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Backlash hurts (Fetal Pain article)

The fact that the editor in chief, Catherine D. DeAngelis, of the Journal of the American Medical Association is receiving outraged emails is news. (And, they’re mean and hateful, too, depending on how you define “hateful” doesn’t it?) After the AMA had to reverse its stand on harvesting organs from still living anencephalic babies in … Continue reading

Prenatal Pain vs. “Nociception” Psychological Construct?

The Journal of the American Medical Association (This link is to the abstract. Subscription is required for the full article) published an article this week claiming to definitively settle the problem of whether or not children feel pain before birth. Some of you may have read that there are serious ethical questions about the authors, … Continue reading

Sure, but I wouldn’t kill anybody for it…..

Today’s American Journal of Bioethics column about Dr. Charles Krauthammer’s August 5 Washington Post column, “Cell Lines, Moral Lines,” does more than just show political bias. It looks like the anonymous editor over there has a reading skill deficit. Dr. Krauthammer opens with It is a good idea to expand federal funding of embryonic stem … Continue reading

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