October 2005

Umbilical Cord Blood Stem Cells Treat Spinal Cord Injury!

I have known about this for some time, but because I didn’t want to be guilty of the same hyping that is so often engaged in by some therapeutic cloning proponents, I waited until it was published in a peer reviewed journal. Now it has been and the news is HUGE: Korean scientists have used […]

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One of my new heroes

I have many new heroes and friends who I shared my hurricane Wilma experience with. I have so many to thank, so many I am grateful for and to. We so often hear the negative stories and so quickly look to find someone to blame for our circumstances. The human future is built on our […]

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Hurricane Wilma

How ironic that my last post was on Hurricane Katrina and I just got home late last night after spending a week in Cancun Mexico, enduring with 1000’s of others the devastation of Hurricane Wilma! I am forever grateful for David, our team leader, who like the good shepard, layed down his life for the […]

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2006 Paul Ramsey Award Winner

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2005 Paul Ramsey Award Winner

Germain Grisez is the Flynn Professor of Christian Ethics at Mount Saint Mary’s University, Emmitsburg, Maryland, a chair he has held since 1978. His doctorate in philosophy was from the University of Chicago (1959). He is a past president of the American Catholic Philosophical Association. Working with Joseph Boyle and John Finnis, Grisez has developed […]

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End Run: A Korean company tries to short circuit bans on cloning and stem-cells.

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A Kass Act

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Euthanasia in New Orleans: Fact or Urban Legend?

When the Daily Telegraph ran their piece, Patients put down on September 12, 2005, reporting that a female physician had chosen to euthanize patients who were critically ill and could not be evacuated prior to Katrina, it went unnoticed in the mainstream media. Then on September 22, 2005, another piece ran on the MichNews.com site, […]

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Long long ago, in a city far far away

The pied piper came to town selling snake oil in exchange for $6 billion dollars. “Too good to be true? Well, snakeoil has been sold before.” ShareTweetPinShare

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Human Cloning Commodifies Life

Whenever we treat the “parts” of human life as a raw material or a research product or something we can make a fast buck with, we run the risk of treating human life as a commodity. For that matter whenever we treat people as products that is what we are doing. Of course this strips […]

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