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Posted in Global Warming, condoms on Mar 31st, 2009
St. Louis tulips, buttercups, and hyacinths are ablaze with riotous color and yet nighttime temperatures are still in the thirties. Thus, mornings while I’m wrapping my feet up in a blanket as I drink a hot cup of joe, I’m having difficulty wrapping my noodle around the concept of “global warming.”
Seems not too far back folks [...]
According to this piece from LifeNews.com editor Steven Ertelt (March 31), the National Right to Life Committee is warning members of Congress of a bill it anticipates will seek to overturn the longstanding 1996 Dickey-Wicker amendment, which prohibits the creation of human embryos for research.
Writes Ertelt,
The NRLC letter says “there is a substantial chance that you will [...]
According to Michael Hiltzik in this March 30 piece from the Los Angeles Times, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine isn’t doing too well these days:
The $6-billion [stem cell] program was enacted by voters in 2004 as Proposition 71 after a campaign of exceptional intellectual dishonesty, featuring vignettes of sufferers from diabetes, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and other heartbreaking [...]
Morpheus to Neo:
This is your last chance. After this, there is no going back. You take the blue pill and the story ends. You wake in your bed and you believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill and you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. [...]
Posted in Heart will begin beating in 2 days--if not aborted on Mar 25th, 2009
In its 22-day lifespan, Bioethike has been viewed 540 times. We hope that mean, old “non-ideological science” will leave us alone so that we can develop naturally. The most popular post so far has been “The Lutheran Church and Sexuality.” Thank you for visiting and posting, and come again!
Robert C. Baker
Over at Secondhand Smoke, the brilliant Wesley Smith has struck an artery dissecting President “no ideology here” Obama’s convoluted comments about embryonic stem sell cell research.
We’ll let you know when the teleprompter’s hemorrhaging stops.
Posted in Totally off the wall on Mar 24th, 2009
Here’s an interesting piece from The New York Times on the evolution (read: creational development) of animal weaponry. Seems men aren’t too much unlike the dung beetle after all.
File another one under “ridiculous ideology vs. compassionate science.”
According to tomorrow’s Washington Post (March 24, 2009; p. AO2, subscription required), US District Judge Edward R. Korman is requiring the FDA to revisit its position on Plan B, enacted during the Bush administration, and to make the “emergency contraceptive” available to 17 year old girls within 30 days, and [...]
Posted in sex on Mar 23rd, 2009
This piece from KansasCity.com suggests that cheaper Chinese condoms are causing a
dilemma for the folks at the U.S. Agency for International Development, which has distributed an estimated 10 billion U.S.-made AIDS-preventing condoms in poor countries around the world.
Which makes me ask, “Why are my federal tax dollars being used to purchase condoms which, in the African [...]
Posted in HIV and AIDS, condoms on Mar 22nd, 2009
According to this March 17, 2009 AP report (appearing on page A-11 of the March 18, 2009 New York edition of The New York Times), the pope’s recent comments in Africa regarding condom usage and AIDS sparked outrage in many quarters, even among his own clergy.
Benedict believes that abstinence, not condoms, should be a key element in AIDS prevention.
Remarkably, [...]
The Reverend Robert C. Baker, B.B.A, M.Div., is an ordained pastor in The Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod, and serves the Church as an editor at the denomination's publishing house. He is currently pursuing an M.S. degree in Health Care Ethics at Creighton University. He is the author of What Happened To Merry Christmas? and How Do You Start a Fire with Water? and has authored or edited numerous Bible studies and books.