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…
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…
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.…
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,…
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…
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…
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…