April 2005

Kidney Sales are big in India

Kidneys still for sale The buying and selling of kidneys, which is unethical and exploitative of the poor, was outlawed in 1994, but still thrives thanks to a built-in loophole in the law. And the easy availability of kidneys for a price has retarded the growth of the cadaveric transplant programme. A FRONTLINE INVESTIGATION TEAM [...]

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Kidney for Sale by Owner

I am in receipt of a new book put out by Georgetown University Press. The author is bioethicist, Dr. Mark J. Cherry. The Title: “Kidney for sale by owner: Human Organs, Transplantation and the Market”.I have yet to read this book (it just arrived yesterday) but I will be curious to see how he supports [...]

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Archive on the American Eugenics Movement

A thorough website full of documents, reports and legal rulings.

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Eugenics in America

The early eugenics movement forced sterilization upon the misfits like those with Downs Syndrome. Today, we are just eliminating them from the genetic landscape, guaranteeing they won’t reproduce. It seems to me a pretty intentional attempt to do away with a certain type of person. The burden is not on why people with Downs Syndrome [...]

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I guess we just need a demo

visit alwayson.com to discuss this article The memories are still vivid memories from my participation in an AAAS dialogue on Science, Ethics and Religion. It was the year of the famous Bill Joy essay in Wired Magazine (April 2000), “Why the future doesn’t need us”. That year the AAAS dialogue focused on Joy’s essay. Gathering [...]

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Prescription for Chaos

from nationalreview.com The Supreme Court had barely announced that it was accepting the federal government’s appeal of Oregon v. Ashcroft, and the mainstream media was already reporting the story incorrectly. For example, the Associated Press’s lead paragraph about the news stated: The Supreme Court said Tuesday it will hear a challenge to the nation’s only [...]

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It Didn’t Start with Dolly

(from weeklystandard.com) HERE’S AN EASY POP QUIZ: What’s the name of the first cloned mammal? If you answered, “Dolly,” that would be… wrong. Wrong? But wasn’t Dolly the sheep touted by the media as the first mammal ever made “asexually” through the cell nuclear transfer cloning process? Yes, but there are a lot of things [...]

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Interview with Christine Rosen, CBC Network

CBC’s National Director, Jennifer Lahl interviews Christine Rosen, author of Preaching Eugenics: Religious Leaders and the American Eugenics Movement (2004) 1. Why did you write Preaching Eugenics? Was there a big overarching questions you were attempting to answer? I wrote Preaching Eugenics because I thought it was important to describe this unknown part of our [...]

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Leon Kass Interview

Interview conducted by Kathryn Jean Lopez for the national review online, April 5, 2004 On Thursday, the President’s Council on Bioethics issued a its latest report, “Reproduction and Responsibility: The Regulation of New Biotechnologies.” Dr. Leon Kass, head of the commission — who is a medical doctor, a professor on leave from the University of [...]

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Pushing Infanticide from Holland to New Jersey

Bureaucracy has trumped morality in the Netherlands. How else can one explain a country where, when doctors admit publicly that they commit eugenic infanticide, the leaders’ response is not to prosecute them for murder, but instead to urge that guidelines be created under which future baby killings can openly take place? The “Groningen Protocol” — [...]

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