October 26, 2006
They just keep doing it, but they can’t get away with it any more. The AP, byline Jim Salter, has a story about Michael J. Fox’s deceptive partisan ads and Rush Limbaugh’s speculation that the actor went off his Parkinson’s … Read More
October 25, 2006
Kathryn Lopez, over at NRO, has an excellent column on the human egg issue as it relates to cloning and the exploitation of women. The piece leads off with a quote from my good friend Jennifer Lahl, a mover and … Read More
October 25, 2006
The old Hemlock Society was batty, but at least it was truthful–in its name (after a poison) and its goals; the right to choose the time, manner, and method of death. Hemlock has changed its name and put on a … Read More
October 25, 2006
We often hear the “choice” word thrown about in assisted suicide advocacy. But there is another “C-word” that needs more discussion: Context. Assisted suicide in the USA would be implemented amidst profound inequalities regarding access to quality care. This story … Read More
October 24, 2006
Except he doesn’t. In this story, he says his pills are working well, for which we are all glad. He definitely doesn’t say whether or not he stopped taking his medication before shooting the deceptive ads. A doctor says his … Read More
October 24, 2006
PETA and Cancer Research Center for Consumer Freedom, an industry supported non profit, has this truthful ad up that skewers the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) for impeding cancer and other medical research. The fact is we … Read More
October 24, 2006
“Sure” support for Amendment 2, which would legalize human cloning in Missouri, has dropped below 50% for the first time. In a Survey USA poll, sure support is down in less than 2 weeks from 57% to 45%. Sure no … Read More
October 24, 2006
Well, it seems pretty clear to me now that Fox did not take his medications so as to appear more “sympathetic” in his deceptive television ads about human cloning and embryonic stem cell research. He has used this strategy before. … Read More
October 24, 2006
Response Ad to Michael J. Fox Don’t be bought, don’t be fooled,” actor Jim Caviezel, St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Jeff Suppan, and other celebrities warn Missouri voters, as they explain why voters in MO should reject Amendment 2.
October 24, 2006
It appears that Michael J. Fox went off his medications before shooting his deceptive ads against Senator Jim Talent and other politicians. I don’t think this is deceptive in that Fox wasn’t faking his symptoms, only showing how he would … Read More
October 24, 2006
So, disgraced charlatan, would-be human cloner Hwang Wu-suk, who burned through more than 2000 eggs (some unethically procured), resulting in no cloned embryos or cloned embryonic stem cell lines, and who lied cruelly to the world before justly crashing and … Read More
October 23, 2006
NJ, the state that has a law permitting human cloned fetal farming to the very point of birth, look like it will devote hundreds of millions to stem cell research–not all embryonic. Given that California will be pouring in $3 … Read More
October 23, 2006
I am completely cool with health care workers being warned to be on the lookout for suicide ideation among their cancer patients. When I was a hospice volunteer, I was trained similarly. I was told in no uncertain terms that … Read More
October 22, 2006
Stanford bioethicist, William Hurlbut, Princeton professor Robert P. George, and stem cell scientist Markus Grompe, have published a defense of ANT in the Hastings Center Report. (No link available.) It is a cogent essay, beyond my capacity to reproduce here. … Read More
October 22, 2006
Michael J. Fox Michael J. Fox doesn’t tell the truth about Senator Talent in this ad. Talent does not want to outlaw stem cell research. Rather, he does not support Missouri’s Amendment 2, which would create a constitutional right in … Read More
October 22, 2006
The importance of accepting the intrinsic value of human life cuts across almost every major bioethical issue facing society today. In this San Francisco Chronicle column, I describe how our most vulnerable brothers and sisters–those diagnosed as being in a … Read More
October 21, 2006
Let us pull back for a moment and ponder the embryonic stem cell debate. What has it been over as a matter of government regulation? Not whether it could be done legally. There are no federal efforts to outlaw ESCR. … Read More
October 19, 2006
The hubris and arrogance of Missouri’s Amendment 2 crowd apparently knows no limits. Having poured around $20 million into their campaign to convince Missouri voters they are outlawing human cloning when they are actually trying to create a constitutional amendment … Read More
October 19, 2006
This story out of the UK speaks volumes about how devalued the lives of disabled people are becoming. Gillian March had progressive multiple sclerosis, a very difficult disease that not only leads to increased disability, but often depression. She decided … Read More
October 19, 2006
I bring this very hopeful story up, not so much because of its substance, although it is a very hopeful apparent breakthrough. Rather, I want to illustrate an important point: In all of the brouhaha over cloning and embryonic stem … Read More
October 19, 2006
In order to win the raging political debate over human cloning, political-scientists have determined that they should stop using the “C-word,” cloning, to describe their agenda and replace it with somatic cell nuclear transfer. This is the mendacious tactic used … Read More
October 19, 2006
Here is an ad against Missouri’s mendacious Amendment 2: a measure that is “too slick, too deceptive, too tricky.”
October 18, 2006
The UK euthanasia group “Dignity in Dying” worries that “the religious right is on the march.” Reporting on the Toronto World Federation of Right to Die Societies Convention in its Autumn 2006 newsletter, we learn that my name apparently came … Read More
October 18, 2006
Missouri voters are being treated to what may be the most expensive initiative campaign in the state’s history–almost all from out the wallet of one man, financier James Stowers. There is no question that Stowers has done some wonderful things … Read More
October 18, 2006
I tried to post this demagogic ad in support of ESCR directly, but YouTube wouldn’t upload. So, I you will have to hit the link to see it unless and until the condition is corrected. The ad represents everything people … Read More
