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Gene Shopping? - Dallas Morning News
Dallas Morning News
David Brooks: America’s new pastime: gene shopping
About 40 percent say they’d use genetic engineering to upgrade their offspring
08:26 AM CDT on Saturday, June 16, 2007
At this very moment thousands of people are surfing the Web looking for genetic material so their children will be nothing like me. They are looking through files at sperm bank sites with Jetson-like names such as Xytex, which have become the new eBays for offspring.
Jun 18, 2007
Topic: Family, Children, Parenting, Life, Science, Bioethics
USAToday: Court takes harder stance on abortion
Analysis by Joan Biskupic, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court’s abortion ruling Wednesday revealed the new court’s approach to one of the most difficult social issues and was a reminder of its rightward turn since the addition of Bush appointee Samuel Alito.
The 5-4 decision, reinstating a ban on the procedure opponents call “partial-birth abortion,” departed from past rulings by giving legislatures more latitude to restrict abortion, particularly when there is debate among physicians over the safety of a procedure. The decision will make it harder for abortion rights advocates to challenge new restrictions on abortion.
Apr 25, 2007
Topic: Life, Abortion, Citizenship, Legislation, National, Science, Bioethics
Supreme Court Upholds Partial-Brith Abortion Ban
The Supreme Court upheld the nationwide ban on a controversial abortion procedure Wednesday, handing abortion opponents the long-awaited victory they expected from a more conservative bench.
The 5-4 ruling said the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act that Congress passed and President Bush signed into law in 2003 does not violate a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion.
Apr 18, 2007
Topic: Life, Abortion, Citizenship, Legislation, National
Giuliani Reaffirms That He Would Not Seek Abortion Changes
Rudolph W. Giuliani, campaigning in South Carolina, firmly stated that as president he would not seek to make abortion illegal. Aware of the damage his position might do to him among some conservative voters, Mr. Giuliani said that if someone was inclined to vote against him solely because of his stance on abortion, then so be it.
Apr 10, 2007
Topic: Life, Abortion, Citizenship, National
Believing Scripture but Playing by Science’s Rules
There is nothing much unusual about the 197-page dissertation Marcus R. Ross submitted in December to complete his doctoral degree in geosciences here at the University of Rhode Island. His subject was the abundance and spread of mosasaurs, marine reptiles that, as he wrote, vanished at the end of the Cretaceous era about 65 million years ago. But Dr. Ross is hardly a conventional paleontologist. He is a “young earth creationist” — he believes that the Bible is a literally true account of the creation of the universe, and that the earth is at most 10,000 years old.
Feb 12, 2007
Topic: Science, Creation/Evolution
Defend innocent life
By Sam Brownback January 22, 2007 Each January from all corners of the nation, hundreds of thousands descend upon the nation’s capital. They come — often in freezing conditions — for a most significant march on Washington. They come for the March for Life on the anniversary of the tragic Supreme Court decisions in Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton that made abortion legal during all nine months of pregnancy.Jan 24, 2007
Topic: Family, Children, Elderly, Life, Abortion, Citizenship, National, Social Issues
RADIO - Global Warming
Dr. Barrett Duke Guests hosts Richard Land Live! on Saturday January 6, 2007
Updated Jan 24, 2007 to point to the FFF version of the broadcast.
Jan 6, 2007
Topic: Family, Sexual Purity, Homosexuality, Life, Cloning, Stem-Cell Research, Citizenship, Christian Citizenship, Human Rights, Legislation, War, Science, Bioethics, Environment
The Roberts Court Takes on Abortion
The arguments the Supreme Court will hear on Wednesday on the constitutionality of the federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act promise much more than a resumption of a familiar debate over a method of terminating a pregnancy.
Nov 6, 2006
Topic: Life, Abortion, Citizenship, National
Court: Groups Must Offer Contraceptives
New York’s highest court ruled Thursday that social service agencies run by the Roman Catholic Church and other faiths must provide birth-control coverage to their employees, even if they consider contraception a sin.
Oct 23, 2006
Topic: Faith, Family, Life, Citizenship, Legislation, Religious Liberty
Misleading measure may launch U.S. cloning
A new video available on YouTube marks a late attempt by pro-life forces to avert serious defeat in Missouri Nov. 7, with national implications. Cathy Ruse, speaking for Missourians Against Human Cloning, declares: “Amendment 2 is a fraud. It is an attempt to trick Missourians into approving — in their Constitution — human cloning, the right of biotech firms to do human cloning in Missouri — something Missourians oppose by an overwhelming majority.”
Oct 20, 2006