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People and Life - Interviews

Why the UN banned human cloning

Michael Cook | 26 August 2005 | 1

Earlier this year, Costa Rica was at the forefront of a campaign in the United Nations to ban both reproductive and "therapeutic" cloning. In this exclusive interview MercatorNet speaks to a diplomat who handled the negotiations.

The battle over the Crusades

Michael Cook | 19 August 2005 | 2

The modern world would have been completely different without the Crusades, says historian Thomas Madden in a MercatorNet interview.

Marriage and the free society

Carolyn Moynihan | 08 July 2005

Gay marriage is a hot button issue, but behind it is the more basic question of where marriage comes from in the first place. American writer Jennifer Roback Morse talks about the meaning of love, marriage, sexuality and family in a free society.

Cuomo cuts through ethical knot with a committee

Michael Cook | 24 June 2005

Former New York governor Mario Cuomo has proposed that an expert committee guide Congress in deciding whether human embryos are human beings. We asked former researcher and medical ethicist Dianne Irving for her comments.

Debunking the flat earth theory

Carolyn Moynihan | 03 June 2005

The mediaevals didn’t believe in a flat earth; the Galileo affair was a beat-up; and missionaries were great scientists. Any other questions about the conflict between religion and science?

Mother knows best

Carolyn Moynihan | 27 May 2005

Science is revealing the brain-enhancing changes that come with motherhood. An interview with the author of The Mommy Brain.

A life’s a life for all that

Carolyn Moynihan | 10 December 2004

In May this year a New Zealand man smothered his five-month-old daughter after she was diagnosed with lissencephalus, meaning her brain was profoundly under-developed and she would never walk or talk. Recently it took a jury only 47 minutes to find the father not guilty of any crime - a verdict that has made the position of disabled infants suddenly more precarious. Carolyn Moynihan spoke with a woman who deplores this turn of events and appeals for more understanding of disabled people and their families.

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