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Home: Current Issues: Ethics - Medical: LINKS_PAGE Current Issues: Ethics - Medical: LINKS_PAGEArticles:The U.N. on Cloning: Ban It - Wesley J. SmithThe United Nations Declaration on Human Cloning is a breakthrough document with enormous potential to lead to tremendous human good. Read more... The Unchosen Frozen - William L. SaundersThe moral problems raised by human embryonic stem-cell research (or embryo destruction) and the disposition of "excess" frozen embryos are so closely related to in vitro fertilization that Americans need to rethink the assumptions supporting the procedure. Read more... The Views of the Holy See on Human Cloning - The Holy SeeThe Wisdom of Repugnance - Leon R. KassIf we should not underestimate the significance of human cloning, neither should we exaggerate its imminence or misunderstand just what is involved. Read more... The Wrong Tree - Wesley J. SmithAdult — not embryonic — stems cells may be our future. Read more... 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. Read more... Thinking About Moral Absolutes - Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk, Ph.D.When Pope Benedict XVI visited the United States in April of 2008, I had the chance to attend the opening ceremony at the White House South Lawn. Read more... 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. Read more... 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. Read more... 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. Read more... Pages: [<<] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 [>>] Related Categories:Pages Updated On: 07-Nov-2009 - 11:31:44
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