Bioethike

Says the American Family Asssociation, Congress is set to give legally protected status to 30 sexual orientations, including incest. Because of pressure from homosexual groups, Congress has refused to define what is meant by sexual orientation in H.R. 1913, the “Hate Crimes” bill. This means that the 30 different sexual orientations will be federally protected [...]

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An article in yesterday’s The New York Times trots out the shopworn “Church vs. State” argument on gay marriage. Although author Jeremy W. Peters and the good folks at The Gray Lady are to be to commended for inquiring into the conflicting perspectives about this issue within the religious African-American community, it is unfortunate that [...]

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it’s yours. Mine. Ours. I came across this piece, “Despotism–The Soft Way,” from Dr. Samuel Gregg, director of research at the Acton Institute, and it gave me pause to consider how your money, my money, our money, is being used by our government to support and encourage abortion both here and abroad. Have we become [...]

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According to this Wall Street Journal report, Federal officials declared a health emergency on Sunday, as they confirmed 20 cases of swine flu in five states, mobilized medicine stockpiles, and warned the public that the number and severity of incidences were likely to increase.

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The AP reports The Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday it would accept, not appeal, a federal judge’s order that lifts Bush administration restrictions limiting over-the-counter sales of “Plan B” to women 18 and older. U.S. District Judge Edward Korman ruled last month in a lawsuit filed in New York that President George W. Bush’s [...]

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Reports Reuters, Researchers have developed a new way to make embryonic-like stem cells by soaking them in genetically engineered proteins, a new step toward using ordinary cells to treat disease. An international team led by the Scripps Research Institute in California said on Thursday it is the safest method yet found to transform ordinary skin [...]

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Researchers are finding that the FDA-approved drug teriparatide combines with stem cells to heal bones in older patients at rate similar to young people. Notes News-Medical.net, Baseline research presented in February at the Orthopaedic Research Society meeting revealed that of 145 patients who had an unhealed bone fracture – half of them for six months [...]

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Appearing before the US House Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton defended the Obama administration’s push for abortion not only here but also overseas, according to this AFP report. Said Clinton, We happen to think that family planning is an important part of women’s health and reproductive health includes access [...]

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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, [...]

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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 [...]

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