Examining bioethics, morality, and culture from a distinctively orthodox Lutheran perspective. Site dedicated to the Holy Family.
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted in ESCR, Uncategorized on Apr 16th, 2009
As noted in yesterday’s The New York Times, a goal is to have same-sex marriage in New England by 2012. Says New York Governor (D) David A. Paterson, We have a duty to make sure equality exists for everyone. To understand what His Excellency means by “equality,” see the definitions for übervalue and templating.
According to Michael Hiltzik in this March 30 piece from the Los Angeles Times, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine isn’t doing too well these days: The $6-billion [stem cell] program was enacted by voters in 2004 as Proposition 71 after a campaign of exceptional intellectual dishonesty, featuring vignettes of sufferers from diabetes, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and other [...]
Over at Secondhand Smoke, the brilliant Wesley Smith has struck an artery dissecting President “no ideology here” Obama’s convoluted comments about embryonic stem sell cell research. We’ll let you know when the teleprompter’s hemorrhaging stops.
The Orlando Sentinel’s tangy Kathleen Parker has a few things about embryonic stem cell research, including a quote from Dr. Bernadine Healy, former director of the National Institutes of Health. Healy calls embryonic stem cells ”obsolete.” After these appetizers you can click on the main course below. though federal dollars still won’t directly fund embryo destruction, federally [...]
Posted in ESCR on Mar 11th, 2009
Posted in ESCR on Mar 10th, 2009
For a limited time, Concordia Publishing House is offering a free, downloadable, 1-2 session Bible study on embryonic stem cell research (ESCR). The study was written by the Rev. Dr. Robert W. Weise, Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, and myself a few years ago. From the study: While ESCR offers many promises to those suffering [...]
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. [...]
The Reverend Robert C. Baker, B.B.A, M.Div., M.S., is an ordained pastor in The Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod, and serves as an adjunct professor of philosophy at Lindenwood University's Belleville, IL campus. He is general editor of Natural Law: A Lutheran Reappraisal (CPH, 2011), author of "Natural Law, Human Sexuality, and Forde's 'Acid Test'" appearing in that volume, is the author of What Happened To Merry Christmas?, and has authored or edited numerous Bible studies and books.
| M | T | W | T | F | S | S |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| « Oct | ||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
| 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 |
| 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 |
| 27 | 28 | 29 | ||||
