Last month the NIH released proposed rules to use taxpayer dollars to fund certain human-animal chimera research. The rule would lift the current prohibition of any federal funding of biomedical projects that inject human stem cells into mammal embryos or brains....
Bioethics
Pro-Life Students Attend Summer Training
In May and June, Texas Right to Life welcomed two classes of Dr. Joseph Graham Fellows to Houston for an intense week of Pro-Life apologetics, bioethics, and leadership training. Twenty-two second-year Fellows, representing 14 Texas universities, took part in their...
Scientists experiment by creating animal embryos and adding human DNA
Ethicists across the board are apprehensive about a new form of experimentation in which human DNA is manipulated in ways that could potentially result in part-animal, part-human embryos, or (further down the line), animals birthing fully human babies. The...
British health officials want to use disabled babies to harvest organs for transplant
At first glance, a new undertaking by British health crusaders may seem innocuous – or even a sign that the country is abandoning long-held anti-Life views. The British Transplantation Society has suggested that parents of babies diagnosed prenatally with a condition...
REPORT: Texas Right to Life confirms anti-Life embryonic stem cell research supported by Texas taxpayers
Austin, Texas- February 18, 2016: Texas Right to Life confirmed that Texas taxpayers are footing part of the bill for embryo-destroying research in state-funded facilities. This information comes directly from the National Institutes of Health, an agency of the...
Is voting Pro-Life really necessary?
Every election cycle, interest groups across the spectrum make recommendations about which candidates they believe will best work to achieve certain policy ends in elected office. The Pro-Life community is no different. Each primary election season, the Texas...
Raney among rogue Republicans who voted to fund embryo-destroying research
The Pro-Life movement recognizes that all innocent human Life, from the moment of fertilization until natural death, is immensely valuable and deserves the utmost respect and protection. Therefore, Texas Right to Life fully vets candidates on a wide range of...
Chris Dunn´s was not a singular case of injustice in Texas
During the tragic plight of the late Chris Dunn, who died at Houston Methodist Hospital two days before Christmas, many who heard his story were shocked by the callous nature of Chris’s treatment by the hospital. They regarded Chris as an anomaly...