Bioethics

“We didn’t really start thinking of brain death as death until doctors at Harvard discovered that if we were to define it that way we’d be able to harvest organs for transplantation.” CT



Embryonic Stem Cell Breakthrough To Revive Cloning Debate



“Pro-life advocates at the United Nations have succeeded in halting U.S. efforts to list abortion as an international right”



… set aside as a day of mourning throughout the country by many organizations



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Experts seem eager to attribute the decline to economic conditions.



“Question 2 was defeated 51-49 percent”



Please Step Back From the Assisted-Suicide Ledge



“Because they block creation of fertilized eggs, they would not meet abortion opponents’ definition of abortion-inducing drugs. “

Maybe sometimes boycotts do work? Sweet news follows boycott of PepsiCoBut Pepsico says there never was any use of these kinds of cells.

“A fetus’s gender should not be revealed until after 30 weeks of pregnancy, says an editorial in the Canadian Medical Journal.”(HT: Don Johnson)