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Democrats Fail to Stop Filibuster Against DISCLOSE Act Pro-Life Groups Oppose

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Democrats failed on Tuesday to get enough votes to stop a Republican filibuster against the DISCLOSE Act. That's the campaign finance reform bill pro-life groups oppose because they say it would place stringent limits on their ability to communicate to the public about legislation and elections. more >>

Congressman Tells Hearing on MDGs Abortion Doesn't Lower Maternal Mortality

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A prominent congressman who monitors international issues told a hearing today in the nation's capital that, as international observers monitor attaining the Millennium Development Goals, they need to remember that abortion does not lower maternal mortality for women. more >>

Pro-Life Champion Chris Smith to Get Wilberforce Award From Students for Life

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Congressman Chris Smith, who has led the pro-life battles in the House of Representatives for decades, will receive the Wilberforce Leadership Award on Thursday from Students for Life of America. The award will be presented at SFLA's third annual Summer Social in Washington. more >>

Small Steps To Justice: Review of Clark Forsythes Politics for the Greatest Good

In the beginning of the book Forsythe discusses the philosophy of prudence. more >>

Kansas Board May Discipline Late-term Abortion Associate of George Tiller

Topeka, KS (LifeNews.com) -- The Kansas State Board of Healing Arts has filed an eleven-count recommendation that late-term abortion practitioner Ann Kristin Neuhaus be disciplined. Neuhaus allegedly violated the Healing Arts Act concerning abortion referrals she made to late abortion practitioner George Tiller. more >>

University of Alabama-Birmingham Arrests Pro-Life Advocates Protesting Abortion

Birmingham, AL (LifeNews.com) -- Officials at the University of Alabama-Birmingham are coming under fire for arresting pro-life young adults hoping to share the pro-life perspective with students on campus. Members of the pro-life group Survivors returned to the streets of Birmingham last Thursday to participate in a series of pro-life events. more >>

Stem Cell Research & Bioethics

The Catholic Church's teaching on bio/medical ethics originates in the Christian teaching of the inherent dignity of the human person. Current advances in science and technology offer new hope for the eradication or alleviation of symptoms of many serious diseases. While encouraging authentic research in these areas, the Catholic Church is also careful to offer criterion for moral judgment in scientific research and technology, particularly in the area of the beginning of human life.

Additional Links & Resources

Donum vitae The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith's 1987 document Donum vitae, Instruction on Respect for Human Life in Its Origin and on the Dignity of Procreation: Replies to Certain Question of the Day

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Begotten not Made: A Catholic View of Reproductive Technology - by John Haas, PhD, STL

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Center for Bio ethics and Culture The Center for Bio ethics and Culture (CBC) is composed of Doctors,Nurses, Ethicists, Clergy, Educators, and other professionals coming together to educate and equip people in the bio ethics issues of the 21st Century, a century already christened "the Biotech Century."

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Center for Bio ethics and Human Dignity: To advance the development of medical treatments and therapies that do not require the destruction of human life, including the human embryo.

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National Catholic Bio ethics Center - A great resource for any bio ethical questions. They also publish a monthly newsletter.

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Stem-Cell Research
On Human Embryos and Stem Cell Research: An Appeal for Legally and Ethically Responsible Science and Public Policy - by the Center for Bio ethics and Human Dignity Declaration on the Production and the Scientific and Therapeutic use of Human Embryonic Stem Cells

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"Emergency Contraception"
Pontifical Academy for Life document - The Polycarp Research Institute To promote and perform research that seeks to improve the physical, psychological and spiritual condition of mankind. These include: Breast cancer and abortion, breast cancer and oral contraceptives, post fertilization effect of emergency contraception and oral contraception.

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Cloning
The National Committee for a Human Life Amendment: Human cloning is a form of asexual reproduction. It is done by taking genetic material from a person's body cell, injecting it into an egg whose nucleus has been removed or inactivated, and then stimulating the egg to begin embryonic development. Genetically the cloned embryo is virtually identical to the person whose cell was used. Some would use cloning to produce infants as copies of living or deceased people ("reproductive cloning"), while others would use cloning to mass-produce human embryos to be destroyed as raw material for experimentation (so-called "experimental cloning").

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Genetics
Observations on the Universal Declaration on the Human Genome and Human Rights
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