I was just reading last Sunday’s New York Times Magazine. There, in all its eugenic glory, is an advertisement with the headline, “Donor Egg Immediately Available.” The text tells us that the “fully-screened” egg donors come from women “in advanced degree . . . . Continue Reading »
A Canadian bill to legalize euthanasia/assisted suicide demonstrates vividly where the “right to die” crowd wants to take society. The bill, C-407, does not require that the person who wants to be killed be terminally ill. It doesn’t even require that the suicidal person be . . . . Continue Reading »
Last week, a senate committee held hearings on the terrorist war against Life Sciences Research (Huntingdon), by SHAC and other liberationists, which I have described in this blog and elsewhere. The New York Stock Exchange is the most recent apparent appeaser of SHAC, changing its mind at the last . . . . Continue Reading »
I wrote a column against AB 651, which would legalize Oregon-style assisted suicide, in today’s Orange County Register. There is nothing particularly new in this piece. But repetition is the key to prevailing in today’s public policy debates. And, I think, it is a good, succinct view of . . . . Continue Reading »
Gee, it looks like the taxpayers of California won’t receive much of a return on their borrowed billions, to be given to Big Biotech and university research centers under Proposition 71, after all. This is in direct contradiction to the promises made by supporters of the initiative. Opponents . . . . Continue Reading »
One of the attractions of religion for many people is that it offers the promise of immortality, if not of the body, at least of the soul. Today, many boosters of biotechnology and transhumanism are offering the same thing—but not tending to believe in the soul, they suggest that it can be . . . . Continue Reading »
Another interesting poll result from the Virginia Commonwealth University (see previous post for link), has to do with the public’s perception of science. “Question 3: Scientific research these days doesn’t pay enough attention to the moral values of society.” Fifty-six . . . . Continue Reading »
This poll taken by the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) demonstrates that most people still oppose human cloning for biomedical research (and, of course, as a means of reproduction). While majorities support embryonic stem cell research, which was sold successfully to the public as only . . . . Continue Reading »
Woo-Suk Hwang, the Korean human cloner, is forming the World Stem Cell Foundation that intends to circumvent the bans some nations and U.S. States have on human therapeutic cloning. The idea is to do the cloning in friendly areas and then cell the cloned stem cells in locales where cloning is not . . . . Continue Reading »
I was flying home from a speaking gig in Kentucky yesterday and at Chicago/O’Hare, I purchased a Sunday Chicago Tribune. There, on the front page, was a great story on the power of umbilical cord blood stem cells to treat terrible diseases. Good for the Tribune. As I have written previously, . . . . Continue Reading »
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