Now British Airways, its executives targeted for vandalism and threats by animal liberation extremists, is refusing to carry animals destined for use in medical labs. And nary an animal rights advocate will condemn these tactics. Such silence is coming quickly now to mean assent. Unless activists . . . . Continue Reading »
Beneath the guerilla theater and models posing naked to protest fur, there is a radical edge to the animal rights/liberation movement that is growing increasingly lawless. This column discusses. Quite tellingly, PETA has repeatedly refused to condemn such violent and lawless . . . . Continue Reading »
This columnist did his homework. The result: Clarity and . . . . Continue Reading »
Blogger Supremo, Andrew Sullivan, supports the Bush position on funding embryonic stem cell research using leftover IVF embryos. He notes that the Bush policy is truly neutral, that is, it does not legally prohibit ESCR, but also does not federally fund embryo destruction. This is true. But Bush is . . . . Continue Reading »
The International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide has just published a new report entitled, “Assisted Suicide & Death With Dignity: Past, Present & Future.” Once again, the Task Force demonstrates why it is the premier educational organization that documents the dangers of . . . . Continue Reading »
With the cloning and embryonic stem cell issues becoming hot again, NRO contacted me for a Q and A interview about my views and Consumer’s Guide to a Brave New World. Here it is in . . . . Continue Reading »
This article nails it well. Private money is amply funding embryonic stem cell research on leftover embryos. Add to these projects, $25 million in federal funding in 2003 on existing lines, plus money that will be flowing in from the states. Frankly, the money would be better spent, in my view, on . . . . Continue Reading »
This time it is liver disease. When will the media and disease groups comprehend that the best hope for the quickest regenerative treatments involve a patient’s own stem . . . . Continue Reading »
Here is my extended article on the Leslie Burke case in the UK. Lest Americans think that we are not affected by unilateral treatment cut offs, throughout the country hospitals are quietly promulgating futile care theory protocols that give ethics committees the final say on whether wanted . . . . Continue Reading »
The propaganda of Big Biotech and the Science Establishment about cloning is unremitting. They used to acknowledge the basic biological truth that cloning creates embryos. But now, to win a political debate, they claim cloning doesn’t create embryos or any form of life at all.The latest to . . . . Continue Reading »
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