Category Archives: Obama on Embryo Destructive Research
Barnard: The Embryo Troubles of Obama’s Top Doctor
Prof. Justin Barnard (associate professor of philosophy and director of the Carl F.H. Henry Institute for Intellectual Discipleship at Union University in Jackson, Tennessee) reflects on Public Discourse on the fact that many are pointing to Obama’s pick of an Evangelical to head the National Institutes of Health as a sign of the president’s willingness [...]
May 28: C-Span Live Stream of Robert George and Douglas Kmiec Exchange
C-SPAN will be covering the moderated discussion between Professor Robert P. George (Princeton University) and Professor Douglas Kmiec (Pepperdine Law School) to take place at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. The discussion with focus on “The Obama Administration and the Sanctity of Human Life: Is There a Common Ground on Life Issues? What [...]
The Corner (NRO): Yuval Levin on the NIH Stem Cell Rules
The original post on The Corner (NRO) by Yuval Levin can be found here – Editor
Stem Cell Rules by Yuval Levin, Ethics and Public Policy Center
When President Obama announced his new embryonic stem cell funding policy last month, he left it to the NIH to set the rules, giving them no clear guidelines or ethical [...]
Moral Accountability in South Bend
Matthew J. Franck, Radford University
The genesis of MoralAccountability.com, as you can see from our mission statement, lay in the disturbing phenomenon, in the 2008 presidential campaign, of self-proclaimed “pro-life” Catholics, Evangelical Protestants, and others declaring their support for the candidacy of Barack Obama. The signers of that statement set forth as one of our goals [...]
Robert P. George on Statement by Members of the President’s Council on Bioethics
Robert P. George, Princeton University
I commend the statement published by several of my colleagues on the President’s Council on Bioethics concerning federal funding of embryo-destructive research. I share with them the conviction that each and every member of the human family, irrespective not only of race, sex, and ethnicity, but also irrespective of age, [...]
An Open Letter to President Obama’s Pro-Life Supporters
Friends:
We share with you a commitment to the profound, inherent, and equal dignity of every member of the human family. It is for this reason that we oppose abortion, embryo-destructive research, euthanasia, and every other form of direct killing of innocent human beings. We believe that these practices are grave injustices that no society should [...]
Democrats for Life, Obama and Stem-Cells
In the aftermath of President Obama’s executive order on the funding of stem-cell research and human cloning, Democrats for Life of America published the following statement:
“Democrats For Life of America disagreed with the Mexico City Policy reversal but had an opportunity to air our concerns with representatives of the Administration. But the announcement that President Obama [...]
Robert P. George and Douglas Kmiec: Is Obama Anti-Cloning?
In the aftermath of President Obama’s executive order on funding embryonic stem-cell research, Robert P. George (Princeton University) and Douglas Kmiec (Pepperdine Law School) corresponded via email regarding President Obama’s position on human cloning and Kmiec’s statements on this position in an interview with Dan Gilgoff. This exchange has been reproduced in 5 parts by [...]
Web Briefing: Obama and Embryonic Stem Cells
Weekly Standard: Perpetuating a Needless Stem Cell War – Ryan Anderson
Wall Street Journal: The President Politicizes Stem-Cell Research – Robert P. George and Eric Cohen
NRO: Obama’s False Choice – Yuval Levin
Obama’s Embryo Destruction Extremism: Time for Obama’s Pro-Life Supporters to Face the Facts
By Yuval Levin, Ethics and Public Policy Center
Amidst the fawning press coverage of President Obama’s overturning of the Bush stem cell funding policy, it is important to understand a few basic facts about what he has and has not done.