Critical Mass

To give you some “headline news” this Monday morning on embryos — just to keep you thinking…. :) Please, pray for them!
What Should We Do with the Frozen Embryos?
Fr. Tad Pacholczyk wrote this great article in The Boston Pilot. In summary, he states that there is not a clear moral resolution to [...]

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From an excerpt of a University of Michigan press release talking of the Embryonic Stem Cell Research Consortium:
In addition to deriving new embryonic stem cell lines, researchers will use recently developed techniques to convert adult skin cells into induced pluripotent stem cells, known as iPS cells. These reprogrammed cells display the most scientifically valuable properties [...]

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Wednesday, February 25, 2008
Following 7:00 pm Ash Wednesday Mass
Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, Ph.D.
Director of Education, The National Catholic Bioethics Center
Fr. Tad is a priest of the diocese of Fall River, Massachusetts. As an undergraduate he earned degrees in philosophy, biochemistry, molecular cell biology, and chemistry, and did [...]

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Courtesy of “The Clone Age: Adventures in the New World of Reproductive Technology” by Lori B. Andrews:
After Jonathan Slack cloned headless frogs, other researchers suggested cloning headless humans to serve as organ donors. They argued that, with no brain, such creatures would not be considered persons under the law.
I just had to stop [...]

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OH boy!  I snatched up this book from the library, and even in the prologue I found something so utterly horrifying, that I just had to stop reading to let you know:
From “The Clone Age,” by Lori B. Andrews, page 7:  “Is it the wrong time for a pregnancy, but you want to freeze the [...]

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