Defending the Human Embryo
A new regulation trivialises the unique nature of embryos and paves the way for an EU market in embryos.
A new regulation trivialises the unique nature of embryos and paves the way for an EU market in embryos.
Dignitas Infinita attempts to show that human dignity cannot be manipulated to promote an ideology.
Recent successes in making embryos from stem cells are ethically fraught.
The twin issues of legalised abortion and legalised euthanasia, two sides of the same coin, have proved to be the most slippery of slippery slopes and the thinnest edges of very short wedges.
The approach initiated in Casablanca is new in that it does not call for a simple framework for surrogacy, as is already the case in several countries, but for its pure and simple abolition.
What could have been a local news item has taken on the scale of a national scandal and revived a long-lasting controversy: can killing a child in the womb of its mother be considered homicide?
In a span of a few weeks, I was confronted with two distinct views on death and two distinct ways of dying. In one was the illusion of self-mastery; in the other, the radical surrender of self.
The vote followed party lines, with 210 of the 212 Democrats voting against the bill and 219 Republicans voting for it.
The defenders of human dignity are clenching their teeth at the implacable scenario unfolding before their eyes. It is written, euthanasia will pass. For the moment, the vast majority of the French political class is silent on the matter.
We should be fueled by a smart and hopeful attitude. It is no coincidence that hope is one of the three theological virtues in Christian tradition. It teaches us that however difficult our circumstances are, we must never fall into despair.
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