FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 12, 2009 CONTACT: Fr. Thomas Berg Westchester Institute for Ethics & the Human Person NY Stem Cell Board Agrees to Pay State Money for Women’s Eggs Ethicist on...
A lesson in classical vs. post-modern 'dialogue' June 2, 2009 As I noted last month, President Barack Obama is a master at concealing under many guises a strident pursuit of ...
Resolving the question of when human life begins is critical for advancing a reasoned public policy debate over abortion and human embryo research. This article considers the current scientific eviden...
The current difficult economic climate has prompted an increase in applications from women who want to provide their eggs in exchange for large payments, highlighting the ethical issue of offering co...
Human Embryo Adoption: Biotechnology, Marriage, and the Right to Life Edited by Rev. Thomas V. Berg and Edward J. Furton With a foreword by Robert P. George ISBN# ...
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A lesson in classical vs. post-modern 'dialogue'
By Father Thomas Berg
June 2, 2009
3:00 pm EST
As I noted last month, President Barack Obama is a master at concealing under many guises a strident pursuit of an aggressive anti-life agenda. He knows too that there is no easier way to grab the moral high ground in a contentious debate than by appearing to be the most reasonable of all parties concerned. On that score, the President hit a grand slam with his commencement address at Notre Dame on May 17.
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Resolving the question of when human life begins is critical for advancing a reasoned public policy debate over abortion and human embryo research. This article considers the current scientific evidence in human embryology and addresses two central questions concerning the beginning of life
Camelot and the Cultural Revolution
How the Assassination of John F. Kenney Shattered American Liberalism
By James Piereson
Encounter Books, 253 pages, 2007
James Piereson is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute where he directs the Center for the American University. He is also president of the William E. Simon Foundation. In Camelot and the Cultural Revolution, Piereson has not bequeathed us just another take on the Kennedy assassination. In fact, this unprecedented historical essay is not that at all. His analysis of what we today know about Lee Harvey Oswald, the Zappruder film, the private life of the Kennedys, the Warren Commission report—while fascinating and fresh—is hardly central to the substance of Piereson’s penetrating and innovative analysis. This book, rather, is about the unraveling of American liberalism—the great political movement that reached a high water mark with the election of JFK in 1960, riding on a wave of unprecedented successes ranging from the New Deal to the rebuilding of post-war economies in Germany and Japan.
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Press Release: NY Stem Cell Board Agrees to Pay State Money for Women’s Eggs
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In Focus: Egg "Donation"
Special Resource: Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (iPSCs)
The current difficult economic climate has prompted an increase in applications from women who want to provide their eggs in exchange for large payments, highlighting the ethical issue of offering compensation for human gametes. Women are paid several thousands of dollars for their eggs, but in the process they expose themselves to very serious, potentially fatal, health risks. In Focus takes a look at this controversial and important issue of egg donation. Please note: Inclusion of the materials below does not necessarily indicate endorsement of the views contained therein.
N.Y. to Pay for Eggs for Stem Cell Research The Washington Post 6.26.09
New York State Allows Payment for Egg Donations for Research The New York Times 6.26.09
NY Stem Cell Board Agrees to Pay State Money for Women’s Eggs Press Release
As egg donations mount, so do health concerns TIME Magazine 3.31.09 Recession spurs egg and sperm donations Boston Globe 4.7.09 Ova Time: women like up to donate eggs -- for money Wall Street Journal 12.9.08 Trading on the female body (video) The Center for Bioethics and Culture Egg donor ethics Religion and Ethics Newsweekly As demand for eggs soar, high prices stir ethical concerns New York Times 5.15.07 Ethics, eggs and embryos Newsweek 06.20.05 Egg extraction for stem cell research: issues for women’s health Center for Genetics and Society Egg donation for IVF and stem cell research: time to weigh the risk to women’s health by Judy Norsigian (DifferenTakes Issue Paper Series)
Diane Beeson testimony before the U.S. Congress on topic of egg donation
Pandemics. Global warming. Food shortages. No more fossil fuels. What are humans to do? The same thing the species has done before: evolve to meet the challenge. But this time we don’t have to rely on...
Published: June 17, 2009 at 7:00 PM SAO PAULO, June 17 (UPI) -- Brazilian scientists say human tissues normally discarded after surgical procedures could be a rich source of stem cells for regenerative...
By David Brown Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, June 22, 2009 There is a simplicity and all-inclusiveness to the number three -- the triangle, the Holy Trinity, three peas in a pod....
New York City, N.Y., Jun 17, 2009 / 05:19 pm (CNA).- Two years ago, a British couple using in vitro fertilization discovered that their frozen embryo was accidently implanted in another woman, who later...
New York has become the first and only state to opt to pay women for eggs donated for human embryonic stem cell research. The Empire State Stem Cell Board (ESSCB), which oversees New York's $600 million...
