Posted in Bioethics, Culture, Health Care, Right to Life issues, Uncategorized on Sep 1st, 2009
Wouldn’t that be an unbelievable truth to give a child. One couple did and their story is worth five minutes of your time.
A proposed bill in Senate that is.
Two members of the U.S. Senate who have been behind unsuccessful efforts to ban all forms of human cloning have introduced new legislation with a new approach. They want to ban the use of human cloning to make human-animal hybrids, the kind of research taking place currently in England.
Stephen [...]
Posted in Abortion, Bioethics, Culture, Faith on Jul 10th, 2009
Pope Benedict XVI and President Obama met today at the Vatican.
Pope Benedict XVI received President Barack Obama this afternoon in his private library, and after 36 minutes of private conversation, the pair emerged without providing any details about their topics of conversation.
The meeting between the Pope and the U.S. President started at 4:25 p.m. local [...]
Posted in Bioethics, Culture, Health Care on Jun 30th, 2009
Ingenuity in the realm of art could provide an amazing tool for the medical field that would allow doctors and parents to literally use open arms to welcome their unborn child into the world.. A London art student’s recent design creates life size versions of their child in the womb for parents to hold.
The startling new medical technology [...]
The description of this lawsuit sounds just sounds wrong.
In the months before their daughter was born in 2007, Deborah and Ariel Levy worried the baby might have Down syndrome.
They say a doctor at the Legacy Center for Maternal-Fetal Medicine assured them that a sample of tissue taken from the placenta early in the pregnancy ruled [...]
Posted in Bioethics, Culture, Health Care on Jun 16th, 2009
…the results are not always perfect. Far from it sometimes.
A couple’s last hopes of having another child have been shattered after an appalling blunder at an NHS fertility clinic led to their final usable embryo being implanted into the wrong patient.
The error was made by an overworked trainee doctor who failed to carry out strict [...]
Posted in Abortion, Bioethics, Culture, Education on May 18th, 2009
*post updated with more accurate information*
The President was awarded an honorary degree at the University of Notre Dame. Like so many individuals in opposition, I had hoped somehow the university would have rescinded at least that part of the invitation. Instead, the President was honored with a Doctorate in Law from a prestigious Catholic university. [...]
Posted in Abortion, Bioethics, Culture, Euthanasia on May 6th, 2009
Ten years ago, this photo was captured in a pre-birth operation:
On Aug. 19, 1999, photographer Michael Clancy shot the “Fetal Hand Grasp” — his picture of a 21-week-old fetus grasping a doctor’s finger during innovative surgery to correct spina bifida. Nearly four months later, on Dec. 2, Samuel Armas was “born famous.”
The photo, which first [...]
Posted in Bioethics, Culture, Faith, Media, Society on May 4th, 2009
In a culture struggling to understand truth, the Pope’s recent proclamation that condoms are harming, not helping the HIV/AIDS situation, outraged people. ‘How dare anyone ‘force’ their ideology on another? Especially one as wacky as abstinence?’ That’s what many Americans, and members of other nations shouted at the Pope. But what did the Africans have to say [...]
Posted in Bioethics, Culture, Faith, Government, Health Care, Science on Apr 6th, 2009
Oprah hosted Dr. Oz and Michael J. Fox on her show recently. In their discussion, Dr. Oz explained stem cell reasearch and how it works to cure diseases. In his explanation he said he believed tembryonic stem cell is dead and adult stem cell research will make significant progress in the next few years.
The three [...]