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By John Stonestreet and Shane Morris Much of being a Christian in the modern world is urging people to see what’s really there, instead of dismissing everything as “nothing but.” Take the human embryo, for example. Abortion advocates have long labeled humans in the...
By Ann Farmer A London fertility clinic has had its operating licence suspended owing to what was modestly described as “significant concerns”. The Homerton Fertility Centre has been ordered by the UK’s government fertility regulator, the Human Fertilisation and...
By Michael Cook It’s hard to find a better case study of how experts exploit the media and democratic procedures to advance unethical agendas than the push in the United Kingdom to create “embryo banks” for scientific research. This might seem like a niche topic, but...
By Michael Cook It’s hard to find a better case study of how experts exploit the media and democratic procedures to advance unethical agendas than the push in the United Kingdom to create “embryo banks” for scientific research. This might seem like a niche topic, but...
By Cassy Fiano-Chesser A case under consideration by the Alabama Supreme Court is weighing whether or not embryos can legally be considered human beings. Law and Crime reported that a group of six plaintiffs took their case to the state Supreme Court after...
By Cassy Fiano-Chesser A case under consideration by the Alabama Supreme Court is weighing whether or not embryos can legally be considered human beings. Law and Crime reported that a group of six plaintiffs took their case to the state Supreme Court after...
By Wesley J. Smith During the great embryonic-stem-cell debate in the early 2000s, I personally witnessed scientists blatantly mislead legislators about biotech issues such as cloning, adult stem cells, and the biological nature of embryos in order to gain funding...
By Paul Stark Scientists in Oregon have successfully genetically modified human embryos, according to research published earlier this month. The researchers used a gene editing technique called CRISPR to repair a disease-causing mutation. "In altering the DNA code of...
By Michael Cook American and Korean scientists have published in Nature the details of how they successfully edited a single gene in human embryos. A team of American, Chinese and Korean scientists led by Shoukhrat Mitalipov of Oregon Health and Science University...
By David Prentice, PhD Editor’s note. The following ran May 11, 2016 and was, indeed prophetic. Just as Prof. Prentice predicted, there are loud calls to “scrap” the self-imposed “limit” on the age allowed for experiments on human embryos, currently 14 days. We read...