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Home: Current Issues: Ethics - Medical: LINKS_PAGE Current Issues: Ethics - Medical: LINKS_PAGEArticles:Theology or embryology? - Rev. Tadeusz PacholczykEmbryonic stem cell researchers typically marshal several arguments to encourage public approval and funding for their research, which requires the direct destruction of five to seven day old human embryos. Email This Article To clone or not to clone - Michael CookWhether or not embryos should be cloned and then destroyed for their stem cells has been one of the hottest issues in science this year. James Sherley, a professor at MIT, says that the use of cells from cloned embryos is scientifically and ethically dubious. Email This Article To Stop a Flood - National Catholic Register - editorialFaced with what most observers thought was a decision for or against funding research that destroys human embryos, President Bush chose a third option: To fund research on human embryos that have already been destroyed, but whose cell lines are being kept available in labs.That means that federal funds won’t go to the destruction of human embryos. That’s no small thing in today’s climate. At the same time, it would have been better to withhold money for any destructive research, whether the victims are dead or alive. Email This Article To the Congress on Life-Sustaining Treatments and Vegetative State - Pope John Paul II"A man, even if seriously ill or disabled in the exercise of his highest functions, is and always will be a man, and he will never become a 'vegetable' or an 'animal'", the Holy Father said on Saturday, 20 March, to participants in the International Congress on Life-Sustaining Treatments and Vegetative State: Scientific Advances and Ethical Dilemmas. Email This Article Together in Darkness - Sheila Cassidy“Oh Death, where is thy Victory?” sings the choir, and I look up wearily from my notes and mutter, third bed on the left, behind the curtains, oh, and down in resusc. Email This Article Welcome to Our Brave New World: An Interview with Wesley J. Smith - John ZmirakWill the cost of biotechnology's alleviation of human suffering be our acceptance of a ‘Brave New World,’ where scientists wield godlike power to refashion our biological nature? If so, we will not get there in one giant leap. Rather, we will descend into the darkness in small steps, all but unaware that the shadows are lengthening. Email This Article What We Know About Embryonic Stem Cells - Maureen L. CondicBack at the beginning of 2002, there was considerable optimism regarding the promise that embryonic stem cells were said to hold for millions of people suffering from fatal or debilitating medical conditions. Stem cells derived from human embryos, it was claimed, provided the best hope for relief of human suffering. Email This Article What's Lost in Prenatal Testing - Patricia E. BauerShe was a fresh-faced young woman with a couple of adorable kids, whiling away an hour in the sandbox at the park near my home. So was I, or so I thought. Email This Article When Ideology Corrupts Science and Medicine - Rev. Tadeusz PacholczykSome physicians and researchers fail to see the important role of ethics and religion in the world of medical science. Email This Article When We Were Philosopher Kings - Ruth ShalitAs a practitioner of a new medical specialty known as “clinical ethics,” Jonathan Moreno joins the burgeoning cadre of academics who are making the leap from the blackboard to the bedside. Email This Article Pages: [<<] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 [>>] Related Categories:Pages Updated On: 14-Jul-2008 - 12:48:45
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