Defender of Dignity
"Leon Kass, head of the President's Council on Bioethics, hopes to thwart the business-biomedical agenda"
Nigel M. de S. Cameron | posted 6/10/2002 12:00AM
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The Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity helps individuals and organizations address the pressing bioethical challenges of our day and recently looked at the ethics of bioethics .
The American Journal of Bioethics Online has 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.
Previous Christianity Today coverage of bioethics includes:
Goodbye, Dolly We need nothing less than a total ban on human cloning. (May 15, 2002)
Weblog: 'All Human Cloning Is Wrong,' Says Bush Public is 4-to-1 against all human cloning, but Senate is evenly split on comprehensive ban. (April 11, 2002)
Weblog: The Prolife Push It's 2002, time to ban cloning. (January 15, 2002)
New Coalition Rallies Against Human Cloning After Advanced Cell Technology announcement, sharp criticism comes from all sides. (December 20, 2001)
Books & Culture Corner: "Daddy, What Is the Soul?" Does the church have an answer? (December 10, 2001)
Books & Culture Corner: 'We Now Know' The boast of imperial science. (December 3, 2001)
Opinion Roundup: 'Only Cellular Life'? Christians, leaders, and bioethics watchdogs react to the announcement that human embryos have been cloned. (November 29, 2001)
Weblog: Human Cloning's 'Success' Human embryos cloned for 1st time. (November 26, 2001)
Books & Culture Corner: "24 Cow Clones, All Normal" … Oh yes, and a few cloned human embryos that died. (November 26, 2001)
The New Tyranny Biotechnology threatens to turn humanity into raw material. (Oct. 5, 2001)
Gen-Etiquette | Scientists may be mapping the genome, but it will be up to us to determine where the map will lead. (Oct. 4, 2001)
Manipulating the Linguistic Code Religious language falling into the hands of scientists can be a fearful thing. (Oct. 4, 2001)
Times Fifty Can a clone be an individual? A short story. (Oct. 2, 2001)
The Genome Doctor The director of the National Human Genome Research Institute answers questions about the morality of his work. (Oct. 1, 2001)
Wanna Buy a Bioethicist? Some corporations have discovered that bioethics makes good public relations. (Sep. 28, 2001)
A Matter of Life and Death Why shouldn't we use our embryos and genes to make our lives better? The world awaits a Christian answer. (Sep. 28, 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)
Two Cheers President Bush's stem-cell decision is better than the fatal cure many sought. (August 10, 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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