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Prosecute or Absolve?
By Judie Brown In Matthew 9:12-13 Jesus set the tone for His mercy, which is coveted by anyone who understands the meaning of offending God. When the Pharisees saw Christ dining with tax collectors and sinners and asked why He was doing so, Christ said, “Those who are well do not need a physician, but the sick do. Go and learn the meaning of the words, ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’” This...
ABAC responds to Clonaid’s cloned baby claim
“Cloning is not only an immoral act that sacrifices innocent human life for a so-called scientific gain, it is Frankenstein-ish science at its worst and should be outlawed immediately,” said Fr. Joseph Howard, director of the American Bioethics Advisory...
Extinct Species: Dinosaurs and Catholic Health Care
Recent events have pointed out a very frightening scenario in the Catholic health care arena. I suspect that Catholic health care, as envisioned by those who first established it in America, has come to an untimely end.
The Moral Status of the Human Embryo according to Peter Singer: Individuality, Humanity, and Personhood
Peter Singer is a prominent Australian philosopher currently at Princeton University who many might consider to hold radical views on human life. Singer argues that the early human embryo is not a human individual who is a person. He contends that the...
Recycling Babies: The Practice of Fetal Tissue Research
HISTORY The use of fetal tissue for the purposes of biomedical research dates back to the late 1920’s. As Mary Carrington Coutts explains, “As early as 1928 unsuccessful attempts were made to transplant fetal pancreas cells into diabetics (VII, Fichera...
Ethical issues in the disposition of frozen embryos by divorcing couples
Dr. Eugene is a member, American Bioethics Advisory Commission When the “right to privacy” was discovered in the “shadows” of the Constitution’s meaning (Griswold v. Connecticut) and the “right to abortion” was discovered in...
Academic fraud and conceptual transfer in bioethics: Abortion, human embryo research and psychiatric research
DeSales School of TheologyWashington, D.C. Published in Joseph W. Koterski (ed.), Proceedings of the Conference: Life and Learning IV (New York: Fordham University Press, 1995, pp. 193-215 ” … there has emerged a phenomenon unknown to antiquity that...