Breaking NewsPope: Human Life Is A Gift, Not A Product
Benedict XVI is urging bishops to educate Christian consciences so that people can appreciate human life as a gift of God and not just a commercial product. Marital Discord
The Religious Freedom and Civil Marriage Equality Amendment of 2009 would legalize same-sex marriage in the District. It would not require any religious organizations to carry out such marriages. But the church worries that it would have to offer health benefits to same-sex spouses of employees and facilitate adoptions by same-sex couples, both of which it says would violate its religious beliefs. My Near Death Panel Experienc
Comment: This article is a good example of setting up a straw man to make a point or win an argument. The section on Medicare was not the only point about "death panels." The cutting of Medicare funds, scheme to penalize the top 10% of top-spending Medicare doctors, establishment of government panels, admission of advocacy, the writings of ethicists like Dr. Emmanuel, etc., taken with the push for advance directives (now, ironically, for everyone in the new Pelosi bill), are cause for serious and valid concerns. -Nancy Valko, RN Human Life International And Breast Cancer
Human Life International recently held a press conference at Hotel del Rio. There, Dr. Rene Josef Bullecer, who specializes in infectious diseases and a proponent of Human Life International in the Philippines, presented a finding by the World Health Organization that oral contraceptives can cause cancer to humans and that 599,000 deaths yearly are due to breast cancer. Ohio Plans Execution Method Untried On Prisoners
Ohio waded into uncharted territory Friday when it announced plans to switch from the usual three-drug cocktail used to execute inmates to a one-drug method that death penalty opponents praised as a step forward — albeit one that has apparently never been tried on prisoners. If The Embryo Is Human, It Is A Person: Vatican Doctrine Official
If an embryo is human, it is a person - this is the golden rule for bioethics if it wants to uphold the full dignity of the human person, said the secretary of the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) on Tuesday. Spanish Bishop Says Catholic Politicians Who Vote For Abortion Excommunicate Themselves
The secretary general of the Spanish bishops' conference, Auxiliary Bishop Juan Antonio Martinez Camino of Madrid, warned that Spanish Catholic legislators who vote in favor of a bill to liberalize abortion which is currently before parliament would publicly place themselves in an "objective state of sin" and therefore may not receive Communion. Members Of Congress Claim Back Alley Abortions Will Happen Without Tax Funds
To hear pro-abortion members of Congress tell the story last weekend, women will head to the back alleys to have abortions unless they can get taxpayer funding for their abortions. Those were the unfounded claims presented during the House debate on the Stupak amendment. More Headlines…
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Ethical Perspectives Helen Alvare
Counterintuitive as it seems, a possible means of helping to curb our nonmarital pregnancy rates is to "put the baby back into sex." It is a means of helping men and women view each other as gifts - not instruments, not enemies, not subordinates - and a way of putting first things first - the well-being of children before our own selfish impulses.
Carolyn Moynihan
British family researchers seem to be working overtime to keep up with trends that have won the UK the label, Breakdown Britain. A new report from the relationship support organisation One Plus One reviews the evidence on the effects of marital or partnership breakdown on the wellbeing of both adults and children. It finds a definite negative impact and argues that better interventions to support parents could prevent some family ruptures. Michael Cook
Current studies show that 92 percent of women who receive a definitive prenatal diagnosis of Down Syndrome choose to terminate their pregnancies. As a consequence Down Syndrome children are vanishing. In Ireland, where abortion is not an option, the sight of a DS person on the street is far more common.
Marcella Colbert
The cost of Death and Dying is the unstated factor. With a greatly increased elderly population and relatively few to care for them, the cost of staying alive is becoming prohibitive. Let us not forget, contraception and abortion are the two most common medical interventions. The killing is going on because the medical profession agrees to it. The profession is clearly accepting euthanasia, only this time it will be done without any change in the law. Debi Vinnedge
In November 2007, two scientists Dr. Shinya Yamanaka and Dr. James Thomson published their studies describing a new stem cell technique that produced embryonic-like stem cells by simply reprogramming adult skin cells.1 Immediately, several bioethicists and pro-life leaders touted the iPS - or "induced pluripotent stem" cells to be an ethical alternative to embryonic stem cell research and human cloning. For if one could produce embryonic stem cells without destroying innocent human beings that would end the ethics debates once and for all. Or would it? Anthony Zimmerman
We ask: Did John really have doubts, or did he ask the question with tongue in cheek, to give Jesus an opportunity to correct the false ideas of John's own disciples? This is a quizzical passage that gave the celebrated greats among the Fathers of the Church to rise to great heights or rhetoric. Dianne N. Irving
The purpose of this paper is simply to provide historical confirmation of what bioethics is, who the Founders, theorists and practitioners are, identify just some of the major issues addressed (particularly those concerning research using human embryos and fetuses), and touch on some of the more salient inherent problems of and concerns about this "theory".
Jeremiah R. Grosse
In this morning’s first reading from the Acts of the Apostles we hear about the call of a man who would have a profound impact on the history of Christianity. It is this same man who was mentioned earlier in Acts as the one at whose feet the people threw their cloaks as they prepared to stone Stephen to death. “And they placed their cloaks at the feet of the young man named Saul.”
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