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Posted in ESCR on Apr 22nd, 2009
Kathy Lynn Grossman asks in today’s USA Today Faith and Reason blog,
Would you let your embryos — left over in a clinic freezer from your efforts to have a child — languish on ice forever, be discarded or be used by medical researchers looking for ways to cure dread diseases?
Why, yes of course, Ms. Grossman, [...]
Posted in SCNT, Uncategorized on Apr 22nd, 2009
Three important women in my life have had hysterectomies, so this article from yesterday’s Los Angeles Times made me sit up and take notice. From the article:
For the last 35 years, most doctors have been routinely advising women undergoing hysterectomy to have their ovaries removed to prevent ovarian cancer,’ said lead author Dr. William H. [...]
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.