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LIFE DIGEST: U.S. aid helps abortion advocacy in Kenya
The United States government is providing $23 million to aid Kenya in its referendum on a new constitution, and some of that funding has been used to promote passage of a document that would liberalize the African country’s abortion policy, the leading pro-life advocate in Congress said July 16. more »
By Tom Strode - Jul 20, 2010
Topic: Life, Abortion, End-of-Life Issues, Citizenship, Legislation, Science, Bioethics, Issues, ,
LIFE DIGEST: IVF increasingly ‘a crass consumer activity’
An Australian mother of three boys plans to travel to Thailand to select the sex of her next child to assure she has a girl.
The Melbourne woman, 36, and her husband, whose identities have not been disclosed, will spend more than $15,000 to make certain female embryos are implanted in her womb at a Bangkok fertility clinic, according to the Herald Sun, a Melbourne newspaper. more »
By Tom Strode - Jul 13, 2010
Topic: Life, Abortion, Infertility, Citizenship, , Healthcare, Science, Bioethics,
LIFE DIGEST: Abortion ‘lesser evil,’ feminist says
Antonia Senior is a feminist who believes life begins at conception. The reporter for The Times of London also believes killing an unborn child is a matter of choosing “the lesser evil.” more »
By Tom Strode - Jul 6, 2010
Topic: Life, Abortion, Citizenship, , Science, Bioethics,
LIFE DIGEST: Adult stem cells restore vision
Adult stem cells have restored sight to more than three-fourths of patients blinded by chemical burns to their sight, according to a new research study. more »
By Tom Strode - Jun 29, 2010
Topic: Life, Abortion, Infertility, Stem-Cell Research, Science, Bioethics,
LIFE DIGEST: Scientologists pushed abortions, women say
Female workers in the Church of Scientology have been coerced into having abortions, the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times reported recently.
In a two-part expose, the Times reported more than a dozen women told the newspaper that supervisors in the Sea Organization — Scientology’s 6,000-member, military-like order that runs the religious cult’s international operations — pressured them or other women to abort their unborn children. more »
By Tom Strode - Jun 22, 2010
Topic: Life, Abortion, Citizenship, Healthcare, Science, Bioethics,
People ‘being killed for their organs’?
A dangerous precedent was set in Belgium, an ethicist said, when a woman chose assisted suicide and then opted to donate her organs.
Wesley Smith, a bioethics fellow at the Discovery Institute, said agreeing to harvest organs from euthanasia “raises the very realistic prospect that despairing people with terminal illnesses or disabilities (or perhaps, just despair) could latch onto being killed for their organs as a way of bringing meaning to their lives.” more »
By staff - Jun 9, 2010
Topic: Life, End-of-Life Issues, Science, Bioethics,
LIFE DIGEST: Poll shows diverse response on life issues
A new Gallup poll reports the American public takes various stands on the moral acceptability of life issues.
The survey released May 26 showed the following opinions: more »
By Tom Strode - Jun 8, 2010
Topic: Life, Abortion, Cloning, End-of-Life Issues, Stem-Cell Research,
Retail genetic test called ‘bad idea’
Retail sale of an over-the-counter genetic test set to begin this month at thousands of American drug stores is “a bad idea in every way,” a Southern Baptist bioethicist says. more »
By Tom Strode - May 12, 2010
Topic: Life, Science, Bioethics,
LIFE DIGEST: Baby aborted for cleft lip survives 2 days
A baby who survived for nearly two days before dying in an Italian hospital was aborted only because he had a cleft lip and palate.
Scans of the boy, who was at 22 weeks gestation, had shown he had the conditions, which may be corrected by surgery, and his mother chose to abort him in a hospital in her hometown of Rossano in southern Italy, the Telegraph reported. more »
By Tom Strode - May 4, 2010 - (1)
Topic: Family, Addictions, Substance Abuse, Life, Abortion, Infertility, Science, Bioethics,
LIFE DIGEST: Washington’s suicide report mirrors Oregon’s
Washington appears to be following in the steps of Oregon, based on the first annual report since physician-assisted suicide became legal in the state. more »
By Tom Strode - Mar 9, 2010
Topic: Life, Abortion, Birth Control, Suicide, Citizenship, , Science, Bioethics,