bioethics

Defence of the foetus deserves a prize

Carolyn Moynihan | 06 October 2006 | comment 1

Something more important than genetic research was in the press this week: a reminder from an eminent doctor that it's wrong to tear a foetus from the womb.

The genius of cloning

Michael Cook | 06 October 2006

Stem cell scientists ought to follow their ethical arguments to a logical conclusion.

Light at the end of a stem cell tunnel

Michaela Kingston | 31 August 2006

There was good news and bad news about human embryo research last week. As usual, everyone ignored the good news.

Hoping against hope in Missouri

Michael Cook | 27 August 2006

In November Missouri voters will decide whether their state should legalise therapeutic cloning. Are they being told the whole truth?

Vaccinating children against cervical cancer

Carolyn Moynihan | 28 July 2006

Preparing kids for love and marriage just got a lot more complicated.

Harvard’s stem cell misstep

Michael Cook | 29 June 2006 | comment 2

Harvard University has given the cause of therapeutic cloning the backing of its immense prestige. A stem cell scientist tells MercatorNet that this is based on inflated hopes and bad science.

Talking us to death

Margaret Somerville | 25 May 2006

To legalize euthanasia would fundamentally change the way we understand ourselves, human life and its meaning.

When lives are expendable

Matthew Mehan | 25 April 2006

Leading American journalist Ramesh Ponnuru analyses the current state of the right to life in politics, universities, the courts, and the press in this exclusive interview.

The very profitable business of creating babies

Michael Cook | 07 April 2006 | comment 1

"Miracle babies" in the arms of beaming mothers are great public relations for the IVF industry. And a great money-spinner, too.

Brave New Biology

Leon R. Kass | 31 March 2006

The achievements of modern medicine are a boon, but when scientists offer to enhance and improve human nature, they threaten human dignity.

No more business as usual for stem cell research

Michael Cook | 12 January 2006

Revelations of fraud and unethical conduct in the world’s leading embryonic stem cell lab could lead to a rethink of stem cell ethics.

60 years after Nuremberg, how much have we learned?

Cason Cheely | 10 January 2006 | comment 1

The trial of German doctors who used prisoners for ghastly experiments during World War II is still relevant today.

Drunken Santas in a stem cell sleigh

Michael Cook | 22 December 2005

Australia could have the world’s most liberal regulation of embryo research if the recommendations of a government committee are adopted.

To clone or not to clone

Michael Cook | 07 December 2005 | comment 3

Whether or not embryos should be cloned and then destroyed for their stem cells has been one of the hottest issues in science this year. James Sherley, a professor at MIT, says that the use of cells from cloned embryos is scientifically and ethically dubious.

Cloning pioneer hits the wall

Michael Cook | 30 November 2005

A Korean national hero has confessed that he told lies about his research about cloning human embryos. Will his colleagues 'fess up, too?

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