The Center for Bioethics and Culture is distributing the documentary Lines That Divide: The Great Embryonic Stem Cell Debate, about embryonic stem cell research. From the film’s summary:First, the viewer is introduced to the basic science of stem cells and how they are gathered for . . . . Continue Reading »
In Lodi, California, June Hartley helped her brother kill himself with helium and a bag. She was charged with the felony of assisting suicide but is apparently going to get another in a series of slaps on the wrists of suicide assisters in such cases. From the story:A Lodi woman who helped her . . . . Continue Reading »
Environmentalism is changing. It once was a distinctly humanistic movement, pushing conservation as a way of ensuring prosperity to our posterity, cleanup of pollution, protecting of habitats and endangered species, etc.—all certainly human duties arising from human exceptionalism. . . . . Continue Reading »
A brief break from the euthanasia conference: I have just learned that the Governor of Oklahoma has signed the bill outlawing all human cloning in that state. Splendid. Not everyone is in thrall to Big Biotech and the purveyors of brave new . . . . Continue Reading »
By Jennifer LahlLouisiana just passed through their Senate committee, HR 370, which if passed, would ban the use of public funds for human cloning research. Hooray! Great model legislation moves forward without opposition and is headed to the Senate floor for a vote. Since its not being resisted, I . . . . Continue Reading »
A peer reviewed study claims to have created the first human cloned embryos, actually, the first cloned embryo. No stem cells derived. I warned readers that the iPSC breakthrough would redouble efforts among some scientists to successfully clone human embryos, and predicted that the derivation of . . . . Continue Reading »
In today’s NRO, Richard Doerflinger, who acts as the hub of the wheel for forces opposing human cloning, weighed in about Iowa’s pro cloning vote (and the AP’s bad reporting about it), demonstrating in his usual rapier fashion how it was based on misleading hype and the cruel . . . . Continue Reading »
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