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Home: Current Issues: Ethics - Medical: LINKS_PAGE Current Issues: Ethics - Medical: LINKS_PAGEArticles:Can Frozen Embryos Be Saved? - Grace MacKinnonIf we believe – and rightly so – that it is wrong to use human embryos for experimental research, then what is it that we believe should be done with these often-unwanted frozen children? What happens to them? Read more... Clone the French! - Wesley J. SmithBig News! The French parliament just passed the Brownback-Landrieu Bill outlawing all human cloning. Read more... Cloning at the Crossroads of Humankind - Nigel M. de S. CameronThe world changed when it was announced in February of 1997 that scientists working for a private research institute in my former homeland of Scotland had cloned a sheep. The world was taken by total surprise. Technology first, typically by surprise; ethics and policy later, if at all. Four years later, here in the U.S. we still have no policy. There are few more worrying facts in the modern world. Let me offer three comments. Read more... Couples Ask: What’s Wrong With In-vitro Fertilization? - Tim DrakeCatholic teaching has called in-vitro fertilization techniques immoral for decades. But most Catholics still haven’t heard the news. Read more... Danger Zone - Wesley J. SmithIn the court (and courts) of life and death, a little 11-year-old Massachusetts girl named Haleigh Poutre could be the next Terri Schiavo. Read more... Debating the Embryo's Fate - Rev. Tadeusz PacholczykThe debate over embryonic stem cell research continues to escalate in our country, and remains a topic of significant public interest. Read more... Dissolution of bioethics council is a loss for America - Colleen Carroll CampbellLast month, President Barack Obama quietly disbanded the President's Council on Bioethics, a deliberative body whose changing cast of erudite and ideologically diverse members had spent the past eight years thinking through today's toughest moral questions. Read more... 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. Read more... 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. Read more... 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. 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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