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Bioethics
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Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
William Saletan Reviews “Embryo,” by Robert George and Christopher Tollefsen
From the New York Times Book Review earlier this month: William Saletan reviews "Embryo," by Robert George and Christopher Tollefsen, in Little Children:Thirty-five years after Roe v. Wade, the pro-life…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Student Scholarship
Dov Fox (Yale Law School) has posted Retracing Liberalism and Remaking Nature: Designer Children, Research Embryos, and Featherless Chickens on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Liberal theory seeks to achieve…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Catholic Church Supports Creating Stem Cells from Skin
Via New York Times: A Vatican prelate said the creation of stem cellsfrom skin should not pose the “ethical problems” associated with theuse of embryos. Msgr. Elio Sgreccia, head of…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
NY Times: Scientists Bypass Need for Embryo to Get Stem Cells
Gina Kolata reports for the New York Times:Two teams of scientists are reporting today that they turned human skin cells into what appear to be embryonic stem cells without having…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
George Washington Law Review Symposium: Conflicting Interests in Reproductive Autonomy
Friday, November 2, 2007George Washington University Law SchoolJacob Burns Moot Court Room, Lerner Hall2000 H Street, N.W. | Washington, DCThe registration deadline is Monday, October 29. Registered guests will be…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Italy: Abortion Blunder Rekindles Debate
Via the New York Times:A botched abortion in which a healthy twin fetus was terminated instead of its sibling with Down syndrome has reignited a fierce debate over how the…
Nano and Other Emerging Chemical Technologies Blog
President’s Council on Bioethics Will Discuss Ethical Issues Associated with Nanotechnology
On August 14, 2007, the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) published a Federal Register notice announcing the 30th meeting of the President’s Council on Bioethics. The agenda items listed…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Richard F. Storrow: “The Bioethics of Prospective Parenthood”
Richard F. Storrow, a professor at Penn State University Law School who has written extensively on assisted reproduction, has posted "The Bioethics of Prospective Parenthood: In Pursuit of the Proper…
Family Law Prof Blog
Saving Eggs from Young Cancer Patients
By Family Law
"Doctors have removed eggs from young female cancer patients and -- for the first time -- brought the eggs to maturity before freezing them, giving the girls a better chance…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Wash. Post: “Bush Moving to Bolster Stem Cell Alternatives”
Michael Fletcher and David Brown reported in yesterday's Washington Post:President Bush, under increasing pressure to relax his restrictions on embryonic stem cell research, plans to issue an executive order today…