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Next: funding for creation of embryos

Posted by bnuckols ⋅ July 18, 2006 ⋅ Leave a comment

Next will come the call for the purposeful creation of funding for disease-specific embryos. These embryonic humans are not dead. They were chosen and frozen because they looked promising for future attempts to fill the empty arms of their mothers and fathers. SB 810 authorizes the use of tax money to pay to thaw, nurture, … Continue reading →

When all else fails, change the language

Posted by bnuckols ⋅ July 18, 2006 ⋅ Leave a comment

The blog.bioethics.net links to several online reports about the Bioethics and Politics conference, including LifeEthics and this one from the Scientist, covering one of the paper sessions. ( Covered by LifeEthics last week.) It seems that Missouri legislators would not vote to approve embryonic stem cell research if the bill had the word “embryo” in … Continue reading →

Endarkenment and humans

Posted by bnuckols ⋅ July 18, 2006 ⋅ 1 Comment

Wesley Smith has had a bit of time to consider and reconsider the way he was called out and singled out at lunch by Alta Chara on Friday, July 14th at the Bioethics and Politics Summer Conference of the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities. I am unabashedly human-centric and a human species-ist. Any other … Continue reading →

Ethical correctness is not extreme

Posted by bnuckols ⋅ July 18, 2006 ⋅ 1 Comment

Besides abortion, destructive embryo research, and complete sexual freedom for teens, I wonder how many other moral issues are judged, “Regardless of its ethical correctness . . .”? As it is, I wouldn’t want someone that goes around acting “regardless of ethical correctness” for my doctor or even an employee. The ethical correctness is the … Continue reading →