Bioethics Articles
The audacity of stem cell hype
The Interim editor Paul Tuns takes a look at Obama’s recent anti-life decisions regarding embryonic stem cell research.
We should be chanting, ‘Save our sanity’
Donald DeMarco emphasizes the importance of distinguishing what is real and what is nonsense regarding the politicized issues of the day.
Church clarifies issues of IVF and frozen embryos
Editor's Note: The Interim is publishing excerpts from Dignitatis Personae: On Certain Bioethical Questions, the Vatican's new instruction on bioethics. [...]
Miracles still happen
Does God still talk to man with signs and wonders? Or did He stop communicating with his children 2,000 years [...]
‘Ethical’ stem cell discovery found to be not so ethical after all
A much-celebrated breakthrough that turns adult skin cells to embryonic-like stem cells is not the solution to the problem of [...]
Marking 25 years of research
It has spent the last quarter-century providing valuable scientific insight into life issues in Canada and, as co-founder and co-president [...]
How brave a new world?
The quotable Leon Kass Editor’s note: Leon R. Kass delivered this commencement address at St. John’s College, Annapolis, Md. on [...]
Prenatal tests pose unnecessary threat to the unborn
Many doctors have been asked the question, “Doctor, is my baby normal?” The physician replying to the above question must [...]
Science and soul
I have no problem with science as such. But I do, sometimes, have trouble with the scientists. Science has done [...]
Organ donation bill opposed
For the past year, there has been an increased push by some in the healthcare system, the media and political [...]
A positive stem cell option lies in use of amniotic fluid
Researchers at the Institute of Regenerative Medicine at Wake Forest University in Salem, N.C. have discovered a type of cell [...]
Marguerite Bourgeoys helps couples conceive ethically
When Margaret Smith discerned her calling to teach the Creighton system of natural family planning, she declared, “If, by becoming [...]
Missouri stem cell initiative really about cloning
By the narrowest of margins (51 per cent to 49 per cent) voters in Missouri passed Amendment 2, ostensibly a [...]
Embryonic stem cells risk tumours
A U.S. research team has released a report showing that embryonic stem cells injected into the brains of Parkinson’s [...]
Conservatives fumble on embryonic stem cell research
At a White House ceremony on July 19, President George Bush explained his decision to veto a bill [...]