The moral management of ectopic pregnancies
Fr. Howard is Director of the American Bioethics Advisory Commission The presence of an ectopic pregnancy may result from a tubal disorder or cause the…
Fr. Howard is Director of the American Bioethics Advisory Commission The presence of an ectopic pregnancy may result from a tubal disorder or cause the…
Fr. Howard is Director of the American Bioethics Advisory Commission The late 1970’s marked the beginning of a scientific revolution in biomedical technology which now…
Mildred Fay Jefferson, M.D., past board member of American Life League, past president of the National Right to Life Committee, The Right to Life Crusade and recipient of 28 honorary degrees, went quietly to meet the Lord late last week at the age of 84.
Washington, D.C. (18 October 2010) – Judie Brown, president of American Life League, issued the following statement on the death of Dr. Mildred Jefferson: “Today we mourn…
The public has not had an equitable distribution of the arguments against using human embryonic cells for stem cell research, whether the stem cells would…
Origin of the term “stem cell” The phrase “stem cell” or “stem cells” actually came from histologists. It has been in the histology texts for…
It has always been my contention that nobody should take medicine without first reading all of the information and understanding that there is a possibility of unpleasant, or even dangerous, side effects.
Dianne N. Irving, M.A., Ph.D.Professor of PhilosophyDominican House of StudiesWashington, D.C. 20017 I. Introduction The rapid advance of medical technology has left a plethora of…
The first half of 1999 has seen a flurry of activity regarding research on human stem cells. In January, Harold Varmus, director of the National…
Dianne N. Irving, M.A., Ph.D.Professor of PhilosophyDominican House of StudiesWashington, D.C. 20017 The fundamental bases for the official positions of NBAC and the White House…
Dianne N. Irving, M.A., Ph.D.Professor of PhilosophyDominican House of StudiesWashington, D.C. 20017 “This is the dream of being able to get stem cells from adults,”…
The sinister schemes of Planned Parenthood remind me of the possessed man in Mark 5:2. Christ encountered the troubled man and, at one point, the man said, “My name is Legion,” meaning multitude.