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Home: Current Issues: Ethics - Medical: LINKS_PAGE Current Issues: Ethics - Medical: LINKS_PAGEArticles:Do Embryos Have Souls? - Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk, Ph.D.People are sometimes surprised to hear that the wrongness of destroying a human embryo does not ultimately depend on when that embryo might become a person, or when he or she might receive a soul from God. Email This Article Down the slope we slide - David WarrenSo it will soon be legal in Britain to hybridize humans with other species, and grow humans from embryo for "scientific research" -- however medically unnecessary. Email This Article Embryology: Inconvenient Facts - William L. Saunders, Jr.In the ongoing debate about cloning human embryos for research, and about destroying them in order to harvest their stem cells, it is important to keep some basic facts in mind. Our moral analysis must be built upon fundamental scientific truths. If we obscure the facts, then we will not think clearly or act responsibly about these issues. Email This Article Establishment Bioethics - Sean MurphyThe term 'bioethics' is frequently used as if it denotes a single ethical system. In fact, bioethics is simply a branch of ethics, and the term is frequently used as an imprecise label for a range of ethical theories in medicine and medical research. Email This Article Ethical Blind Spots - Rev. Tadeusz PacholczykWhen I traveled to Auschwitz a few years ago, one question played over and over in my mind: Did they know? Email This Article Far from Perfect - Ryan T. AndersonA review of Michael Sandel's The Case against Perfection. Email This Article Follow the Money: Stem Cells and Subsidies - Jennifer Roback MorseLast week the scientific world was abuzz with the news that adult stem cells could be used to regenerate tissues and cure diseases. Email This Article Formula for Producing Super-Babies - Donald DeMarco"Super-" is our most hallowed prefix, for it announces the marriage of two qualities that the modern world venerates: new and improved. If we can produce superconductors, fly at supersonic speeds, travel along superhighways, and attend Super-bowl games, why should we not direct our resourcefulness to our offspring and turn them into super-babies? Email This Article Half Human, Half Animal? - Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk, Ph.D.British scientists have recently received a green light from their regulatory agency to create "hybrid embryos." Email This Article Harsh Medicine: Chapter one from "Culture of Death" - Wesley J. SmithMy mother's doctor is refusing to give her antibiotics," the caller told me in an urgent voice. I asked why. "He says that she's ninety-two and an infection will kill her sooner or later, so it might as well be this infection. As disturbing as this call was, as outrageous the doctor's behavior, I wasn't particularly surprised. I have been receiving such desperate calls with increasing frequency for the last several years. Email This Article Pages: [<<] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 [>>] Related Categories:Pages Updated On: 29-Jul-2008 - 17:59:50
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