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A New Year's Resolution for You
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A New Year’s Resolution for You

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by on Jan 07, 2015 in Cloning, Embryo Research & Genetics, Euthanasia & Assisted Suicide, Featured, Reproductive Technology, Science
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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 […]

If We Do Nothing, They Will Clone
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If We Do Nothing, They Will Clone

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by on May 15, 2014 in Cloning, Embryo Research & Genetics, Featured
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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 […]

My Predictions in Bioethics Right Again!
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My Predictions in Bioethics Right Again!

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by on Feb 05, 2014 in Catholic Bioethics, Cloning, Embryo Research & Genetics, Contraception & Abortion, Euthanasia & Assisted Suicide, Featured, Reproductive Technology
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Can you believe a year has come and gone since I last told you what would happen, before it happened, in bioethics? Maybe it’s my increasing age, but time is passing too fast! So, how did I do? Not as well as in years past, but still an A-. Let’s take a look: The Affordable […]

More Media Stem Cell Confusion
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More Media Stem Cell Confusion

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by on Jan 23, 2014 in Cloning, Embryo Research & Genetics, Featured
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After my many years of writing about stem cell research, I am still shocked when the media get the facts horribly wrong. I guess that comes from the assumption that to report the news, one must actually understand the subject matter. After last month’s confusion over whether research that produced mini-kidneys in the lab used […]

Mini-Kidney Likely Grown from Embryonic Stem Cells, Not Skin Cells
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Mini-Kidney Likely Grown from Embryonic Stem Cells, Not Skin Cells

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by on Jan 09, 2014 in Cloning, Embryo Research & Genetics, Featured
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Ever since the dawn of embryonic stem cell research, the media has rarely gotten the facts straight. Either the reporter is unaware of the scientific and moral differences between adult and embryonic stem cells or he has an agenda to push. Some news outlets were so bold as to call embryonic stem cells “early” stem […]

Stem Cell Funding Shifts Toward Ethical Research
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Stem Cell Funding Shifts Toward Ethical Research

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by on Dec 06, 2013 in Cloning, Embryo Research & Genetics, Featured, Science
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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 […]

Killing Embryos for Science 'Demeans' the Humanity of Researchers
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Killing Embryos for Science ‘Demeans’ the Humanity of Researchers

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by on May 07, 2013 in Catholic Bioethics, Cloning, Embryo Research & Genetics, Featured
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Researchers who justify the killing of human beings at the embryonic stage “demean” themselves and diminish their own humanity, an American ethicist told LifeSiteNews.com at the Vatican’s stem cell conference last month. By willingly participating in an evil, even to bring about a great good like cures for diseases, “You demean yourself, you make yourself […]

Answering Pro-Life Objections to Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Research
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Answering Pro-Life Objections to Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Research

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by on Oct 13, 2012 in Cloning, Embryo Research & Genetics, Featured
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There has been a lot of talk about Dr. Yamanaka and his work on induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) since he won the Nobel Prize earlier this week.  There have even been some rumblings that pro-lifers should not be so happy about iPSCs since they are not “100% pro-life.” Before I list the objections that […]

What Can We Learn from the Stem Cell Debates
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What Can We Learn from the Stem Cell Debates

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by on Aug 17, 2012 in Cloning, Embryo Research & Genetics, Featured
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A report from The Witherspoon Council, a newly-formed bioethics body, argues that even the noblest aspirations of the scientific enterprise must be guided by ethics and governed under political authority. The stem cell debates of the past decade and a half were among the most heated controversies about science and politics in recent memory, raising […]

Reverberations of Roe v. Wade Go Far Beyond Abortion
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Reverberations of Roe v. Wade Go Far Beyond Abortion

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by on Jan 22, 2012 in Catholic Bioethics, Featured
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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 […]

Is the U.S. Behind the Rest of the World in Advancing Embryonic Stem Cell Research?
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Is the U.S. Behind the Rest of the World in Advancing Embryonic Stem Cell Research?

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by on Dec 23, 2011 in Catholic Bioethics, Featured
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I am beginning to believe that it is true that Americans in general have no idea about how things really are in the rest of the world.  For example, I am sure that many in the “Occupy” crowd have no idea that they are among the richest people in the world.  And the cancellation of […]

Leading Biotech Company Abandons Embryonic Stem Cells
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Leading Biotech Company Abandons Embryonic Stem Cells

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by on Nov 18, 2011 in Featured, Life Issues & Bioethics
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For years, the Geron Corporation has been touting its embryonic stem cell program as the future of regenerative medicine. Just last year, it became the first company to begin human trials on a treatment derived from embryonic stem cells. This Monday, however, citing financial constraints as the primary reason, Geron announced that it has terminated these […]

Pope Benedict: Science Must Never Compromise Human Dignity
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Pope Benedict: Science Must Never Compromise Human Dignity

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by on Nov 15, 2011 in Featured, Life Issues & Bioethics
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On Nov. 12 at the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace, Pope Benedict XVI addressed participants of the Nov. 9-11 international conference Adult Stem Cells: Science and the Future of Man and Culture. The Holy Father opened his remarks with praise for the various institutions exploring and promoting research on adult stem cells. Adult stem cells hold great […]

Vatican Hosts International Conference on Adult Stem Cell Research
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Vatican Hosts International Conference on Adult Stem Cell Research

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by on Nov 11, 2011 in Featured, Life Issues & Bioethics
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Don’t ever let anyone tell you that the Catholic Church is “anti-science” or against stem cell research. Actually, she is very much in favor of stem cell research, so long as tiny human beings are not created, used and destroyed in the process, and now she’s putting her money where her mouth is with regard […]