Robert George Appointed to U.N. Commission

First Things board member (and frequent contributor) Prof. Robert P. George has just been appointed to the U.N.’s World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology (COMEST). In this capacity he will “advise the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on the ethics of its endeavors in the fields of science and technology.”

Prof. George, one of the United States’ most influential public intellectuals, has spent much of his career vigorously advancing powerful pro-life arguments in the public square, including as a member of the President’s Council on Bioethics. The pro-life cause could have no abler champion at the U.N.