>Naaman the Ex-Leper has a great post today. It’s too good to excerpt. You can read it here.
I just finished two terms on the President’s National Advisory Committee on Violence Against Women (NACVAW)(we were against VAW). So, a friend asked me what I thought about Eagle Forum founder,Phyllis Schlafly’s, latest column on Townhall concerning the Violence Against Women Act. (Not surprisingly)I had a few thoughts: I know the law is focused more … Continue reading
>I just finished two terms on the President’s National Advisory Committee on Violence Against Women (NACVAW)(we were against VAW). So, a friend asked me what I thought about Eagle Forum founder,Phyllis Schlafly’s, latest column on Townhall concerning the Violence Against Women Act. (Not surprisingly)I had a few thoughts: I know the law is focused more … Continue reading
The good news is that phone calls and emails from Texas voters created enough fuss and bother in Austin last week that lobbyists from the UT system joined our efforts to successfully convince the House and the Senate to remove the proposed $41 million bond issue for a biomedical technology center at the UT Houston. … Continue reading
>The good news is that phone calls and emails from Texas voters created enough fuss and bother in Austin last week that lobbyists from the UT system joined our efforts to successfully convince the House and the Senate to remove the proposed $41 million bond issue for a biomedical technology center at the UT Houston. … Continue reading
Here’s the one and only report I’ve been able to find covering the revelation that more oocytes or “eggs” were used in the laboratory procedures under Korean veterinarian and dog cloner Hwang Woo Suk’s supervision. The records in that lab were partially destroyed just aboutthe time that the scandal broke in December. In fact, the … Continue reading
>Here’s the one and only report I’ve been able to find covering the revelation that more oocytes or “eggs” were used in the laboratory procedures under Korean veterinarian and dog cloner Hwang Woo Suk’s supervision. The records in that lab were partially destroyed just aboutthe time that the scandal broke in December. In fact, the … Continue reading
Peter Singer, from Salon.com: Salon: How does the ethicist put a price on the impulse of a chicken to spread its wings? Singer: We recognize the chicken as another conscious being. It’s different from us, but it has a life, and if something is really important for that chicken, if it would work hard to … Continue reading
>Peter Singer, from Salon.com: Salon: How does the ethicist put a price on the impulse of a chicken to spread its wings? Singer: We recognize the chicken as another conscious being. It’s different from us, but it has a life, and if something is really important for that chicken, if it would work hard to … Continue reading
News from the United Kingdom tells us about a woman (and her partner) who desired a child although the prospective mother has a genetic disease, hereditary retinoblastoma. Embryos were created by in vitro fertilization (IVF), tested for the gene that causes hereditary retinoblastoma, and only those which were without the trait were implanted. I haven’t … Continue reading