Cloning
Western Australia Legislature Backing Adult Stem Cells
Friday, May 30th, 2008Science Alert Australia & New Zealand reports that Western Australia’s Upper House has rejected human embryonic stem cell research and human cloning.
Dr. Millet, director of Curtin University of Technology’s Centre for Applied Ethics and Philosophy explains why.
“The whole debate has changed, and it’s changed dramatically since the Yamanaka discovery because, while both his method and [...]
Drastic Reduction of Abortions in Michigan Demonstrate the Importance of Incremental Protections
Thursday, May 29th, 2008As life-affirming laws in Michigan increase, the abortion rates in Michigan continue to plummet. Michigan state health officials announced last week that the abortion rate in the state have dropped to a record low since record-keeping began in 1979. The current abortion rate shows a 50% drop since the peak in 1987, and a 3.7% [...]
The Presidential Candidates on Life Issues
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008I’ve just discovered that our friends at bioethics.com have posted summaries of the candidates’ documented positions on stem cell research, cloning, human embryo research, abortion, and health care.
Democrat
Hillary Clinton
Barack Obama
Republican
John McCain
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The 2008 Presidential Election
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008As the 2008 Presidential Election approaches, we find ourselves struggling to determine which presidential candidate will best serve our country and hold fast to the principles and values we hold dear. One factor of increasing importance in this determination is a candidate’s position on abortion and life issues. How important is it for the pro-life [...]
Nebraska Joins Handful of States that Prohibit State Funding of Human Cloning
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008On Tuesday, Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman signed into law LB 606, which prohibits the state funding of human cloning for any purpose.
Significantly, this bill prohibits the funding of both cloning-to-produce-children, as well as cloning-for-biomedical-research. Unfortunately, many states ban and/or prohibit funding only for cloning-to-produce-children, meaning that researchers can utilize cloning and create embryos without limit, [...]
Required Reading: Health Policy Interview
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008Discover has published an interview with Leon Kass, the former chair of the President’s Council on Bioethics, that is far ranging in its discussion of health policy issues. Touching on ethics, technological innovation, end of life issues, reproduction issues, stem cell research, therapy vs. enhancement, access to healthcare, and civic engagement, the interview is well [...]
Schedule for AUL Legal Institute Announced. Save the Dates June 23-26, 2008
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
AUL Legal Institute — June 23-26, 2008
Preliminary Schedule (subject to change)
Registration Coming Soon
Monday, June 23
9:00 — 9:15 am
Welcome
Daniel McConchie, M.A., Vice President & Executive Director, Americans United for Life
9:15 — 10:30 am
Abortion: The Ultimate Abuser of Women
TBD
10:45 — 12:00 pm
RU486 and the Coming Chemical Abortion Revolution
TBD
12:15 — 1:15 pm
Lunch with morning speaker (TBD)
1:30 — 3:00 [...]
The Embryo Conversation Continues
Friday, February 22nd, 2008Over the past couple of weeks a fascinating back-and-forth has been going on between the authors of Embryo: A Defense of Human Life, Robert P. George and Christopher Tollefsen, and Slate.com bioethics reporter William Saletan (see here).
The latest entry, by George and Tollefsen was posted today at National Review Online. It’s well worth your time.
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Required Reading: Banning Human Cloning, the Why and How
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008Leon Kass, former Chair of The President’s Council on Bioethics, writes in the Weekly Standard on why it is time to ban human cloning, and how to go about doing it.
Despite the president’s numerous calls for action, we remain the only major nation in the high-tech world that cannot summon itself to ban human cloning, [...]
Embryo Reviewed
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008Sunday’s New York Times Book Review carried a review of Embryo: A Defense of Human Life. The reviewer, Slate.com’s bioethics writer/reporter William Saletan, is someone that I generally respect as a thoughtful writer, even though I don’t always agree with him. His review of Embryo, though, is an unusually poor showing.
In response to the review, [...]
British Lab Creates Three-Parent Embryos
Tuesday, February 5th, 2008“It is human beings they are experimenting with,” says Countess Josephine Quintavalle, founder of Comment on Reproductive Ethics, regarding the creation of 3-parent embryos by scientists at Newcastle University, England.
The new technique amounts to human cloning, using an embryo as a source of DNA.
Newcastle scientists created 10 embryos using the DNA of 3 parents – [...]
Press Release: Advances in Stem Cell Research Lauded; Need to Ban Human Cloning Remains
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007Chicago, Illinois – November 20: A pair of scientific papers released today report that scientists in the United States and Japan have succeeded in producing powerful stem cells by “direct reprogramming” of skin cells.
The stem cells produced by direct reprogramming are believed to have the same power that embryonic stem cells possess, that is, the [...]
MO Cloning Battle Heats Up Again
Friday, October 12th, 2007Cathy Ruse of Family Research Council weighs in at NRO on the latest in the battle over cloning in Missouri: Missouri Manipulation — Don’t get conned on cloning.
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2007 State Legislative Sessions in Review
Friday, August 31st, 2007Just posted at AUL.org, our review of the 2007 state legislative sessions.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Overall Trends andAnalysis
Abortion
Amendments to General Abortion Statutes
Abortion Bans/Constitutional Amendments
Abortion Clinic Regulations
Clinic Access/FACE
Coerced Abortions
Crisis Pregnancy Centers
Freedom of Choice Act/FOCA
Informed Consent/Women’s Right to Know
Insurance Coverage
Legislative Declarations
Parental Involvement
Provider Requirements/Limitations
Public Funding for Abortion
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New Initiative in Missouri
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007A coalition of concerned Missouri citizens, doctors, and academics yesterday launched the “Cures Without Cloning” (CWC) initiative to prohibit human cloning in Missouri.
Cures Without Cloning seeks to:
Prohibit human cloning.
Continue to search for cures and treatments using ethical stem cell research.
Prohibit tax-payer money from being used for human cloning experiments.
Press release announcing launch
Home of Cures without [...]
