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Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 22nd, 2009
From the Family Research Council blog:
The President’s Council on Bioethics is no more. With a one-day notice, the members were told in a letter from the President that their services were no longer required. Pack up, get out. Forget the fact that they had a couple of interesting reports coming out soon, one more [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 17th, 2009
From FRCblog.com:
While the federal government lurches toward ignoring patients and wasting more taxpayer dollars on unethical, unsuccessful embryonic stem cell research, there are some bright spots in several states where ethics, and real adult stem cell treatments, are being promoted.
LOUISIANA
Prohibiting Human-Animal Hybrids
SB 115 has been sent to Gov. Jindal for his signature (expected); it is [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 9th, 2009
The New York State Catholic Conference is reporting that the Empire State Stem Cell Board will recommend June 11 that state taxpayer funds be used to pay women to harvest their eggs (oocytes) for research purposes. To the tune of, oh, ten grand. Says Kathleen M. Gallagher, director of pro-life activities for the conference,
“The New [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 20th, 2009
Although “Woman X,” a thirty-five-year-old scientist, had a pre-existing ovarian condition, her sad story adds further weight to the argument that the hyperstimulation of ovaries is. not. a. good. thing. As readers of Bioethike know, besides a procedure for in vitro fertilization (IVF), ovary hyperstimulation of thousands if not more women will be required in [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 16th, 2009
The Edmond Sun reports that Oklahoma lawmakers passed 83-0 a ban on the creation of human embryos through cloning for the purpose of harvesting their stem cells. The bill will now go to the Oklahoma Senate.
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 29th, 2009
A new video by the Family Research Council.
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 28th, 2009
According to the Web version of Congressional Quarterly,
Two House members who were the chief backers of legislation to expand embryonic stem cell research are working on a new bill that would codify President Obama’s recent executive order allowing greater federal funding for the research. Their legislation will also contain language allowing the National Institutes of [...]
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, [...]
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
(202) 626-8825; mediarelations@nrlc.org [...]
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 [...]
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.