In a stunning development, the Alabama Supreme Court just declared that IVF embryos are legally defined as children under the state’s law and constitu...
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"In this case, the woman won the jackpot," said Heather Kowalski, spokesperson for the American Society for Reproductive Medicine. She was referring to Bobbi McCaughey of Carlisle, Iowa, who is currently awaiting the birth of septuplets. Under ...
"I was convinced that there was still plenty of time."(1) With those words the author Aldous Huxley looked back to 1931, and the publication of his famous novel Brave New World. Huxley's vision of an oppressive culture of total authoritarian ...
"We are the first species to have taken evolution into our own hands," claimed the late Carl Sagan. His words sounded chillingly prophetic last week when the British government proposed the legalization of "limited" human cloning. Defenders of ...
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The National Institutes of Health [NIH] released the draft of its "Guidelines for Human Stem Cell Research" on April 17, thus revealing the specific policy proposals that will expand federal funding for stem cell research using human embryos. The pr ...
"Buckle up. We're on our way." So wrote William Saletan, one of the most influential reporters covering today's medical and moral controversies. Saletan writes for Slate.com, and his words made reference to the fact that our world just got a littl ...
WDRB TV, Fox 41, did a story on the stem cell issue in light of President Barack Obama's new policy. I was interviewed for this report. The video is available here. The package by WDRB put a focus on John Swarts, a patient with Parkinson's Disease ...
In a widely-publicized event in the East Room at the White House today, President Barack Obama signed an executive order overturning previous restrictions on the use of federal funding for research on embryonic stem cells. On today's program, guest h ...