April 2006

Out of the country

I will be in London and Brussels all next week and taking a sabbatical from blogging. ShareTweetPinShare

Medical Futility and the case for denying treatment

Poor Andrea Clark. If you have been following the sad story of this young woman and her family’s fight to continue her medical treatment at St. Luke’s down in Texas. My friend Wesley Smith has been writing and blogging on this case all week. You can read about Andrea here and here. And Wesley’s articles […]

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Finally- the truth of the matter

Now this is what I am talking about! From the Boston Globe. Stem cell work isn’t dying April 19, 2006 THERE THEY go again! In their April 18 op-ed, Christopher Thomas Scott and Jennifer McCormick resound the false alarm that US scientists are falling behind on stem cell research because of the public’s objection to […]

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CBC’s Chairman Steps Down

What Lies Ahead, by Nigel M. de S. Cameron I am about to step down as CBC’s board chair, after serving in this role since its beginnings. We have done many things together, all aimed at helping Christians think through and engage the great questions of the 21st century. The churches are woefully unprepared for […]

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The truth of the matter

New Jersey’s $5 million dollar stem cell bill passed in 2004 is being put to good work. However, the journalistic reporting surrounding the controversy in stem cell research is baffling. Here from John George found online at MSNBC, right there in the beginning of the article the author writes, “Researchers believe embryonic stem cells, which […]

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Suicide Clinics for the Mentally Ill

There is an ongoing pretense in assisted suicide advocacythe euthanasia/assisted suicide is merely a medical matter of “lastresort” that is to be reserved only for dying people when nothing elsecan be done to alleviate suffering. But this planned assisted suicide clinic that will “serve” the mentally ill as well asphysically ill in Switzerland, belies the […]

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Handing Over vs. Giving Back: Whose Baby is it?

The practice of surrogate motherhood is as ancient as the hills. For centuries we can find stories of women having babies for other women. Until recently, surrogacy has mostly been seen as one solution to help infertile couples have that child of their own. But today, surrogacy is sometimes practiced to allow the full time […]

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