All 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.
The perceived dangers of genetic research fall into several categories, ranging from the practical to the apocalyptic. At the practical end are issues relating to medical privacy, the insurability of people with genetically identifiable risks for disease, and the use of genetic information to stigmatize or discriminate against individuals or groups.
Time magazine's millennium issue failed to mention any of the immensely important contributions the Catholic Church has made to Western culture over the past 1000 years.
The individual who is a servant of technique, Jacques Ellul writes, must be completely unconscious of himself.
Bioethicists spend much of their time arguing with one another, beneathor, more accurately, abovethe public radar, in arcane academic journals, books, university symposia, and government-appointed commissions.
If we should not underestimate the significance of human cloning, neither should we exaggerate its imminence or misunderstand just what is involved.
Everyday we read and hear about the constant onslaught of controversial medical issues, e.g., euthanasia, physician-assisted suicide, test-tube babies, cloning and stem cell research, creating monsters in the lab, etc. it is all coming down very fast and we will all have to make decisions about these and many other issues not even imagined yet in the 21st Century.
As a practitioner of a new medical specialty known as clinical ethics, Jonathan Moreno joins the burgeoning cadre of academics who are making the leap from the blackboard to the bedside.
Protection of Conscience Laws (PCLs) ensure that people cannot be forced to participate in medical procedures to which they object for reasons of conscience.
Just how dead is brain-dead? The answer isnt as simple as one might think.
