Bioethics

“A new report from the Centers for Disease Control found that the number of abortions conducted in the United States rose slightly from 2017 to 2018, reversing a consistent decline that began in 2009.” - CPost

“While immortalized cell lines began with fetal cells, they no longer contain fetal body parts and no fetal tissue remains. No cells remain from the original fetal tissue, so they are not themselves ‘fetal cell.’” - TGC

“The scientists call these human-monkey hybrids ‘transgenic non-human primates,’…. the researchers limited their study to monkey fetuses, which were taken out by C-section after growing for 100 days.

“Euthanasia will be legalized in New Zealand….It will allow people suffering a terminal illness with less than six months to live to end their life. However, the final results will not be released until next week.” - MCD

“Weighing ethical concerns about the use of fetal-derived tissue to develop medicines against the public health risk of refusing vaccines.” - The Dispatch

“The real question that needs answering is, ‘At what point does a human fetus become a person.’ This may sound like an inconsequential distinction, but it is actually the crux of the matter.” - Mark Farnham

“This is an ethical dilemma that pro-life Christians have wrestled through long before the coronavirus.

“Although still largely unknown by the general public, CRISPR/Cas9 has the potential to be one of the most influential technologies developed in the 21st century.” - TGC

“Doctors administered a CRISPR cancer treatment in November and have used the method against sickle cell disease, HIV, and inherited forms of blindness. But the technology has sparked controversy, too. Experts around the world criticized Chinese scientist He Jiankui in 2018 when he revealed he used it to try to give the first gene-edited babies resistance to the AIDS virus.” - WORLD

“…the prospect of a conservative, pro-life Supreme Court has thrown pro-abortion liberals into a panic. In the hours after Justice Ginsburg’s death, record donations poured into the Democratic party, to the tune of $71 million. Both the pro-abortion and the anti-abortion sides are describing the Supreme Court vacancy as pivotal to their cause.” - Veith