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Bill Nye the "science guy" bashed pro-lifers on YouTube -- but his science on abortion is off.
Clearheaded Catholics Will Not Comply
This is no compromise at all. The only difference is that the insurance company, instead of the university (or hospital or other religious institution), will inform the employee of the ...
Debating Where Life Begins
Fertilization in humans and other mammals produces a new member of the species in the embryonic stage of its natural development. That is to say, the entity produced by the ...
Confused on Fertilization
Fertilization in humans and other mammals produces a new member of the species in the embryonic stage of its natural development. That is to say, the entity produced by the ...
The Grail Searchers
“The development of a human being begins with fertilization, a process by which the spermatozoon from the male and the oocyte from the female unite to give rise to a ...
Mission Impossible
Barack Obama and some of his supporters are trying to court the anti-abortion vote, suggesting that the candidate’s stands on other issues — such as health care, economics, and foreign ...
Silver Lining
We thank Professor Silver for his response . On the basis of this exchange, we are confident that readers will be able to judge whether Professor Silver’s claim that human ...
Fundamentalists? We?
We have in many places argued for the humanity and fundamental dignity of human beings in the embryonic stage of development and all later stages. In defending embryonic human life, ...
Human-Embryo Liberation
In a pair of highly publicized articles, the South Korean scientist Hwang Woo-Suk claimed to have produced human embryos by cloning and to have generated from them several viable stem-cell ...
Pluripotent Promises
Recently the House of Representatives voted, 238-194, to repeal President Bush’s restrictions on federal funding for embryo-destructive stem-cell research, and the Senate is expected to move on a similar bill. ...