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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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by E. Christian Brugger, Ph.D., Senior Fellow in Ethics
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 An important UN meeting is being held this week in Paris to reconsider the content of the 2005 Declaration on Human Cloning, a document described to me recently by a pro-life friend involved in its passage as an “amazing victory” for the pro-life side. I’d like to give some background on the passage and content of the document and then give my own reading of what the current meeting is up to.
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10/30/2008
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by Christian Brugger, Ph.D
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 Those from the East Coast may not know the name of Booth Gardner. But West Coast folks know it well. Gardner was a two-term Democratic Governor of Washington State between 1985 and 1993. He is also a multimillionaire heir of the Weyerhaeuser fortune, the billion dollar pulp and paper company. The 71 year old Gardner is suffering from Parkinson’s disease and has taken upon himself one last fantastic political campaign: “The biggest fight of my career,” he said in a December 2, 2007, New York Times article. The nature of the campaign? To eradicate Parkinson’s disease? To assist families struggling with chronically ill members? No. Rather, to legalize doctor-assisted self-killing in all 50 states. Gardner is the big money, celebrity endorsement and Promethean energy behind Washington State’s Initiative 1000, the assisted suicide law which residents of Washington will vote upon on November 4.
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10/15/2008
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