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Home: Current Issues: Ethics - Medical: LINKS_PAGE Current Issues: Ethics - Medical: LINKS_PAGEArticles:The Obama Stem Cell Darkness - Father Tadeusz PacholczykPresident Obama, on March 9, 2009, signed an important executive order that vastly expanded federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research and crossed a significant and troubling ethical line. Read more... The Pain of the Almost Dead - SUSAN MARTINUKJust how dead is “brain-dead”? The answer isn’t as simple as one might think. Read more... The perils of dishonest science - Margaret SomervilleWe all—physicians and patients—must face up to our unavoidable ignorance on medical issues, and still try to make wise decisions. Read more... The Permanent Limitations of Biology - Leon R. Kass, M.D.How far can biology take us? Are there limits on what it can know or on what it may enable us to do? Read more... The Pill Turns 50: Medicine That Makes You Sick - Robert F. Conkling, M.D.Recently three major health stories appeared in the Washington press in less than two weeks that were an occasion to pause and reflect. Read more... The Point of a Ban - Gilbert MeilaenderTo explore the logic and make sense of a ban on stem cell research is my aim here. Since many parties to the debate claim, at least, to agree that the embryo should be treated with “respect,” it may be fruitful to explore other issues — in particular, the nature of moral reasoning and the background beliefs that underlie such reasoning. I propose to take a very long way round. Our understanding of what is at stake can be sharpened if we begin not with stem cell research but with a quite different moral question. Read more... The truth about embryonic stem cell (ESC) therapies - Ryan T. AndersonThe truth about the technical challenges and scientific hurdles for embryonic stem-cell (ESC) therapies is finally getting out. Read more... The Truth About Stem Cells: An interview with Dr. David Prentice - Kathryn Jean LopezDavid Prentice, professor of life sciences at Indiana State University and an adjunct professor of medical & molecular genetics at the Indiana University School of Medicine, explains why human embryonic stem-cell research is illegal, immoral, and unnecessary. Read more... The U.N. on Cloning: Ban It - Wesley J. SmithThe United Nations Declaration on Human Cloning is a breakthrough document with enormous potential to lead to tremendous human good. Read more... The Unchosen Frozen - William L. SaundersThe moral problems raised by human embryonic stem-cell research (or embryo destruction) and the disposition of "excess" frozen embryos are so closely related to in vitro fertilization that Americans need to rethink the assumptions supporting the procedure. Read more... The Views of the Holy See on Human Cloning - The Holy SeeThe Wisdom of Repugnance - Leon R. KassIf we should not underestimate the significance of human cloning, neither should we exaggerate its imminence or misunderstand just what is involved. Read more... The Wrong Tree - Wesley J. SmithAdult — not embryonic — stems cells may be our future. Read more... Theology or embryology? - Rev. Tadeusz PacholczykEmbryonic stem cell researchers typically marshal several arguments to encourage public approval and funding for their research, which requires the direct destruction of five to seven day old human embryos. Read more... Thinking About Moral Absolutes - Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk, Ph.D.When Pope Benedict XVI visited the United States in April of 2008, I had the chance to attend the opening ceremony at the White House South Lawn. Read more... This is your brain on capitalism - Robert FulfordDrugs that reshape our character could become the defining industrial products of the century. Read more... Three humans and an embryo - George NeumayrOur culture says it loves children, but take a look at what it does. Read more... To clone or not to clone - Michael CookWhether or not embryos should be cloned and then destroyed for their stem cells has been one of the hottest issues in science this year. James Sherley, a professor at MIT, says that the use of cells from cloned embryos is scientifically and ethically dubious. Read more... To Stop a Flood - National Catholic Register - editorialFaced with what most observers thought was a decision for or against funding research that destroys human embryos, President Bush chose a third option: To fund research on human embryos that have already been destroyed, but whose cell lines are being kept available in labs.That means that federal funds won’t go to the destruction of human embryos. That’s no small thing in today’s climate. At the same time, it would have been better to withhold money for any destructive research, whether the victims are dead or alive. Read more... To the Congress on Life-Sustaining Treatments and Vegetative State - Pope John Paul II"A man, even if seriously ill or disabled in the exercise of his highest functions, is and always will be a man, and he will never become a 'vegetable' or an 'animal'", the Holy Father said on Saturday, 20 March, to participants in the International Congress on Life-Sustaining Treatments and Vegetative State: Scientific Advances and Ethical Dilemmas. Read more... Together in Darkness - Sheila Cassidy“Oh Death, where is thy Victory?” sings the choir, and I look up wearily from my notes and mutter, third bed on the left, behind the curtains, oh, and down in resusc. Read more... Verbal Engineering and the Swaying of Public Conscience - Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk, Ph.D.Whenever longstanding laws are reversed, and practices come to be sanctioned that were formerly forbidden, it behooves us to examine whether such momentous legal shifts are morally coherent or not. Read more... We must protect humans' special status - Margaret SomervilleIf certain animals become persons, as some philosophers argue, human persons become animals, which has consequences for how we treat each other. Read more... Welcome to Our Brave New World: An Interview with Wesley J. Smith - John ZmirakWill the cost of biotechnology's alleviation of human suffering be our acceptance of a ‘Brave New World,’ where scientists wield godlike power to refashion our biological nature? If so, we will not get there in one giant leap. Rather, we will descend into the darkness in small steps, all but unaware that the shadows are lengthening. Read more... What Should We Do with the Frozen Embryos? - Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk, Ph.D.When I give talks on stem cell research or in vitro fertilization, people invariably ask, "What should be done with all the frozen embryos?" Read more... Pages: [<<] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 [>>] Related Categories:Pages Updated On: Tue Feb 07 2012 - 18:46:44
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