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Cloning Firm Is Accused of Ignoring Its Ethics Board— The Washington Post(July 14, 2001)

Company Using Cloning to Yield Stem Cells— The New York Times(July 13, 2001)

The Jones Institute for Reproductive Medicineis one of the world's foremost infertility and endocrine research centers.

ReligiousTolerance.org offers great resources on the ethical aspects of human cloningand stem cell research.

The Center for Bioethics and Human Dignityhelps individuals and organizations address the pressing bioethical challenges of our day and recently looked at the ethics of bioethics.

The American Journal of Bioethics Onlinehas plenty of resources and information including "bioethics for beginners."

Do No Harm, the Coalition of Americans for Research Ethics, is a national coalition of researchers, bioethicists, and others dedicated to the promotion of scientific research and health care which does no harm to human life.

As part of President Bush's decision to fund embryonic stem-cell research, he created a president's councilof leading scientists, doctors, ethicists, lawyers, and theologians. Dr. Leon Kass, a biomedical ethicistfrom the University of Chicago, will lead the council.

Even Miss Americawants to be a bioethicist.

Previous Christianity Todaycoverage of bioethics includes:

Two Cheers | President Bush's stem-cell decision is better than the fatal cure many sought. (August 10, 2001)

House Backs Human Cloning Ban | Scientists say they'll go ahead anyway. (August 27, 2001)

Embryos Split Prolifers | Bush decision pleases some, keeps door open for disputed research. (August 27, 2001)

House of Lords Legalizes Human Embryo Cloning | Religious leaders' protests go unheeded by lawmakers. (Feb. 2, 2001)

Britain Debates Cloning of Human Embryos | Scientists want steady stream of stem cells for "therapeutic" purposes. (Nov. 22, 2000)

Tissue of Lies? | Latest stem-cell research shows no urgent need to destroy human embryos for the cause of science. (Sept. 28, 2000)

Beyond the Impasse to What? | Stem-cell research may not need human embryos after all. But why are we researching in the first place? (Aug. 18, 2000)

Thus Spoke Superman | Troubling language frames the stem-cell debate. (June 13, 2000)

New Stem-Cell Research Guidelines Criticized | NIH guidelines skirt ethical issues about embryo destruction, charge bioethicists. (Feb. 7, 2000)

Human Embryo Research Resisted (August 9, 1999)

Editorial: The Biotech Temptation (July 12, 1999)

Embryo Research Contested (May 24, 1999)

Stop Cloning Around (April 27, 1997)

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October 1 2001, Vol. 45, No. 12