November 2006

Those Wildly Enthusiastic New Democrats

Rep.Diana DeGette, D-Colorado, who will be the lead sponsor of a house bill to expand federally funded research said last week after meeting with the 41 new house Democrats, “to describe them as wildly enthusiasticabout this bill would be an understatement.” House-speaker elect NancyPelosi, D-California, has high priority stamped on the stem cell bill announcing [...]

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Those Wildly Enthusiastic New Democrats

Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Colorado, who will be the lead sponsor of a house bill to expand federally funded research said last week after meeting with the 41 new house Democrats, “to describe them as wildly enthusiastic about this bill would be an understatement.” House-speaker elect Nancy Pelosi, D-California, has high priority stamped on the stem [...]

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Respectable Baby Killing

(from NationalReview Online) The push to permit infanticide has entered the mainstream. The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecology (RCOG) has recommended that adebate be had about whether to permit “deliberate interventions to killinfants.” The recommendation, which was widely reported in the media, was in response to a query from the Nuffield Council on Bioethicsconcerning [...]

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Some days I just don’t sleep so well at night

Here is a sampling of clips in my inbox in the last 24 hours. First, the story of the New Zealand 66 year old woman who traveled to China for a stem cell transplant from aborted fetuses. Her son reports she has now died. Apparently she had a motor neuron disease and had the stem [...]

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Giving Bioethics a Conscience

Among the vast array of news items that I’ve come across this year, two stories clearly communicate a few of the many challenges that CBC faces every day. A Romanian girl desperately in need of money for food and rent donates her eggs repeatedly. She nearly lost her life and now suffers permanent infertility due [...]

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Giving Bioethics a Conscience

Among the vast array of news items that I’ve come across this year, two stories clearly communicate a few of the many challenges that CBC faces everyday. A Romanian girl desperately in need of money for food and rent donates her eggs repeatedly. She nearly lost her life and now suffers permanent infertility due to [...]

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Using The Body’s Own Stem Cells To Grow New Arteries

Here is yet another example of a patient’s own stem cells being used to treat his illness. Tom Reynolds is a 77 year old man with blocked arteries. The blockage he experienced was cutting off the blood supply to his legs, making it painful and difficult for him to walk. He was facing permanent disability-being [...]

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Scrambled Eggs: The Politics of Stem Cells

INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY Bioethics: Missouri passes Amendment 2, which makes cloning a constitutional right. Meanwhile, scientists grow a liver from umbilical cord cells, real progress the media and grandstanding politicians ignore. About the same time actor Michael J. Fox, former star of the appropriately named sitcom “Spin City,” was appearing in ads claiming Republican candidates [...]

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The Debate of the Century with Peter Singer: Revisited

This famous debate is now available on DVD. Order a copy today. Peter Singer has been dubbed “the world’s most influential living philosopher.” An Australian whose appointment to a chair in bioethics at Princeton University in the late 90s stirred furious controversy, he combines personal modesty and affability with a capacity to frame fresh, alarming, [...]

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A New ‘Oklahoma Land Rush’

With the passage of Proposition 71 in California, Big Biotech appears to have succeeded in sparking a cloning “Oklahoma Land Race,” pitting the various states against each other in an intense and bitter competition to attract biotech companies to locate within their borders. These perks come in two general forms, sometimes combined. First, laws allowing [...]

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