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Barbarism in the Laboratory: The British Consider Cloning

"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 ...

July 14, 2009

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June 17, 2009

Out of Sight, Out of Mind, Out of Luck — The Abandoned Embryo

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 ...

April 20, 2009

"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 ...

March 16, 2009

WDRB Interview on Stem Cell Research

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 ...

March 16, 2009

Undermining the Dignity of Human Life with the Stroke of a Pen

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 ...

March 9, 2009

The Floodgate is Now Open — President Obama and the Vulnerable Embryo

President Barack Obama today signed an executive order that reverses the Bush administration's restrictions on federal funding for research that involves the destruction of human embryos.  In a White House ceremony, President Obama said that American ...

March 9, 2009

The Age of the Designer Baby Arrives

The logic of the genetics revolution leads inevitably to the concept of the designer baby.  New technologies bring new possibilities and hard choices, and the new genetic technologies bring genuinely frightening new possibilities.  Now, even designer ...

February 17, 2009

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