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Bioethics
Bioethics

Monday May 12, 2008
Debate over embryonic research at McMaster University By Catholic Insight Staff
A pro-life physician responds to claims by university officials that embryonic stem cell research does not take human life.
Issue: October 2007 | Online: Sep 21, 2007, 20:14

Organ donation: The inconvenient truth By Dr. John B. Shea, MD, FRCP(C)
Catholic Insight's medical/bioethical expert examines the latest definitions of death and how they carry the potential to prompt the harvesting of organs from still-living donors.
Issue: September 2007 | Online: Sep 11, 2007, 17:10

'Doctor, is my baby normal?' By Dr. John B. Shea, M.D., FRCP(C)
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists now advises that all pregnant women, regardless of age, should be offered the option of diagnostic testing for Down syndrome before the twentieth week of pregnancy. Here Dr. Shea responds to ACOG's new recommendation, using Catholic bioethical principles.  
Issue: Online only | Online: May 16, 2007, 00:05

Eugenics and population control in Canada By John B. Shea, M.D., FRCP(C)
A private member's bill on euthanasia, Health Canada planning to introduce pre-implantation genetic diagnosis. Dr. John Shea explans the link between these in the context of modern secular "bioethics."
Issue: March, 2006 | Online: Apr 25, 2006, 15:05

Catholics fighting AIDS By David Karanja
Our Africa correspondent, David Karanja, supplies an update on Catholic initiatives to combat the deadly disease throughout th continent.
Issue: March 2005 | Online: Mar 10, 2005, 11:00




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