Free for Me, But Not for Thee?

It’s amazing how unpopular freedom of choice has become among groups that invoke the phrase at every opportunity.
Pro-abortion organizations have long said they oppose legal protection for unborn children because it would infringe on women’s freedom to make their… Read More

People Without Conscience

One apparent result of the November elections is that, even before the end of Congress’s 2004 session, long-awaited federal protection for pro-life health professionals was enacted into law. The Hyde-Weldon Conscience Protection Amendment was approved as part of Congress’s final… Read More

Reason Failing on Stem Cells

Who knew that the fiercest political debate of 2004 would be over embryonic stem cells? Various reasons have been offered for this. The death of former President Ronald Reagan from Alzheimer’s disease prompted some of his own family members to… Read More

Human Dignity in the “Vegetative” State

On Christmas Eve, 1999, the family of Patricia White Bull in Albuquerque, New Mexico received an unexpected gift. After 16 years in a supposedly irreversible “vegetative state,” Mrs. White Bull began to speak.
“Don't do that,” she blurted out when… Read More

Ban Farming of Humans

“Farming” fetuses for body parts. Human/animal hybrids. Putting unborn humans in animal wombs. Buying and selling human embryos. Patenting human beings. Chapter headings for a science-fiction potboiler? No. Just a typical day at the office for members of the President’s… Read More

American Muddled Association

You may have seen the headline: “American Medical Association endorses cloning for research purposes.” And you may have wondered: What new medical evidence has driven the nation’s largest medical organization to this?
The answer is: None at all. Researchers remain… Read More

Ban Human Cloning

(This article courtesy of the Arlington Catholic Herald.)
This is the bill that was overwhelmingly approved by the House of Representatives last summer. It bans any use of cloning to manufacture human embryos in the laboratory.
Two competing bills have… Read More

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