Georgetown not acting in accordance with Church doctrine
American Life League’s American Bioethics Advisory Commission has issued the following statement in response to a recent article (1/30/04) in The Washington Post, “GU [Georgetown University]…
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02/09/04 Response to fetal tissue research program:Georgetown not in accord with Church doctrine. 12/31/02 Response to Clonaid’s cloned baby claim:Congress must approve all-out ban on…
The corruption of the science of Human Embryology
I am a scientist, a human embryologist. I have spent a career in a “publish or perish” profession using a great deal of that time…
ALL’s Map Room Project Tracks Protests Against Planned Parenthood in 40 States
Washington, D.C. (20 October 2010) – American Life League is celebrating an all-time high in the number of tracked protests at Planned Parenthood facilities across the…
THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN ARTIFICIAL HUMAN UTERUS
Many attacks and assaults on innocent human life continue to be perpetrated today under the guise of a possible medical treatment or “cure.” Issues of…
ABAC responds to Clonaid’s cloned baby claim
“Cloning is not only an immoral act that sacrifices innocent human life for a so-called scientific gain, it is Frankenstein-ish science at its worst and…
Extinct Species: Dinosaurs and Catholic Health Care
Recent events have pointed out a very frightening scenario in the Catholic health care arena. I suspect that Catholic health care, as envisioned by those who first established it in America, has come to an untimely end.
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…
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…
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.…
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,…
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…