The remarkable events of the weekend has heartened me tremendously. Not just because a law was passed that might save Terri Schiavo’s life. (Actually, I am not very optimistic about that. This case has become part of a larger power struggle between the judiciary and political branches of . . . . Continue Reading »
Further proof of my assertion that cloning is about far more than embryonic stem cells and will not long remain in the Petri dish comes now from the United Kingdom, in which a Parliamentary bioethics panel has suggested that reproductive cloning be permitted, such license to include the creation of . . . . Continue Reading »
There is a campaign underway to make infanticide seem normal and a legitimate medical procedure. The latest example is this puff piece in the New York Times (registration may be required), non-judgmentally “profiling” a doctor who kills disabled babies in the Netherlands. This follows . . . . Continue Reading »
Fox News published this article under a misleading headline, e.g., that the Schiavo case is about “faith versus science.” The article itself is fine, as far as it goes, but the headline writer got it all wrong. Schiavo is about the fundamental right to life of a profoundly disabled . . . . Continue Reading »
The pulling of the feeding tube of Terri Schiavo is a travesty and a case of the law’s addiction to process over humane justice. But this killing—if it is finished, remember she has twice been here before—is not being done behind closed doors. It is happening in the glare of the . . . . Continue Reading »
Too much going on, too fast, to post on Schiavo at this point. Anything I wrote would quickly be obsolete. But I am hopeful that a counter revolution has begun. For years, I have believed that the only way to win these bioethical debates was to yank them out of the ivory tower and place them where . . . . Continue Reading »
Pro cloners are now saying that the UN Vote in the General Assembly is not binding, and hence, is not important. But as Austin Ruse told me, almost ALL UN actions are declarations or non-binding resolutions, including the Beijing Platform for Action, the Cairo Program for Action, Rio Agenda 21, etc. . . . . Continue Reading »
I have never seen so much energy expended by so many people to make one poor, helpless woman dead. Yet, despite it all, Terri lives! The key question is why? At a time when people who are far less cognitively disabled then Terri are dehydrated to death in all fifty states with nary a peep of . . . . Continue Reading »
The vote in the United Nations General Assembly is a strong statement on behalf of maintaining morality in biotechnological research and medical applications. This is my analysis, which was published in the Daily . . . . Continue Reading »
Awhile back, in National Review Online I wrote about a Washington State Senate Bill that would permit human cloning and the farming of cloned fetuses. Chuck Colson picked up the scent in his popular Breakpoint commentary which is read by millions of people. Soon afterwards, I discovered a nearly . . . . Continue Reading »
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