Read this article about a March 2002 Senate hearing which featured quadripegic actor Christopher Reeve.
An article on New Scientist website discussed the future of ESC research after Geron’s pullout.
Those who support the sanctity of life are pleased to see the ban authored by former Congressman Dave Weldon (R-FL)—renewed each year since 2004 on the Commerce, Justice and State Appropriations bill to prevent the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office from issuing patents on “human organisms”—made permanent. The House of Representatives, led by Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Lamar Smith, added the Weldon language into the bill to make this ban permanent, preventing the patenting of human embryos.
Is it not unethical to take a life to save a life? Chuck Colson works through this question and Christopher Reeve's response in a Congressional Hearing in 2003.
Please note: this article has a political bias intoned by the author. NOEL has chosen to post this article because it provides a summary of information about the current actions taken by the US goverment on embryonic stem cell research.
This article analyzes California's 2004 proposed bond, Proposition 71, that funds therapeutic and reproductive cloning with facts and examples that disprove the arguments in support of this bond.
Fr. Jerry from LifeIssues.net has compiled articles written by Dianne N. Irving on a wide variety of life-related topics. The Library web page contains various "categories" of issues about which she has written at the top of the page, and the lower section rotates these articles, as well as articles relating to them that are in current news stories.
Wesley Smith writes a compelling overview of the effect bioethics has had upon our society's acceptance of assisted suicide and euthanasia: the culture of death.
