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Ethicists: Obama misrepresented his own stem cell order during press conference
Pro-life ethicists have challenged President Obama’s March 24 description of his recent executive order involving destructive stem cell research. more »
By Tom Strode - Mar 26, 2009
Topic: Life, Stem-Cell Research, Citizenship, National, Science, Bioethics
Some states buck embryonic stem cell trend
NASHVILLE, Tenn.—President Obama may have opened the floodgates for federal funding of embryonic stem cell research, but a handful of state legislatures are trying to carve a different path in what some are calling the latest front in the nation’s culture wars. more »
By Michael Foust - Mar 25, 2009
Topic: Life, Stem-Cell Research
LIFE DIGEST: Protests greet Obama speech at Notre Dame
Notre Dame University’s announcement President Obama will speak and receive an honorary doctor of laws degree at its May 17 commencement has elicited an outpouring of criticism from pro-life Roman Catholics. more »
By Tom Strode - Mar 24, 2009
Topic: Family, Abuse, Child Abuse, Life, Abortion, End-of-Life Issues, Stem-Cell Research, Suicide, Citizenship, National
Ban on embryo destruction funds renewed for time-being
WASHINGTON—President Obama renewed a ban on federal funding of research that harms human embryos only two days after issuing an executive order that lifted a prohibition on government grants for destructive embryonic stem cell research. more »
By staff - Mar 18, 2009
Topic: Life, Stem-Cell Research
LIFE DIGEST: Pro-life Dems protest stem cell order
The country’s leading pro-life organization for Democrats was on the outside looking in when it came to President Obama’s revocation of a ban on federal funds for stem cell research that destroys human embryos. more »
By Tom Strode - Mar 16, 2009
Topic: Life, Abortion, Stem-Cell Research, Science, Bioethics
Obama order also nixed ethical stem cell grants left over from Bush administration
Largely overlooked in President Obama’s March 9 order lifting a ban on federal funds for stem cell research that destroys human embryos was his revocation of a policy promoting grants for ethical experiments. more »
By Tom Strode - Mar 12, 2009
Topic: Life, Stem-Cell Research, Citizenship, National, Science, Bioethics
Critics: Stem cell order unethical & unnecessary
President Obama overturned March 9 a prohibition on federal funding of stem cell research that destroys embryos, drawing protests from supporters of the previous policy who said his action is both unethical and unnecessary. more »
By Tom Strode - Mar 10, 2009
Topic: Life, Stem-Cell Research, Science, Bioethics
Land: Obama’s order ‘attempt to remove morality from scientific research’
NASHVILLE, Tenn.—Southern Baptist ethics leader Richard Land decried President Barack Obama’s March 9 executive order overturning the prohibition on federal funding of embryonic stem cell research (ESCR). more »
Mar 9, 2009
Topic: Life, Cloning, Stem-Cell Research
Stem cell breakthrough could make ethical debate moot
WASHINGTON—A bill that would drastically expand federal funding for embryonic stem cell research has been re-introduced in the Senate, but British and Canadian researchers announced a scientific breakthrough March 2 that could change the course of stem cell research and eventually make the ethical debate moot. more »
By Michael Foust - Mar 3, 2009
Topic: Life, Stem-Cell Research
Obama administration moves to rescind protections for pro-life health-care workers
WASHINGTON—Siding once again with abortion rights advocates, the Obama administration took the first step Feb. 27 toward unraveling Bush administration regulations meant to protect health-care workers from being forced to take part in abortions and other medical procedures to which they morally object. more »
By Michael Foust - Mar 2, 2009 - (2)
Topic: Life, Abortion, Birth Control, Stem-Cell Research