October 2008

Wesley Smith Receives Award

The Center for Bioethics and Culture Network is pleased to announce that Wesley J. Smith, Special Consultant to the CBC, has been honored with the 2008 ‘Great Defender of Life’ award by the Human Life Foundation. The Center for Bioethics and Culture Network is pleased to announce that Wesley J. Smith, Special Consultant to the […]

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Scientists grow eggs from five-year-old girls

A colleague just sent me this article. Last year, when I was in London, attending the annual ISMAAR conference on Mild Approaches to Assisted Reproduction, I heard Teresa Woodruff from Northwestern speak on her research in this area. This article in today’s London Telegraph states, “Scientists have grown eggs from tissue taken from five-year-old girls […]

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2009 Paul Ramsey Award Winner

The Center for Bioethics and Culture Network is pleased to announce Gilbert Meilaender as the recipient of the 2009 Paul Ramsey Award. Dr. Meilaender is the Richard & Phyllis Duesenberg Professor of Christian Ethics at Valparaiso University and serves on the President’s Council on Bioethics. Professor Meilaender is an associate editor for the Journal of […]

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Australian Ban on Human-Animal Hybrids Remains

Some good news today. Since 2002, Australia has banned the creation of human-animal hybrids to produce embryonic stem cells, and now Australia has decided their ban will remain in place. Here Here! And their ban has teeth in it too. If you are caught creating stem cells from hybrid embryos you can face the maximum […]

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Wait a Minute to Cloning Patent Down Under

“A disgraced South Korean scientist’s application for a patent to protect his disputed human embryo cloning technology is still under review, Australia’s intellectual property protection body says. Agency spokespeople have refused to comment on why the patent would not be granted as scheduled.” It is now widely known that the cloning research of Dr. Hwang, […]

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They Can’t Handle the Truth

Crazy Brave New Britain just keeps pushing the envelope. There is this news which permits the use of hybrid animal-human embryos for stem cell research, overhauling their existing science laws and policies. And clarifying that YES, embryos can be screened to produce babies to provide a “suitable” bone marrow OR “other material” for transplant into […]

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Wasting Away in Margaritaville

Last week, one of my ‘friends’ on facebook announced that he is moving to Margaritaville if Senator Barack Obama is elected. I say friends loosely since the strange reality on facebook is you can be friends with people you’ve never met, who live in places you’ve never been to, and who often hold wildly different […]

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2009 Paul Ramsey Award Winner

The Center for Bioethics and Culture Network is pleased to announce Gilbert Meilaender as the recipient of the 2009 Paul Ramsey Award. Dr. Meilaender is the Richard & Phyllis Duesenberg Professor of Christian Ethics at Valparaiso University and serves on the President’s Council on Bioethics. Professor Meilaender is an associate editor for the οΎ  Journal […]

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Wesley Smith Receives Award

The Center for Bioethics and Culture Network is pleased to announce that Wesley J. Smith, Special Consultant to the CBC, has been honored with the 2008 ‘Great Defender of Life’ award by the Human Life Foundation. Jennifer Lahl, National Director of the CBC recently spoke with Wesley about this honor. Wesley said, “I believe that […]

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There Will Be Cures

When I read Jeff Sheehy’s quote in the May 2008 Nature article on “The $3-Billion- Dollar Question”, I knew we were doomed. Sheehy, responding to the megabillion give-away of Prop. 71 funds by the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), asked a simple question: “We’re going to make a lot of rich people richer. Why […]

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Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger – California’s Biggest Loser

And I don’t mean in weight loss. This past week our Governor has been very busy. First, he vetoed SB 1565 and then he passed AB 2747. SB 1565 would have guaranteed that cures developed out of the $3 billion in tax payer funding for prop. 71 (embryonic/cloning research) would have been available to poor, […]

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