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Home: Current Issues: Ethics - Medical: LINKS_PAGE Current Issues: Ethics - Medical: LINKS_PAGEArticles:New Babies Have Three Parents - David CurtinA team of infertility specialists at the Institute for Reproductive Medicine and Science at St. Barnabas Medical Center said they helped produce 15 children with foreign DNA added to that which the children naturally inherited from their mothers and fathers. The news was met with an outcry from ethicists and from other scientists, who accused the team of playing God and of ignoring potentially disastrous side effects in their haste to dabble in genetic engineering. Email This Article Not Making the Cut - Donald DeMarcoAll human beings should "make the cut" simply because they are inviolate, unrepeatable, and irreplaceable human beings. The path to abortion and the road toward cloning is one that consistently and increasingly subordinates the primary good of the human being to some secondary good. Email This Article Not quite dead?: The case for caution in the definition of "brain death" - Monica SeeleyThe Church is very clear on the meaning of death. "Death can mean decomposition, disintegration, a separation," Pope John Paul II said in a 1989 address to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. "It occurs when the spiritual principle which ensures the unity of the organism no longer exercises its functions in and upon the organism, whose elements, left to themselves, disintegrate." Email This Article Of Living Wills and Butterfly Ballots - Nancy ValkoThe “living will” was originally invented in 1967 by two groups, the Euthanasia Society of America and Euthanasia Education Council, and was touted as a first step in gaining public acceptance of euthanasia. These groups had been struggling for years to get “mercy-killing” bills (which would allow doctors to give disabled or dying patients lethal overdoses) passed in various state legislatures. Email This Article 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. Email This Article 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? Email This Article 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." Email This Article 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. Email This Article 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? Email This Article 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. Email This Article Pages: [<<] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 [>>] Related Categories:Pages Updated On: 14-Jul-2008 - 12:48:44
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