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Rescue Those Condemned to Death
Proverbs 24:11-12 teaches: “Did you fail to rescue those who were being dragged off to death, those tottering, those near death, because you said, ‘We didn’t know about it’? Surely, the Searcher of hearts knows and will repay all according to their deeds.” This is the battle cry for everyone in the pro-life movement who has prayed for the courage to never abandon the little ones for any reason,...
THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN ARTIFICIAL HUMAN UTERUS
Many attacks and assaults on innocent human life continue to be perpetrated today under the guise of a possible medical treatment or “cure.” Issues of human cloning as well as human embryonic stem cell research are of paramount importance throughout the...
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...