Bioethike

Augsburg Confession XVI: Of Civil Affairs they teach that lawful civil ordinances are good works of God, and that it is right for Christians to bear civil office, to sit as judges, to judge matters by the Imperial and other existing laws, to award just punishments, to engage in just wars (iure bellare, rechte Kriege [...]

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Oh no, I don’t favor President Obama’s repeal of DADT. At first blush, I suppose that there are numerous arguments to suggest that such a repeal is not a good thing. Chief among those might be that this is only part of an even greater effort to legitimize homosexual behavior in American society. However, given [...]

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From BioEdge: A social trend which has had a tremendous impact upon bioethics is the separation between sex and reproduction made possible by contraception. Why not separate reproduction from parenthood? This is the possibility explored by Daniela E. Cutas, of the University of Gothenburg, and Lisa Bortolotti, of the University of Birmingham, in a recent [...]

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No Christian advocates bullying, intimidation, illegal discrimination, or murder. But ELCA Presiding Bishop Hanson’s heresy against the Most Holy and Triune God, that God is the author of sin by creating teens to have same-sex impulses and, by logical extension, to act upon them, is beyond the pale of Christianity. That’s how Hanson’s video, part [...]

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First there was the Pill, then Plan B (the “morning-after” pill). Now, meet Ella. Approved by the FDA today, this drug prevents pregnancies up to five days after intercourse. Which also means, in lay terms, that it also acts as an abortifacient. I wonder what’s next. So far, we have drugs that contracept/abort one day [...]

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You must check out the blog for the Center for Morality in Public life. Titled Ethika Politika (sounds familiar, doesn’t it?!?), this looks like it going to be a treasure trove for those wishing to applying natural law thinking to contemporary, hot-button issues. CFMPL President Andrew Haines was kind enough to e-mail me last week. [...]

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In faint opposition to what is becoming de rigueur among mainline “Protestant” church bodies, on July 9 the 219th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church U.S.A. narrowly maintained the Bible’s definition of marriage–between one man and one woman. The affirmation of the biblical doctrine received a mere 51% of the votes. The church body also [...]

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The Los Angeles Times reporting: U.S. District Judge Joseph Tauro ruled July 8 that the 1996 federal Defense of Marriage Act discriminates against states like Massachusetts that have legalized gay “marriage.” States are permitted to define marriage as they wish, according to Tauro’s reasoning. He also ruled that DOMA violates the Equal Protection Clause, part [...]

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Absent Autonomy: CTCR Ethical Recommendations Regarding the Beginning of Human Life Robert C. Baker For partial credit toward MHE 604 Section 01 Social and Cultural Contexts of Health Care – Summer I 2010 Word Count: 1,935 Abstract: The Commission on Theology and Church Relations (CTCR) of The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS) aids that church body [...]

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Obama clearly honors a “two-father family” as a “nurturing family.” I thought that, generally speaking, women were the more nurturing sex. Why not a three- or four-father family? This is really getting confusing!

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