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Genuinely Pro-Life
By Judie Brown Webster defines pro-life as “opposed to abortion,” but even among pro-life folks there is a vast array of opinions on what that means. So for the purposes of this article, let’s begin by saying that pro-life means we are opposed to abortion because it is a sin. It is, as St. John Paul II said, murder. In paragraph 58 of The Gospel of Life, the Holy Father taught that “the moral...
The Moral Status of the Human Embryo according to Peter Singer: Individuality, Humanity, and Personhood
Peter Singer is a prominent Australian philosopher currently at Princeton University who many might consider to hold radical views on human life. Singer argues that the early human embryo is not a human individual who is a person. He contends that the...
Recycling Babies: The Practice of Fetal Tissue Research
HISTORY The use of fetal tissue for the purposes of biomedical research dates back to the late 1920’s. As Mary Carrington Coutts explains, “As early as 1928 unsuccessful attempts were made to transplant fetal pancreas cells into diabetics (VII, Fichera...
Ethical issues in the disposition of frozen embryos by divorcing couples
Dr. Eugene is a member, American Bioethics Advisory Commission When the “right to privacy” was discovered in the “shadows” of the Constitution’s meaning (Griswold v. Connecticut) and the “right to abortion” was discovered in...
Academic fraud and conceptual transfer in bioethics: Abortion, human embryo research and psychiatric research
DeSales School of TheologyWashington, D.C. Published in Joseph W. Koterski (ed.), Proceedings of the Conference: Life and Learning IV (New York: Fordham University Press, 1995, pp. 193-215 ” … there has emerged a phenomenon unknown to antiquity that...
The impact of “scientific misinformation” on other fields: Philosophy, theology, biomedical ethics, public policy
Dianne N. Irving, M.A., Ph.D. Assistant professor of philosophy and bioethicsDeSales School of TheologyWashington, D.C. “Scientific misinformation” or inaccuracies are problematic within the field of science itself. However, perhaps few scientists are...
Planned Parenthood in Lubbock, Texas Operating in Stealth Mode
Washington, D.C. (19 October 2010) – Supporters have alerted American Life League that Aaron Women’s Clinic, an abortion center in Lubbock, Texas, is being operated by Planned Parenthood.The center is the only abortion business in the Plains region and another...