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African Girl Brought to UK for Organ Harvesting
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African Girl Brought to UK for Organ Harvesting

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by on Oct 29, 2013 in Cloning, Embryo Research & Genetics, Featured, The Social Order, Those in Need
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This is so horrific and evil that it almost defies reason. Officials have rescued a girl from Somalia that was brought to the UK to harvest her organs. They are sure that this is not an isolated incidence. The Telegraph has the story: The unnamed girl was brought to the UK from Somalia with the […]

At What Price Life?
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At What Price Life?

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by on Mar 13, 2012 in Featured, Reproductive Technology, The Economy
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It is no secret that in life, our values tend to guide our decisions.  The things we hold dear, the things that are priorities to us, our principles… these are the factors that influence how we live our lives, from who we associate with to how we spend our time and how we spend our […]

Facing the Essential Question in the Abortion Debate
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Facing the Essential Question in the Abortion Debate

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by on Nov 04, 2011 in Featured, Life Issues & Bioethics
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For decades now, the “pro-choice” movement has successfully distorted the abortion debate by ignoring the essential question – is an unborn child a living human or isn’t it? – in favor of their infamous “right to choose” canard.  A recent op-ed in the Washington Post entitled “How an anti-abortion push to redefine ‘person’ could hurt […]

The Court of Justice of the EU: No Patent on Embryo Destroying Procedures
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The Court of Justice of the EU: No Patent on Embryo Destroying Procedures

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by on Oct 19, 2011 in Featured, Life Issues & Bioethics
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In an important and closely-monitored judgment, the Court of Luxembourg has decided, in the case C-34/10 “Oliver Brüstle v Greenpeace e.V.”, that an invention is excluded from being patented where the process requires either the prior destruction of human embryos or their use as a base material. This is applicable even if, in the patent […]

Intellectual Sabotage
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Intellectual Sabotage

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by on Jul 09, 2011 in Featured, Life Issues & Bioethics, On Media
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Sometimes a writer will say things that are so outlandish that even my grandmother, God rest her soul, would have been angry. Now, mind you, Bertha Tekla Baldi was never one to raise her voice, but the meandering gobbledygook of Mr. David Hampton, editorial director of the Mississippi’s Clarion Ledger, might have even gotten a […]

Appeals Court Lifts Research Ban on Embryonic Stem Cells
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Appeals Court Lifts Research Ban on Embryonic Stem Cells

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by on Apr 29, 2011 in Featured, Life Issues & Bioethics
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The U.S. Appeals Courts for Washington D.C. has given the green light for the destruction of human embryonic stem cells for research purposes.  The action overturns an injunction placed by a federal judge, last August, who ruled such destruction violated Congressional spending laws, in place since the 1990’s. It was a 2-1 decision and a […]

Exploitation: Legal Protections for Human Embryos Eroding in France
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Exploitation: Legal Protections for Human Embryos Eroding in France

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by on Apr 05, 2011 in Catholic Bioethics, Featured
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The cold weather in recent months seems to have brought a flurry of news stories about embryos.  In October the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to the inventor of in vitro fertilization.  In November the journal Human Reproduction published a study in which researchers at the University of Barcelona implanted silicon […]

But Is the Human Embryo a Person?
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But Is the Human Embryo a Person?

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by on Feb 11, 2011 in Cloning, Embryo Research & Genetics, Contraception & Abortion
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Some commentators have argued that human embryos are individual human beings but they add that they are not human persons because they cannot sense or think or feel or desire.  Consequently, it is argued that human embryos do not have moral status and thus cannot claim any rights including the right to life.  Only human […]