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An Ethicist on Who Owns Your Body

Posted by bnuckols ⋅ October 12, 2006 ⋅ Leave a comment

For a look at the thinking behind the debate, work your way through Alta Charo’s essay and/or the audio interview in the New England Journal of Medicine. (free, online) (She’s the one who called Wesley Smith on his “human-centric” views and the rest of us in the right wing and pro-life community on our “endarkenment” … Continue reading →

>More on challenge to WARF patent (on human beings)

Posted by bnuckols ⋅ October 12, 2006 ⋅ Leave a comment

>Okay, the patent being challenged is on the products of the destruction of human beings – embryonic stem cells. The Scientist has an article by Cathy Tran outlining the objections to the patents. If nothing else, these objections put a lie to the argument that embryonic stem cells were only discovered in 1998, so we … Continue reading →

More on challenge to WARF patent (on human beings)

Posted by bnuckols ⋅ October 12, 2006 ⋅ Leave a comment

Okay, the patent being challenged is on the products of the destruction of human beings – embryonic stem cells. The Scientist has an article by Cathy Tran outlining the objections to the patents. If nothing else, these objections put a lie to the argument that embryonic stem cells were only discovered in 1998, so we … Continue reading →

Frankenbunnies, non-brain dead organ donation, cloning, and PVS guinea pigs

Posted by bnuckols ⋅ October 12, 2006 ⋅ Leave a comment

Isn’t it amazing how many of the most controversial news and public policy issues revolve around bioethics and medicine? I’ve noted before that all of the controversies (like those mentioned above, from the days surrounding the weekend of October 8-9, 2006) are actually only one: which humans will receive society’s protection of the inalienable right … Continue reading →