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LIFE DIGEST: Oklahoma lawmakers OK cloning ban
The Oklahoma legislature has unanimously approved a bill to prohibit all forms of human cloning.
The House of Representatives voted 83-0 for the measure May 15, and the Senate passed the bill with a 44-0 vote the same day, according to The Daily Oklahoman. more »
By Tom Strode - May 19, 2009
Topic: Life, Abortion, Cloning, Stem-Cell Research, Science, Bioethics
LIFE DIGEST: Abortion support declines in spite of election
Support for legal abortion fell by 8 percent among Americans in eight months’ time even as they elected a President who supports abortion rights, according to a new survey. more »
By Tom Strode - May 5, 2009
Topic: Life, Abortion, Stem-Cell Research, Science, Bioethics
LIFE DIGEST: Britain to weigh embryo creation for body parts
British couples could create embryos to establish body-repair kits for their other children and themselves, if a government agency approves the proposal this summer. more »
By Tom Strode - Apr 28, 2009
Topic: Life, Abortion, Cloning, Stem-Cell Research, Science, Bioethics
Pro-lifers: Stem cell rules step downward
The Obama administration’s draft guidelines on funding embryonic stem cell research are not as bad as they could have been, but they appear to be a step toward something much worse, pro-life leaders say. more »
By Tom Strode - Apr 21, 2009
Topic: Life, Stem-Cell Research, Citizenship, National
LIFE DIGEST: Planned Parenthood’s abortions increase by 15,000
Business is still booming for Planned Parenthood.
The country’s No. 1 abortion provider increased its count of the lethal procedures by more than 15,000 and again totaled $1 billion in revenue, according to its newly released annual report. more »
By Tom Strode - Apr 13, 2009
Topic: Life, Abortion, Stem-Cell Research, Citizenship, Church and State, Legislation, National
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