Human Gene Editing and Eugenics
A recent essay by Brendan Foht in the Washington Post reveals the backwards logic of scientists...
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Doctors Refuse to Serve on Belgium’s Euthanasia Commission
In 2002, the government of Belgium formed the Federal Evaluation and Control Commission for...
Read MoreThis Week in Bioethics
1. California Governor Signs Physician Assisted Suicide Law On Monday, Governor Jerry Brown signed...
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California Legislators Attempt Sly Maneuver to Reintroduce Physician Assisted Suicide On the heels...
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Mitochondrial Disease Research Makes Progress Earlier this week the Wall Street Journal reported...
Read MoreGet Ready for a Busy 2014 in Bioethics
My taskmasters at the CBC never allow me to rest on my laurels. Fresh off several years of stellar...
Read MoreThe Human Cloning Goal Behind Stem Cell Cures
Buried deep in an encouraging story about another advance in turning skin cells into stem cells, we see more evidence of biotechnology’s ultimate human cloning goal.First, the good news. An acid bath may be able to replace...
Read MoreMy Predictions in Bioethics Right Again!
Can you believe a year has come and gone since I last told you what would happen, before it...
Read MoreWe Can’t Let CIRM History be Rewritten
Proposition 71, which brought the misbegotten California Institute for Regenerative Medicine into being, was sold to voters in a blatantly mendacious campaign based on embryonic stem cell hype of CURES! CURES! CURES! and...
Read MoreIt’s Promise Breaking Time
In California, a bill that would allow researchers to pay women for their eggs is currently on the Governor’s desk, awaiting his signature or veto. At the CBC we have been very busy, working to make the very real risks of...
Read More2002 Krauthammer Against Human Cloning
Over at my biweekly First Things column, I urge that laws be passed outlawing all human cloning. Cloning, by the way, is the act of creating an embryo through asexual means such as somatic cell nuclear transfer (which I explain...
Read MoreHuman Cloning Obfuscation 8: A Blastocyst, Not an Embryo
Embryology text books will tell you that when fertilization is completed, an embryo is formed. That, is, a new individual organism exists — which remains the same organism until death. For scientific purposes, the...
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