By David Prentice, Ph.D. Editor’s note. My family and I will be on vacation through September 6. I will occasionally add new items but for the most part we will repost “the best of the best” -- the stories our readers have told us they especially liked over the last...
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Human embryos: Property or persons?
By Paul Stark On November 18 a judge ruled that a San Francisco woman's frozen embryos must be "thawed and discarded" against her wishes. The woman sought to gestate and raise the embryos, but her ex-husband, with whom she created the embryos through in vitro...
Fighting Successfully to Thwart the Drive to Commodify Human Life
By Dave Andrusko Almost exactly one month apart, two classic examples of how unrelenting resistance to the drive by the biotechnology industry and individual researchers to commodify human life can pay rich dividends. One, here at home, the other, in Europe. As we...
New patent law to impact Minnesota
No patents allowed for human embryos A ban on the issuing of U.S. patents on human embryos was enacted into law on Friday, Sept. 16, 2011.[See www.nationalrighttolifenews.org/news.] The pro-life policy was enacted as part of the “America Invents Act” bill (H.R. 1249)...