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Life Without Father

Britain's Labour-led government has unleashed the hounds of biomedical and cultural revolution in recent days, voting to allow expanded research using and destroying human embryos, the development of animal-human hybrid embryos, the development of "s ...

May 21, 2008

Adventures in Misleading Argument

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is in big political trouble. His Labor Party suffered a recent humiliation in local elections and he appears to be losing support from within the party's parliamentary ranks. He also faces a host of controversial i ...

May 19, 2008

The Archbishop and the Embryo

Archbishop Rowan Williams, Primate of the Church of England and leader of the Anglican Communion was once a human embryo. So was I. So were you. So also were those who would now reduce human embryos to the status of a commodity to be used and destroy ...

May 14, 2008

Robert George on Defending the Embryo

Does the human embryo deserve our full respect and protection? In their recent book, Embryo: A Defense of Human Life, Robert George and Christopher Tollefsen argue convincingly that it does. Prof. George joins us on today's program about the argume ...

May 5, 2008

A New Bioethical Frontier: Choosing A Deaf Embryo

A deaf couple in Britain has sparked a firestorm of controversy by stating their intention to choose a deaf embryo during the IVF process. The case raises serious questions about matters of bioethics and human dignity for today's show. ...

March 13, 2008

“A Rather Unexpected Aspect of IVF” — Over a Million Human Embryos Destroyed in Britain

The development of In Vitro Fertilization technologies [IVF] has produced what one key observer has called "a rather unexpected aspect" of the technique -- the destruction of well over a million human embryos in Great Britain alone. As reported in T ...

January 10, 2008

Ask Anything Wednesday

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July 25, 2007

The Chimeras Are Coming

For some time now ethicists have warned that the development of real animal-human combinations -- known as chimeras -- was nearing on the horizon. Now, according to some reports, the future has arrived. As William Saletan reports in The Washington P ...

June 25, 2007

Ask Anything Wednesday

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June 20, 2007

The Disappearing Father

Is the notion of fatherhood becoming obsolete? Researchers at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in Great Britain say they are on the verge of creating sperm cells from bone marrow. This would allow women to conceive children completely without me ...

May 22, 2007

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