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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 [...]

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According to this April 18 article in The Washington Post, the Obama administration on Friday issued compromise rules on federally-funded embryonic stem cell research. The rules would limit research, paid for by taxpayers, to using “excess” embryos voluntarily donated by their parents/owners and offered without remuneration. These embryos are now cryogenically stored in IVF and [...]

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Neurobiologist Dr. Maureen L. Condic’s April 16 “Does Research Really Need Human Embryos and Cloning?” in The Daily Beast is a must read. Here’s an excerpt: Claim: Human embryonic stem-cell research involves only embryos that will be discarded by fertility clinics. False. Human-embryo cloning is the endgame. HESC proponents are now advocating for tax funding [...]

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The number of female reversible contraception clients 2007-2008 was down 3.8%, but the number of abortions was up 5.4%. In total, Planned Parenthood destroyed the lives of 305,310 human beings last year through abortion. You can read the report here. Kyrie eleison!

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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 [...]

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Friends, it is absolutely crucial to understand what Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer is, and what it isn’t. It is cloning; even supporters of SCNT say so, even if only they call it therapeutic (vs. reproductive) cloning. Carefully read this from “California Stem Cell” (CSC), a company that apparently sells stem cells and host of complementary products [...]

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Bill, a poster at GetReligion.org has responded to my second post regarding embryonic stem cell research. Fearing that our playful repartee might be cut off  by the GR powers that be, Bill was kind enough to post here at Bioethike (see Bill’s comment under previous post). Privately, I’ve promised Bill a response. Here goes: Bill: Robert, I [...]

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I’ve been having fun with “Bill” over at GetReligion.org. Here’s my recent reply: What Bill is proposing is that DNA be extracted from a person needing a transplant, say, for a liver. That DNA would be placed in an enucleated oocyte. Embryonic stem cells harvested from this clone (Bill objects to this terminology; let’s call [...]

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Moving away from ”dogma” to “sound scientific practice,” as one adviser put it, President Obama is expected to sign a bill tomorrow reversing the government’s ban on using federal (read: your) money to fund embryonic stem-cell research. No big deal if you believe that human life begins at implantation, live birth, or doesn’t matter at all. [...]

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