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Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 21st, 2009
A post in today’s Secondhand Smoke reminded me of the importance of using the word “embryo” to refer to human life from conception through the eighth week of development, when it is called a fetus. In the post blog author, attorney, and bioethicist Wesley J. Smith provides an interesting quote from “The Triumph of the [...]
Although I have not done this before, I thought I would post the National Right to Life Committee’s entire April 17 press release expressing their concerns about a possible end-game of embryonic stem cell research: human cloning.
For immediate release:
Friday, April 17, 2009
For more information:
Federal Legislation Department
(202) 626-8820; legfederal@aol.com
Communications Department
(202) 626-8825; mediarelations@nrlc.org [...]
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.