Here’s some cool news for all the photo lovers out there. Life Magazine and Google have announced that the internet company plans to scan and place all of the 10 million images in Life ‘s archives online and make them available for free. Two million images from the archive, some dating . . . . Continue Reading »
California’s Proposition 8, which defines marriage as the union between one man and one woman, is under a barrage of protest and legal scrutiny. As I mentioned earlier this week, it will likely come before the state Supreme Court, who will rule on its constitutionality. But, you might object, . . . . Continue Reading »
Comment Visions, an international on-line debate forum, asked my view on the following question: Biotechnology has been hailed as the wonder industry of the 21st Century, but are we capable of controlling it?Here is my reply:Biotechnology offers tremendous promise and peril. The peril arises, in my . . . . Continue Reading »
If you’re looking for an author who can help you argue about the origins of human life and the beginning of personhood, Maureen Condic is very good. She’s written a number of articles in First Things on the beginning of human life and stem cells ( here , here , and here , to name but . . . . Continue Reading »
Today, the BBC has some good news to report in the field of adult stem-cell research. A woman in Spain has successfully received a new windpipe after doctors coated the donated trachea with cells made from the patient’s own body: Five months on, the patient, thirty-year-old mother-of-two . . . . Continue Reading »
The philosopher Jean-Luc Marion has been elected to the Académie Française, filling the chair vacated in August 2007 by the death of Jean-Marie Cardinal Lustiger. Renowned for his scholarship on Descartes, Marion is one of the great Catholic intellectuals of our time. In its . . . . Continue Reading »
The National Kidney Foundation is apparently considering supporting a market in organs. This is a very bad idea. It is taking a public survey. If you wish to weigh in, here’s the . . . . Continue Reading »
Sickening. Just sickening. A public official in the UK who is “Labour’s czar for the elderly,” posits a duty to die by having society refuse to medically support demented patients, and denigrates them with the V-Epithet to boot. From the story: Dame Joan Bakewell says she does not . . . . Continue Reading »
Judith Graham at the Chicago Tribune reports : Babies born to couples who rely on medical technology to become pregnant have much higher rates of certain birth defects, according to a study published online Monday in the journal [ Obstetrics & Gynecology ]. The report from the federal Centers . . . . Continue Reading »
Expounding further on a theme I began yesterday: Western culture is profoundly—and I think on several important bioethical issues. implacably—split about what is right and what is wrong. These issues range from abortion, to euthanasia, to embryonic stem cell research, to removing feeding . . . . Continue Reading »
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