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Home: Current Issues: Ethics - Medical: LINKS_PAGE Current Issues: Ethics - Medical: LINKS_PAGEArticles:A “Painless” Death? - Wesley J. SmithMany who support Terri Schiavo's threatened dehydration assert that removing a feeding tube from a profoundly cognitively disabled person results in a painless and gentle ending. But is this really true? After all, it would be agonizing if you or I were locked in a room for two weeks and deprived of all food and water. Read more... AIDS and the Churches: Getting the Story Right - Edward C. Green and Allison Herling RuarkWhat the churches are called to do by their theology turns out to be what works best in AIDS prevention. Read more... Allow afflicted babies a death with dignity - Debbie JoslinIn 1999 my son was given a prenatal diagnosis of "fetal anomalies incompatible with life". I was offered "choices". Read more... An autopsy won't end it - John LeoJust when it seemed that every liberal commentator on the Terri Schiavo case was starting to sound like Barney Frank, the great Joan Didion published a long and remarkable article on the case in the quite far left New York Review of Books of June 9. Read more... Beginning of the End for Embryonic Stem Cell Research? - Michael FumentoThose who support expanded government embryonic stem cell funding because they believe it will bring medical breakthroughs should be heartened at the fact that there's a far more promising approach likelier to produce more benefits and much sooner. Read more... BioSpin — Why Adult Stem Cell Research Successes Get Downplayed by the Media - Wesley J. Smith"Adult-Stem-Cell Breakthrough!" the headlines should have screamed. "Stunning Discovery Could Mean No Need to Use Embryos in Research." Unfortunately, with the notable exception of a front-page story in the Boston Globe, the mainstream media has significantly downplayed this potentially exciting scientific discovery. Read more... Biotech New World - Wesley J. SmithThe theme of Brave New World is not the advancement of science as such," Aldous Huxley wrote in the foreword to a new 1946 edition of his groundbreaking novel, but rather "the advancement of science as it affects human individuals." Read more... Bodies in Plastic - Rev. Tadeusz PacholczykAn exhibit called "Body Worlds" is currently touring the United States and generating some animated discussion in its wake. Read more... Bodies Without Souls - Dennis TetiThe book’s title, Body Bazaar, is a pun on the strangeness of how elements of the human body — DNA, umbilical cord blood, embryos, bone, tissue — have become products for a burgeoning global biotechno-mart. For doctors harvesting human tissue, the body has become (changing the metaphor) a “gold mine.” Read more... Brave New Genetic World - Stacy MattinglyEven human embryonic stem-cell research, the most morally problematic to date of all the new reproductive technologies, has a huge cadre of advocates who look to stem-cell therapy to cure a wide range of degenerative disabilities. That is where the brave new genetic world we have built on IVF technology starts to look scary. Read more... Pages: [<<] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 [>>] Related Categories:Pages Updated On: 07-Nov-2009 - 11:31:43
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