I recently read an article that called to mind a Daryl Hannah quote from the movie, “Steel Magnolias.” Hannah plays Annelle, a young woman who has prepared a dish for the funeral of Shelby, played by Julia Roberts,...
Read MoreThe Washington Post is reporting that scientists have for the first time created an embryo that is part human and part pig. The long-term goal is to provide organs for transplant, given that the need for organs always runs well...
Read MoreLast week on her personal Facebook account, Jennifer posed the question, “What’s going to be the fall-out from the human social experiment of embryo donation and adoption?” A healthy discussion followed in the...
Read MoreEarlier this week scientists announced that they had successfully grown a human heart using stem cells. That in itself is a major development. But to the surprise of many these stem cells did not come from embryos, but rather...
Read MoreGrowing up, I can’t even count the number of times I watched the Disney movie The Parent Trap (the...
Read MoreI have to confess, I hadn’t heard of Sofia Vergara or her ex-fiance, Nick Loeb, until the frozen...
Read MoreThe UK rubber stamp Embryo Authority has approved the manufacture of three-parent human embryos. The process is done by removing the nucleus from the egg of one woman, putting it into the enucleated egg of another, and then...
Read MoreThe more we remove reproduction from the normal way of having babies, the more complicated things become. Now, a court is to decide what happens to embryos after a couple splits — as if they are mere property. From the UPI...
Read MoreIn this new video segment posted on CNN, a family from Iowa decides to grow their family through the adoption of frozen embryos. The couple discusses how excited they were to track their embryos as they were shipped to them...
Read MoreOur friends at the Human Life Review include an article by Shirley Darby Howell in the last issue of the Review on the messy world of frozen embryos and their legal statuses. The article is primarily an expose of the current...
Read MoreEmbryology 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...
Read MoreI just read an article that is a clear call for Germany to get in on the human cloning game. And as so often happens in this issue, it is filled with scientific inaccuracies — whether by intent or ignorance, I don’t...
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