

by Zachary Gappa on Jan 07, 2015 in Cloning, Embryo Research & Genetics, Euthanasia & Assisted Suicide, Featured, Reproductive Technology, Science

New Year’s Resolutions tend towards the personal: lose weight, take up a hobby, spend more time with the family, get up earlier, read great books, etc. But this new year I beg people to take some time to learn more about bioethics. The stakes are high. Our definitions of life, death, and human dignity are […]

Today’s Three-Parent Kids Are Not the Same As Tomorrow’s Three-Parent Kids

by Rebecca Taylor

by Rebecca Taylor on Oct 01, 2014 in Cloning, Embryo Research & Genetics, Featured, Reproductive Technology

Many people are not aware that there are already about two dozen kids in the United States that have been genetically modified. A recent headline exclaims that “The World’s First Genetically Modified Babies Will Graduate High School This Year.” This is true.Nearly 2 decades ago, Dr. Jacques Cohen of the Institute for Reproductive Medicine and […]

UK Quietly Opens the Door to Genetic Engineering, ‘Three-Parent’ Embryos

by Hilary White

by Hilary White on Aug 25, 2014 in Featured, Reproductive Technology

Last month the UK’s Department of Health quietly redefined the term “genetic modification” to open the door to allow certain kinds of modification of human embryos – thus potentially making it the first country in the world to allow genetic engineering. Scottish journalist Lori Anderson recently raised the alarm over the change in a column […]

If We Do Nothing, They Will Clone

by Wesley Smith, J.D.

by Wesley Smith, J.D. on May 15, 2014 in Cloning, Embryo Research & Genetics, Featured

Human cloning is here. After years of effort, scientists manufactured human life using the same process that created Dolly the sheep. There is no way around it: The age of human cloning is here—unless we act now to prevent it. Why outlaw human cloning? As the United Nations General Assembly decided in a nearly 3-1 […]

Asexual Human Reproduction

by Judie Brown

by Judie Brown on May 01, 2014 in Cloning, Embryo Research & Genetics, Featured, Reproductive Technology

Today the phrase “from the beginning of his/her biological development” accurately defines when the life of an individual human being begins to exist; the terms “conception” or “fertilization” do not. We have learned this is so because the fact is that not all human beings begin through sexual means; some are reproduced asexually. This concept […]

Get Ready for a Busy 2014 in Bioethics

by Wesley Smith, J.D.

by Wesley Smith, J.D. on Feb 18, 2014 in Catholic Bioethics, Cloning, Embryo Research & Genetics, Euthanasia & Assisted Suicide, Featured, Reproductive Technology, The Homosexual Agenda

My taskmasters at the CBC never allow me to rest on my laurels. Fresh off several years of stellar prognosticating, I am now forced to answer the question: “But what have you predicted, lately?” Okay, let’s take a look. Oh! Oh my. Please remember, the following predictions are what I see happening. They do not […]

Stem Cell Funding Shifts Toward Ethical Research

by Rebecca Taylor

by Rebecca Taylor on Dec 06, 2013 in Cloning, Embryo Research & Genetics, Featured, Science

I have always said that if you want accurate information about stem cell research and its possibilities, you should be reading the business section. Anything else is probably misleading, hyped or even flat out lies. In other words, follow the money. The money will tell you what is truly promising research. The money is painting […]

FDA Mulling Three-Parent Embryo Creation

by Hilary White

by Hilary White on Nov 01, 2013 in Cloning, Embryo Research & Genetics, Featured, Reproductive Technology

While some European ethicists and politicians have called for an end to the creation of “three-parent” IVF embryos, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has announced it is considering allowing the practice – without having held a public consultation. Researchers say that the technique “modifies standard IVF technology” to create an embryo from the eggs of […]

Now is the Time to Stop Three-Parent IVF

by Wesley Smith, J.D.

by Wesley Smith, J.D. on Oct 02, 2013 in Cloning, Embryo Research & Genetics, Featured, Reproductive Technology

The UK rubber stamp Embryo Authority has approved the manufacture of three-parent human embryos. The process is done by removing the nucleus from the egg of one woman, putting it into the enucleated egg of another, and then fertilizing with sperm. Voila, three biological parents. The approach is supposed to enable women with mitochondrial disease—who […]

“Reproductive Rights” and the Brave New United States

by Rebecca Taylor

by Rebecca Taylor on Jun 13, 2012 in Cloning, Embryo Research & Genetics, Featured, Reproductive Technology

When I talk to my fellow Americans about biotechnology, they have this idea that all the bad stuff will happen in places like China and that the horrors of Huxley’s Brave New World will never happen here. Cloning, human genetic engineering and the like will happen somewhere else, but not in the good ol’ USA. […]

Reverberations of Roe v. Wade Go Far Beyond Abortion

by Rebecca Taylor

by Rebecca Taylor on Jan 22, 2012 in Catholic Bioethics, Featured

Thirty-nine years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, in Roe v. Wade, that the laws outlawing abortion in Texas were unconstitutional because a woman had a right to privacy, guaranteed by the Constitution. Suddenly, the unborn had no legal protection in the United States. But Roe v. Wade did not just deny legal protection to […]