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Home: Current Issues: Ethics - Medical: LINKS_PAGE Current Issues: Ethics - Medical: LINKS_PAGEArticles:Outlawing Conscience: Why We Need a Conscience Clause - Chuck ColsonHeather Williams spent five years working as a pharmacist at a Target store in St. Louis. During that time, Target accommodated Williams’s desire not to take part in dispensing the morning-after pill — the drug that causes the abortion of an embryonic human being. But then Planned Parenthood threatened to boycott the Target chain over Williams’s employment — so Target fired her. Read more... Overselling the Synthetic Cell - Father Tadeusz PacholczykIn a May, 2010 article entitled "How We Created the First Synthetic Cell," Dr. J. Craig Venter waxes broadly about how his research team succeeded in constructing a bacterial cell out of its component parts. Read more... People in vegetative states are entitled to compassion and care - Father Raymond J. de SouzaCan a human person ever become a vegetable? And be treated as such? Read more... Peter Singer: Architect of the Culture of Death - Donald DeMarcoThe new tradition that Peter Singer welcomes is founded on a "quality-of-life" ethic. It allegedly replaces the outgoing morality that is based on the "sanctity-of-life." Read more... Plastic Perfection? The Ethics of Breast Implants - Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk, Ph.D.In the last 10 years, the number of women undergoing breast augmentations has increased dramatically. Read more... Play It Again Organ Donation - Lay WitnessWhat is the position of the Catholic Church on organ donation for the purpose of transplant? What moral principles are involved? What would motivate one to be an organ donor? Read more... Politically Correct Eugenics - Wesley J. SmithIt is a bitter irony that even as we are enlarging our commitment to human equality in many areas, we are turning our backs on it in others. Read more... Powerless, or the Hidden Power in our Suffering? - Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk, Ph.D.In a 1999 study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, patients with serious illness were asked to identify what was most important to them during the dying process. Read more... Pre-Natal Diagnosis - Fr. Frank PavoneThe push for pre-natal diagnostic tests for pregnant mothers just became stronger. Read more... Pregnant Women - ZENITResearchers clamor for federal funding to ‘harvest’ stem cells from unborn children. Read more... Press Misrepresents Catholic Teaching on End of Life Issues - Culture & CosmosThe prominence of the Terri Schiavo case has brought unprecedented media attention to the Catholic Church's teaching on end-of-life issues. But media portrayals of Church teaching are often inaccurate and misleading, according to two prominent Catholic ethicists. Read more... Press Release on Stem Cell Research - Catholic Medical AssociationProcuring Organs “Over My Dead Body?” - Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk, Ph.D.While it may cost an arm and a leg to live in the state of New York these days, it may soon cost a liver or kidney to die there. Read more... Protection of Conscience Project Submission to the All-Party Oireachtais Co - Protection of Conscience ProjectProtection of Conscience Laws (PCL’s) ensure that people cannot be forced to participate in medical procedures to which they object for reasons of conscience. Read more... Reducing Risk, Increasing AIDS - Matthew HanleyThe predominant Western approach to preventing the spread of AIDS in Africa has failed. Read more... Remembering the Pill - R.J. SnellThe fiftieth anniversary of oral contraceptives is a reminder of all the things the Pill lets us forget. Read more... Reproductive Technology - John M. HaasInfertility is a growing problem in the United States. And in true American fashion, there has been a corresponding growth in a "reproductive technologies industry" to provide a solution. In America we have a tendency to think that we can solve all problems with the right "technology." But children are not engendered by technology or produced by an industry. Read more... Reproductive Technology - John M. HaasInfertility is a growing problem in the United States. And in true American fashion, there has been a corresponding growth in a “reproductive technologies industry” to provide a solution. Read more... Safe Injection Sites and Tackling IV Drug Abuse - Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk, Ph.D.So-called "safe injection sites" are special buildings where drug addicts can go to shoot up illegal drugs without fear of arrest or prosecution. Read more... Scientific Breakthroughs - Robert P. GeorgeNational Review Online Editor Kathryn Lopez recently asked Robert P. George, a member of the President's Council on Bioethics, to talk a little about the future of stem-cell research and some of the heated rhetoric surrounding the issue. Read more... Seeking an Ethical Option to Embryonic Stem Cell Research - Rev. Thomas Berg, L.C.There might be an ethically acceptable alternative for obtaining embryonic stem cells, says a bioethicist. Read more... Sex and Little Pills: Viagra and Birth Control - Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, Ph.D.A prominent politician was recently pressed by reporters to comment on the "unfair situation" of health insurers reimbursing for Viagra but not for birth control. Read more... Should I Have a Living Will? - Rev. Tadeusz PacholczykMany people believe they can exercise better control over their own destiny by filling out a living will (also called an "advance directive.") Read more... Sometimes, life is just really sad - Barbara KayThe movement to medicate grief is an insult to the human condition. Read more... Soulless Clones and Spineless Men - Fr. Tad PacholczykPeople are intrigued and repulsed by the idea of cloning humans. Read more... Pages: [<<] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 [>>] Related Categories:Pages Updated On: Sat Apr 27 2013 - 00:34:49
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