Tag: human life | Page 7 | Science and Culture Today

^{Type
post

Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 8, 2017

Categories
Bioethics
Life Sciences
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, embryo, embryology, fetus, human life, life, personhood, Slate}

Fetal Heartbeat Doesn’t Prove “Life”?

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 8, 2017

Bioethics, Life Sciences, Medicine

3}

Some people keep pretending that we don’t know when human life begins. Read More ›

Photo from the March for Science in San Francisco, California, on April 22, 2017.

^{Type
post

Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 3, 2017

Categories
Ethics
Political Science
Tagged
, __nedited, abortion, Alex Berezow, environmentalism, feminism, human life, March for Science, partisanship, politicization, scientism}

March for Science Gets “Hijacked” by Partisanship

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 3, 2017

Ethics, Political Science

2}

If science ever becomes conflated in the public mind with left-wing advocacy, it will profoundly harm that crucial sector. Read More ›

Statue of Lady Justice in front of the Romer in Frankfurt

^{Type
post

Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
December 9, 2016

Categories
Bioethics
Legal Science (jurisprudence)
Medicine
Reproductive Science
Tagged
, __nedited, embryos, human life, human rights, in vitro fertilization, reproductive technology, wisdom}

When Embryos Sue

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 9, 2016

Bioethics, Legal Science (jurisprudence), Medicine, Reproductive Science

4}

Here is my Solomonic take on a story illustrating the moral conundrums wrought by reproductive technologies. Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 25, 2016

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __tedited, dehumanization, discrimination, human life, infanticide, meaninglessness, pro-life, quality of life}

When "Quality of Life" Means "Not Worthy of Life"

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 25, 2016

Bioethics, Medicine

2}

There is a fight going on in the UK about whether to keep a seriously ill baby on life support or put her in palliative care to die. Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 3, 2016

Categories
Bioethics
Social Sciences
Tagged
, __tedited, "duty to kill", biological origins, culture, disabled, Ernst Haeckel, ethics, eugenics, euthanasia, forced sterilization, human life, human rights, infanticide, mercy killing, Richard Weikart, sanctity of life, scientism, Social Darwinism, society}

The Darwinian Origins of Euthanasia Advocacy

_{David Klinghoffer
June 3, 2016

Bioethics, Social Sciences

5}

Everything in ethics, every single weighty cultural issue I can think of, hinges on the question of biological origins. Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
Michael Flannery

Date
May 12, 2016

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Sociology
Tagged
, __tedited, atheism, Darwin: Portrait of a Genius, human exceptionalism, human life, Paul Johnson, Peter Singer, purpose, Richard Weikart, secular culture, self-awareness, Social Darwinism, Susan Blackmore}

Debating Weikart, Peter Singer and Susan Blackmore Omit Atheism’s Glaring Contradictions

_{Michael Flannery
May 12, 2016

Bioethics, Faith & Science, Sociology

2}

I find troubling Singer's barometer of human worth -- tied to self-awareness -- leading as it does to dangerous nonsense. Read More ›

Successful result of artificial insemination of a woman. Miracle of Modern Medicine: IVF. Little human baby inside mother womb. Small embryo in uterus.

^{Type
post

Author
Michael Egnor

Date
December 27, 2010

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Technology
Tagged
, __nedited, abortion, assisted suicide, chemotherapy, conception, double-effect, embryo, euthanasia, fertilization, human life, in vitro fertilization, medical ethics, miscarriages, moral reasoning}

In Which I Answer Tantalus Prime’s Queries About Abortion

_{Michael Egnor
December 27, 2010

Bioethics, Medicine, Technology

7}

Tantalus Prime is a graduate student in neuroscience. He’s been following my debate about abortion with Joshua Rosenau of the NCSE. He asks some questions about my views on the right to life that are worth answering. Tantulus: Egnor asserts that humanity is a discrete, not a continuous variable. If so, then would he kindly point to the exact point at which the human begins? After all, fertilization itself is a multi-step process. So, where is it? When the sperm breaches the oocyte membrane? Formation of the pro-nuclei? Initial DNA replication? Degeneration of the pro-nuclei membrane? Formation of the mitotic spindle? Fusion of the chromosomes? Division of the chromosomes and formation of the first daughter cells? This really should be Read More ›