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Pro-Life celebrations of choice?

I thought: something uncontroversial for my first post back in a while. With GOP Chairman Michael Steele’s “outrageous” remark that abortion might be a woman’s individual choice and Palin’s gladness during the campaign that her daughter had made a decision to keep her new baby, I’ve begun to wonder how many pro-life politicians really understand [...]

Posted 13 March 2009 Adam § , , § Comments (4)

Are skin cells potential persons?

In my bioethics course, we’re in the middle of a three week tour through the issues of cloning, stem cell research, and abortion. There seem to be three important camps on the status of the embryo (or fetus as things progress, but embryos are what I’ll be concerned with here). Either it’s a person, it’s [...]

Posted 24 October 2007 Adam § , , , , § Comments (0)