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Home: Current Issues: Ethics - Medical: LINKS_PAGE Current Issues: Ethics - Medical: LINKS_PAGEArticles:The Case Against Perfection - Michael J. SandelWhat's wrong with designer children, bionic athletes, and genetic engineering? Read more... The Case of Terri Schiavo: When Does Dignity End? - Reverend Michael BlackWhile hard cases don’t make good law, Terri Schiavo’s circumstance crystallizes all the major issues surrounding care for the terminally ill, and provides an opportunity to preach and educate our people about human rights, the inherent dignity of all human life, and the limits of medical treatment. Read more... The Case of Terri Shiavo - Fr. William SaundersA friend of mine and I had an argument over Terri Schiavo as to whether food and water should be stopped to allow her to die. I said that to do so would really be like killing her. She said that she is going to die anyway. Is there any Church teaching on this matter? Read more... The difference between knowledge and wisdom - George WeigelThis past April 25th marked the fiftieth anniversary of the most important scientific article of the twentieth century: James Watson and Francis Crick’s description in Nature of the "double-helix" structure of DNA. Read more... The Ethics of Correcting Mitochondrial Disease - Father Tadeusz PacholczykMitochondria are small, elongated structures in a cell that produce energy. Read more... The Evolution of Genocide - Rebecca MessallWhile reading the newspaper in May 1999, I noticed a headline about an evolution controversy occupying the Kansas State Board of Education. I flipped the page without reading the story. Like many pro-life people, I felt that the origin of the species was a matter of God's choice of methods - but not a pro-life concern. Read more... The Freedom of Conscience in Relation to "Health" - Iain T. BensonA student at the medical school at the University of Manitoba has been threatened with loss of graduation if he will not offer abortion as an option to a patient. In terms of the legal requirement, the issue is whether or not a physician is required to refer a patient for an abortion. The answer is “no.” Read more... The freedom of conscience rights - Archbishop J. Michael Miller, CSBThis article is excerpted from a homily given by the Archbishop of Vancouver, B. C. during the White Mass for health-care providers in January 2011. Read more... The Future Is Now - Father Thomas Berg, L.C.The stem-cell debate changes. Read more... The Holy Grail of Reprogramming: A New Era for Stem Cells? - Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, Ph.D.The recent discovery that regular old garden-variety skin cells can be converted into highly flexible (pluripotent) stem cells has rocked the scientific world. Read more... Pages: [<<] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 [>>] Related Categories:Pages Updated On: 08-Mar-2011 - 18:33:33
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