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by E. Christian Brugger, Ph.D., Senior Fellow
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Health Care
Action Alert!
Pro-life amendment killed
- By now you have probably heard that yesterday Senator Barbara Boxer offered a motion to table (i.e., eliminate chances of voting on) the Pro-life Nelson Amendment, which would have excluded federal funding for abortion in the Senate Health Care Bill.
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12/09/2009
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by Joseph Bingham, 2009 AUL and Blackstone Fellow
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 When the National Institutes of Health (NIH) released its new
guidelines for federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research (ESCR)
on July 6, observers noted a significant change from the Institutes’
earlier proposed guidelines. Under the earlier proposals, all stem-cell
lines would have to meet certain procedural requirements to make sure
that the stem cells used were obtained ethically. Under the finalized
guidelines, stem cell-lines which have already been created with
private funding will be individually reviewed to see whether they meet
the “spirit” of the guidelines (e.g., informed consent on the
part of the original embryo donors) rather than the procedural
requirements which will be required of new lines for which funding is
sought.[1]
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08/11/2009
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by Helen Alvaré, J.D., Senior Fellow in Law
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 The headlines blared “Octomom fell fast from miracle mom to punch
line,” and “Octomom erupts.” The stories were referring to a woman,
Nadya Suleman, who had given birth to eight living babies by means of
in vitro fertilization using donor sperm. The search for the identity
of the father was not long in coming: “Man Gave Sperm 3 Times, Believes
He May Be Octuplets’ Dad” (followed by the subheading: Tune in to ABC
News’ “Good Morning America” Monday Feb. 23 to learn the identity of
the man who possibly fathered the Suleman octuplets.”) This was
followed by the response headline: “Octo-Mom: He’s Not the Dad” a story
which ended with the observations “But it looks like his 15 minutes of
fame are over before they began!” Social networking websites are
hosting “clubs” supporting or bashing Ms. Suleman, and a YouTube music
video features a Suleman impersonator spewing babies while a doctor
catches them in a baseball glove.
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02/25/2009
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by Helen M. Alvaré, J.D., Senior Fellow in Law
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Incoming President Barack Obama’s strenuous support for legal abortion is well-known. His unbridled enthusiasm for destructive embryonic stem cell research (ESCR) is likely less visible to most Americans. But President-elect Obama’s statements about ESCR throughout his campaign, and his behavior as a U.S. Senator, make him a ‘warrior” for the cause no less fierce that (now-disgraced) Senator John Edwards, who famously over-stated that if the federal government had funded ESCR all along, the late actor Christoper Reeve might have “[gotten] up out of that wheelchair and walk[ed] again.” (CNN.com. Frist Knocks Edwards for Comment on Christoper Reeves, cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS.10/12/edwards.stem.cell/, Oct. 12, 2004). Fast forward four years, and science is demonstrating, as (Dr. E. Christian Brugger wrote in his recent “Morning of the Stem Cell Revolution) that it is adult stem cell research which is providing actual patient treatments.
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01/07/2009
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by E. Christian Brugger, Ph.D., Senior Fellow in Ethics
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 Like many concerned with the welfare of vulnerable human life, the results of the Nov. 4 election have led me to question where our country is going. Do the results imply we are growing more tolerant of abortion? After three and a half decades of strenuous effort to sensitize our friends and neighbors to the ‘silent screams’ of the unborn, does the electoral outcome mean we’re losing the battle for the hearts and minds of our fellow citizens? Does electing a president as politically tolerant of killing human embryos, fetuses and newborns as Barack Obama mean our country’s moral callousness is thickening? What does the Obama victory foreshadow for the future of preborn human life in our country?
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11/12/2008
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