I have been warning of late that science and bioethics have grown so ideological that many in these and related fields assert that there is a constitutional right to do science. (Evidence of the growing attention being paid to these issues can be found in this press release issued by Georgia Tech.) . . . . Continue Reading »
The son and daughter-in-law of the late Hunter Thompson told the Rocky Mountain News that Thompson lived and died as “a warrior.” Baloney. A warrior lives and dies in the service of others; a family, a tribe, a country. A warrior is bound by a code of honor. Thompson lived and died for . . . . Continue Reading »
In this article, published in the Center for Bioethics and Culture on-line weekly newsletter, I describe how radical the human cloning agenda has become in just a few short . . . . Continue Reading »
The Virginia legislature has passed legislation that will fund (assuming the governor signs the bill) adult and umbilical cord stem cell research. No cloning or embryonic research will be financed. Virginia also outlaws human cloning, although some observers contend that the wording of the law may . . . . Continue Reading »
Chuck Colson’s Breakpoint exposes his millions of listeners and readers to Washington’s pending “anti-cloning” legislation, a bill that pretends to outlaw human cloning, but which actually legalizes human somatic cell nuclear transfer, implantation of resulting cloned . . . . Continue Reading »
The media is reporting that the Bush Administration is trying to overturn Oregon’s assisted suicide law in the Supreme Court. I wish. What is really at stake is the power of the federal government to enforce federal law uniformly in all fifty states. I describe the case in this article . . . . Continue Reading »
Two lawsuits have been filed against Proposition 71. True to form, most of the media zeroed in on the religious beliefs of some of the litigants. The media has decided that the cloning controversy is one of religion versus science, and nothing is going to knock them off that approach. But it seems . . . . Continue Reading »
Good news from Washington: The United States Supreme Court will rule next year on whether the Attorney General of the United States had the right to interpret the federal Controlled Substances Act as prohibiting the use of drugs regulated by the feds for use in assisted suicide on the basis that . . . . Continue Reading »
One would expect the St. Louis Business Journal to publish an editorial supporting Big Biotech’s desire to promote human cloning as a potential gargantuan profit-making technology in the fields of science and medicine. The editors are certainly entitled to their opinion. But what is so . . . . Continue Reading »