The meeting of the National Bioethics Advisory Commission on May 17, 1997, concerned a number of proposed recommendations to the President on human cloning. Among… Read More »Ban Human Cloning: Problems with the Clone-and-Kill Option
Model Legislation to ban the Cloning of Human Beings Whoever knowingly replicates or produces an organism that is genetically human, or is genetically a hybrid… Read More »Ban Human Cloning: Model Legislation
The arguments for cloning The National Bioethics Advisory Commission made two serious efforts to collect arguments in favor of cloning, in order to understand the… Read More »Ban Human Cloning: The arguments for cloning
As of June 20, 1997, a number of countries such as Germany, United Kingdom, Denmark, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland and Australia, have laws that ban… Read More »Ban Human Cloning: Legislation in Other Nations
Remarks on human cloning to the National Bioethics Advisory Commission March 13, 1997 Gilbert Meilaender Thank you for this opportunity to address your Commission. Although… Read More »Ban Human Cloning: Begotten, Not Made
Protecting Human Life and Dignity: The Arguments against Human Cloning The dangers associated with human cloning are extensive. Some of the objections to cloning are… Read More »Ban Human Cloning: Human Life and Dignity
Appendix: An Approach to a Key Theological Question In the debate over human cloning, one of the recurrent issues concerns “ensoulment.” At what point does… Read More »Ban Human Cloning: Appendix
For an International Ban Leon R. Kass, M.D., Ph.D. Addie Clark Harding Professor The Committee on Social Thought and The College The University of Chicago… Read More »Ban Human Cloning: For an International Ban
It is always astounding to me to read a headline claiming that the majority of Americans are willing to limit the killing of innocent children.
A research study recently released to the United Nations has revealed that globally there are at least 200 million more males than females – because of what one researcher has termed “gendercide”
As we celebrate Thanksgiving and begin our preparation for the birth of the Christ Child, I wish each of you who read this blog a most blessed and spiritually productive experience.
Some days it seems as though the world has turned completely upside down; nothing makes sense. I just experienced a couple of those days and it has left me nearly – but not totally – speechless.