March 2007

Un-informed Consent: An interview with David Pauls

Jennifer Lahl (National Director of CBCNetwork): As it relates to informed consent-can only a doctor give informed consent? Pauls: Only the patient or research subject (or there lawfully appointed guardian) can give informed consent to a procedure. It is the duty of the doctor or researcher to initiate the process by educating the patient or [...]

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Un-informed Consent: Why Cloning Breaks All the Rules

If you came to me to have your hernia repaired, you would expect me to tell you about the operation, the recovery time and the risks of the operation. If you had questions, I would be expected to answer them in such a way that you would understand what I was saying. This is taught [...]

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Sick to Death

That’s what Elizabeth Edwards has said about hearing all the news about her breast cancer spreading to her bones. Now she’s stumping for a more liberal stem cell research policy stating, “If people think that you’re throwing babies out, dissecting children, to do stem-cell research, I’m not for that,” and this, “We’re talking about using [...]

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Senate Bill 812

Hatch and Feinstein have introduced their newest version of their anti human cloning ban which legalises human cloning! Wesley Smith has a great piece on this bill here. It’s called the human cloning ban and stem cell protection act of 2007. The bill also specifically “protects women egg donors” by making sure big biotech isn’t [...]

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Defenders of Human Dignity

The Center for Bioethics and Culture Network is host to the annual Paul Ramsey Award Dinner at the Lakeside Olympic Club in San Francisco. The event honors those among us that have and are deeply impacting the bioethics discussion by actively equipping our society to face the challenges of the 21st century, profoundly defending the [...]

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Defenders of Human Dignity

The Center for Bioethics and Culture Network is host to the annual Paul Ramsey Award Dinner at the Lakeside Olympic Club in San Francisco. The event honors those among us that have and are deeply impacting the bioethics discussion by actively equipping our society to face the challenges of the 21st century, profoundly defending the [...]

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Top Ten Objections to Sex Selection

Recently Dr. Edgar Dahl, spokesman for the German Society for Reproductive Medicine wrote about the 10 most common objections to sex selection and why he feels they are far from conclusive. His article, published in Reproductive BioMedicine Online, Vol. 14, Suppl. 1 2007 is in response to the recommendation that the British Parliament ought to [...]

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Top Ten Objections to Sex Selection

Recently Dr. Edgar Dahl, spokesman for the German Society for Reproductive Medicine wrote about the 10 most common objections to sex selection andwhy he feels they are far from conclusive. His article, published inReproductive BioMedicine Online, Vol. 14, Suppl. 1 2007 is in responseto the recommendation that the British Parliament ought to outlaw sex selectionexcept [...]

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Cloning Doubletalk

(from the weeklystandard.com) SENATORS DIANNE FEINSTEIN and Orin Hatch have just introduced Senate Bill 812, which explicitly legalizes human cloning and–since a shortage of human eggs is currently impeding human cloning research (one egg is needed for each attempt at cloning)–the bill also authorizes researchers to pay women to undergo egg procurement. And if the [...]

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How Babies Went From Persons to Products: An Interview

Jennifer Lahl: How did you get involved in the field of bioethics? William E. May:I became interested in bioethics in 1968 while working as an editor forthe Bruce Publishing Co in Milwaukee WI and when I completed my Ph.D.dissertation in philosophy at Marquette University. My wife wasexpecting our sixth child, Susan, born Oct. 5 1968. [...]

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