Breaking NewsAdult Stem Cells In Breast Milk Work Like Embryonic Cells
Researchers in Australia have found stem cells in breast milk that, like embryonic stem cells, can become many different types of cells in the body. The Singularity Film
[Note: There are several definitions of "singularity", but the concept seems to originate from Darwinian physics in describing the Big Bang theory, black holes, and involves an "infinity" of space/time merger. The term is also used today by futurists, transhumanists, technoprogressives, postnaturalists, and their researchers, etc., to point to "when humans and machines merge" to create a "superintelligence" (see Ray Kurzweil). It is in this latter sense that the term is used below. Both senses have gnostic roots. -- DNI] The Singularity
[Note: Biblical experts needed. In a recent blog on IEET (Institute for ETHICS and Emerging Technologies), I asked them how they were defining the “ethics” they needed to advance transhumanism, futurism, posthumanism, etc., and reach “the singularity” that these gnostics pursue [http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/5553]. One interesting admission from the bloggers was that their “ethics” would necessarily have to be “revolutionary”, and would probably not sit well with mainstream Christianity (or any other historical "ethics"); their solution was to figure out how to camouflage their “ethics” long enough to draw Christians into their “cosmic” reality, since like it or not they would need to use them to reach their goals. My guess is that the following is an example of one of their efforts at camouflaged “Christian appeal” and “outreach”. – DNI] London IVF Clinic Makes £25 Million Annual Profit
A controversial fertility doctor has raked in £25million in a single year. £750 For Your Eggs: Fertility Firm Targets Cambridge Uni Girls
Thousands of Cambridge students have been targeted by a firm offering up to £750 to egg donors. In Choosing A Sperm Donor, A Roll Of The Genetic Dice
Sharine and Brian Kretchmar of Yukon, Okla., tried a number of medical treatments to conceive a second child. After a depressing series of failures, a doctor finally advised them to find a sperm donor. Herbicide Effects Extend Beyond Plants
Herbicide tolerant crops, developed through genetic engineering, were supposed to control weeds, and Bt crops were intended to control insect pests.
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Ethical Perspectives Michael Cook
A briefing by the Health Department soon afterwards alleged that there were serious shortcomings in the hospital's procedures. Janet E. Smith
Those who believe abortion to be a morally permissible act are not troubled by the charge that use of aborted fetal tissue amounts to complicity in abortion. Since they do not believe the fetus is a person, they maintain that it is permissible to use fetal tissue much in the same way one could use the hair gathered from the floor of a barber shop. They see use of fetal tissue as transforming what seems to be needless waste into a compassionate good. Anthony J. Caruso
In 2010 an eminent Chicago IVF doctor left his practice of creating babies in Petri dishes. This is his story. C. Ward Kischer
Over the years I have usually given a copy of my articles to a friend of mine whose life profession has been that of a salesperson. After reading my last article [Have They Never Heard Of Human Embryology?] he asked me: "Why don't these people cite Human Embryology when they write about life issues?". My reply: "Because if they did, the game is over", which is to say they would be acknowledging that the new individual human life begins at first contact of the sperm with the oocyte; that pregnancy begins at that precise moment; that at that moment a new human life is not a part of the mother but a new human being; that the fate of that new human being is not couched in reproductive rights of the mother; that abortion kills that new individual human life; that embryonic cells are not embryonic stem cells; that the new individual human life is not "potential" but real. Judie Brown
In today's often selfish, me-first society, where a person's own wants and needs come before that of family, children, or the best interest of someone else, the truth about contraception is either rarely seen or is scoffed at. When a woman does not want to become pregnant, she happily pops a pill. When a man is afraid of having a child or having more children, he encourages contraception - a regular dose of the pill or the emergency morning-after pill. And if that doesn't work, then murdering the baby is a legal option. Never once do these people think of God's will for a family, for the baby they may have created, or for the health of the woman ingesting caustic chemicals into her body. Even the government is justifying this behavior and wants to pay for it. But what is the truth about birth control pills? Matt C. Abbott
Techniques that entail the dissociation of husband and wife, by the intrusion of a person other than the couple (donation of sperm or ovum, surrogate uterus), are gravely immoral. These techniques (heterologous artificial insemination and fertilization) infringe the child's right to be born of a father and mother known to him and bound to each other by marriage. They betray the spouses' 'right to become a father and a mother only through each other.' (CCC no. 2376)
Michael Cook
Despite the prestige that Singer and Savulescu and other utilitarians have, at least in the media, loopiness is hard-wired into their philosophy. A utilitarian bioethicist is always going to be a loose cannon, rolling wildly around the deck in ethical storms, splintering and smashing the fragile public image of his or her profession. If other bioethicists want to repair their dented prestige, shunning utilitarian colleagues would be a good place to start. Judie Brown
As scientific advances are made, nearly on a daily basis, scientists seem to be forgetting about the humanity inherent in people. If they can pioneer some new form of science, or "create" a person in a lab, then they are more than willing to do so - no matter the cost. When people are treated as commodities, everyone suffers. Judie Brown
The use of aborted fetal cells in the research and development of PepsiCo's food products continues to shock and disgust people throughout the world. This unconscionable act is now deemed as an acceptable business venture by the Obama administration. Read more about what PepsiCo is doing, how it affects all of us, and what we can do.
Michael Cook
The flames of bioethical controversy crackle loudest in the media when stem cells or euthanasia or abortion are tossed onto the flames. But tempers can flare over cosmetic surgery as well. Michael Cook
Once again Dutch legislators are organising a legal work-around for a procedure which is clearly illegal in the Netherlands. This time the issue is commercial surrogacy. Michael Cook
Within the vast mansion of bioethics there is a small but very active group of purists in the basement policing the ethics of the pragmatists. The bone of contention is not philosophical but financial.
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The Church has always taught and continues to teach that the result of human procreation, from the first moment of its existence, must be guaranteed that unconditional respect which is morally due the human being.
—Gospel of Life #60
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