Breakthroughs continue to be made in the IPSC arena. One of the primary purposes for therapeutic cloning was supposed to be the ability to create pluripotent embryonic stem cell lines for study from patients with specific diseases. No cloned embryonic stem cells yet at all, but the IPSC lines are . . . . Continue Reading »
Thanks, Amanda, for posting those links to the pieces in First Things on 9/11. I remember reading them at the time, and revisiting them again was instructive. Today I came across a homily that was preached seven years ago and subsequently published in the Wall Street Journal . I hadn’t seen . . . . Continue Reading »
Rev. Hot Pants is only one sign that the Anglican communion is in a bit of trouble. Even casual readers will know that Anglicans have spent the past several years trying to avert an all-too-possible schism between the moral and theological “liberals” and the “conservatives.” . . . . Continue Reading »
Via Mark Shea , here’s John Cleese explaining genetic determinism. I was never that good at biology in college, but this seems to make sense to me. . . . . Continue Reading »
Worth reading, today, are these two pieces from the archives. “Strange beyond understanding,” is how Fr. Neuhaus initially described September 11. Seven years later, that is no less true: September 11. This is written the day after, just under the deadline for this issue. For years to . . . . Continue Reading »
The Alliance Defense Fund, which helped save Jesse Ramirez’s life, has won another one, at least for now. From its press release: On May 16, the patient’s husband filed the suit P.C. v. K. against the hospital and a doctor in order to keep the medical staff from removing his wife’s . . . . Continue Reading »
Frightening setbacks in the battle against reducing abortions: Canadian doctor warns Sarah Palin’s decision to have Down baby could reduce abortions . . . . Continue Reading »
Last week I said that politics was a practical affair, for which people with ordinary practical experience were usually better qualified than theoreticians. The upshot was that Sarah Palin’s past as a mother and PTA member was nothing to sniff at. This Mail Online article on the PTA suggests . . . . Continue Reading »
This is an awful story, but I think it is relevant to the underlying cultural struggle about people with disabilities reflected in the brouhaha set off by the Palins’ embrace of their son, Trig. In the UK, a mother is charged with murdering her 4-year-old daughter because she was . . . . Continue Reading »
This story was brought to my attention by “greg” in the comments to a previous post, which I appreciate, and I comment about here because it is worth more prominent notice: A Globe and Mail (Canada’s national newspaper) story reports that Andre Lalonde, executive vice-president of . . . . Continue Reading »
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