Examining bioethics, morality, and culture from a distinctively orthodox Lutheran perspective. Site dedicated to the Holy Family.
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 30th, 2009
From the UK’s Mirror:
Women who have had an abortion or miscarriage are more likely to give birth to a premature baby, researchers have found. A single termination raised the risk by 20%. Two or more increased the chances by 90%.
And women who have had more than one abortion double their risk of having a “very” [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 30th, 2009
From the June 25 Los Angeles Times:
President Obama suggested at a town hall event Wednesday night that one way to shave medical costs is to stop expensive and ultimately futile procedures performed on people who are about to die and don’t stand to gain from the extra care.
In a nationally televised event at the White [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 29th, 2009
Think “less philosophy, more practicality.” Similar to “less religion, more science.” From John H. Evans at Bioethics Forum:
Last week President Obama disbanded the President’s Council on Bioethics and signaled plans to replace it with a new bioethics commission. A White House press officer told The New York Times that the council was being disbanded “because [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 26th, 2009
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 25th, 2009
You can read Ms. Somerville’s clear and compelling treatment of the ESCR (embryonic stem cell research) issue here.
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 25th, 2009
Medical News Today is reporting that scientists at Boston’s Children’s Hospital have discovered that a protein, prosaposin, inhibits tumors from metastasizing (spreading) to other parts of the body. From the article:
[Researcher Dr. Randolph S.] Watnick and colleagues had already discovered that metastatic tumors don’t just start spreading to other organs: they prepare their “landing places” [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 24th, 2009
The devil hates Eve, for she is the mother of all living; indeed prefigured by the blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God, she is the New Eve, the Church, the Bride of Christ. Throughout history Satan has has pursued Eve in order to subjugate, control, disparage, exploit, and ultimately destroy her. No small wonder [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 24th, 2009
Capitalizing on the death of Dr. George Tiller and confusing “Trust Women” with “Abort Babies,” NARAL Pro-Choice America is offering these purple wristbands memorializing Dr. Tiller’s date of date–and at unbelievable prices. (I think you can get five for ten bucks, but note that the electronic order form automatically selects a donation of $25 for [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 24th, 2009
A must-read from National Review Online:
With Father’s Day almost upon us, expect a host of media stories on men and family life. Some will do a good job of capturing the changes and continuities associated with fatherhood in contemporary America. But other reporters and writers will generalize from their own unrepresentative networks of friends and [...]
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.