On August 13, the FDA approved the use of ella as a controversial form of emergency contraceptive. The FDA stated that ella can prevent pregnancy as many as five days after sex. Studies have shown that it can decrease the chance of pregnancy by about...
Bioethics
Dr. Edward Hannigan: A Pro-Life Hero
Dr. Hannigan has inspired generations of medical students, young physicians, and patients.
Pro-Life Feminism
Few people know that the early feminist movement was staunchly Pro-Life. Ironically, many feminist groups, such as NOW, have made advocacy for abortion their priority—a goal that would have startled and disappointed the founders of the suffragist...
Embryo Experimentation and Cloning
Researchers have begun to bombard our nation and the rest of the world with questions about how far science can and should go. Scientific breakthroughs and discovery continue unfettered, and the biomedical attacks on innocent human life threaten the sanctity of...
Who Supports Human Cloning?
Return to Human Cloning Home Page Why would anyone want to create cloned human embryos? Some scientists think that stem cells extracted from cloned human embryos will be useful for the treatment of human diseases. They claim that a clone of the patient will...
Ethics and Human Cloning
Return to Human Cloning Home Page Does research on cloned human embryos cause the death of those embryos? Yes. When scientists dismember cloned human embryos by extracting their stem cells, the inner cell mass is destroyed, causing the death of the...
Policy and Human Cloning
Return to Human Cloning Home Page Does a human cloning ban prohibit in vitro fertilization (IVF) techniques? No. A ban on human cloning only prohibits the creation of cloned human embryos (through asexual reproduction). In vitro fertilization is sexual...
In Their Own Words
Return to Human Cloning Home Page Embryonic stem cell researchers comment on the challenges of using stem cells from embryos: Rarely have specific growth factors or culture conditions led to establishment of cultures containing a single cell type….[T]he...