Bad Ethics, Bad Economics
Posted by Tom McFeely
Tuesday, June 23, 2009 2:00 PM
In moving to disband his predecessor George W. Bush’s Council of Bioethics, President Barack Obama has taken another step towards moral deregulation of the biological research industry.
That Obama plans to move in this direction was already made clear when he repealed Bush’s ban on the federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research that involves destruction of human lives in their earliest... READ MORE
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The Dignity of the Embryo
Posted by Tom McFeely
Friday, December 12, 2008 2:27 PM
(Wikipedia)
Archbishop Salvatore Fisichella spoke today in Rome with Register correspondent Edward Pentin about Dignitas Personae, the Vatican’s new bioethics document.
Archbishop Fisichella, who is president of the Pontifical Academy for Life, discussed some of the U.S. implications of the new document, and the focus it places on the dignity of the human embryo. Here’s what he told the Register:
How... READ MORE
Filed under archbishop fisichella, bioethics, dignitas personae
Bioethics Document Released
Posted by Tom McFeely
Friday, December 12, 2008 12:53 PM
Illustration of early-stage embryo. (CNS)
Here’s what Cardinal Francis George of Chicago said about Dignitas Personae, the new Vatican instruction on bioethics released today:
“We welcome the Instruction as theologians, medical personnel, researchers and married couples consider new scientific and medical procedures that have profound ethical implications bearing upon the procreation of children and the integrity of marriage,”... READ MORE
Filed under bioethics, cardinal george, congregation for the doctrine of the faith, dignitas personae, u.s. bishops
Vatican Bioethics Document
Posted by Tom McFeely
Monday, December 01, 2008 1:08 PM
“It’s what you’d expect, mostly a reiteration. We’re happy with it, but of course the world’s going to hate it.”
That’s what a Vatican official told Register correspondent Edward Pentin about the new Vatican instruction on bioethics that will be released Dec. 12.
The Vatican official was predicting the likely reaction of much of the secular world to the upcoming document from... READ MORE
Filed under benedict xvi, bioethics, cardinal levada, vatican
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