Part V: Resources
2. Online Information
The following websites were used in the compiling of this text and are invaluable in understanding the current situation in the Early Life Issues, ethics and biotechnology around the world.
LifeSiteNews
LifeSiteNews.com is noted for the broad range of issues it includes in the “bigger picture” of the life and family issues. It is a non-profit internet service launched in September 1997. LifeSiteNews Daily News reports are available by free online subscription. LifeSiteNews’ archives and information pages are widely used by other services and publications and by professionals and political, religious and life and family organization leaders and grassroots people across North America and internationally.
LifeSiteNews’ well organised archives cover every topic of interest to the pro-life and pro-family movement that made the news in the last ten years.
LifeSiteNews produces original sub-sections on stem cells, cloning, biotechnologies, fetal development and more. All sub-sections are updated and new ones produced as resources permit and new developments arise.
LifeSiteNews’ page of archived articles on the Early Life Issues, covering 2001-2005, can be found at
http://www.lifesite.net/features/stemcellembryo/index.html
American Bioethics Advisory Commission
A division of American Life League.
Information and articles on:
Eugenics, News, Cloning, Euthanasia, Genetics, Personhood.
The site serves as the repository of many of Dianne Irving’s articles critiquing Bioethics, cloning, legislative attempts to ban cloning and regulate the NRT as well as problems with language and terminology. The site also includes articles by philosopher Leon Kass, Lutheran theologian Gilbert Meilaender, and embryologist C. Ward Kischer, Ph.D.
The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children
http://www.spuc.org.uk/documents/papers/
The leading pro-life education and political lobby in Europe, based in London. Their “Papers on Bioethics” page includes many articles on the full range of Early Life Issues including:
- Cloning
- Parthenogenesis
- The abortifacient nature of oral contraceptives
- Stem cells
- Sex selection in IVF
- Transgenics
- Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis
Leon Kass
Leon R. Kass, M.D., Ph.D., is the Addie Clark Harding Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and the College at the University of Chicago and Hertog Fellow in Social Thought at the American Enterprise Institute. He was chairman of the President's Council on Bioethics from 2002 to 2005.
A prominent thinker and writer in bioethics. Kass does not come from an entirely pro-life point of view but his analysis of the issues is thorough and his perspective broad and unique. Kass served as Chairman of the President’s Council on Bioethics through some crucial years in terms of scientific developments in cloning and embryo research.
A number of his articles can be found at
The American Bioethics Advisory Commission site and also:
http://www.alteich.com/links/kass.htm
Concerned Women for America
Is a public policy women's organization whose “six core issues,” includes the
“Sanctity of Human Life” with an extensive library page available at:
http://www.cwfa.org/library.asp?category=life
CWA’s website includes pro-life position papers on biotechnologies, stem cell research, cloning, and artificial procreation.
Life Issues. Net
The news and article archive site edited by Fr. Jerry Novotny, O.M.I. The site features articles on a wide variety of life and family related issues by some of the leading thinkers, writers and activists in the US, Canada and Europe including:
Dr. Dianne Irving
Steven Mosher
Doug McManaman
Donald DeMarco
Fr. Thomas J. Euteneuer
Dr. John B. Shea
Nancy Valko
Mark Pickup
Wesley J. Smith
Pro-Life Training Institute
http://www.prolifetraining.com/
The organisation founded by American pro-life apologist and lecturer Scott Klusendorf who has made a life work of training pro-life people, especially the young, persuasively to make the case for the pro-life position in the public square. He contends that the pro-life message can compete in the marketplace of ideas if properly understood and properly articulated. He uses and trains others to use a powerful combination of graphic images, classical logic and rhetorical technique and accurate biological science.
A passionate and engaging speaker, Klusendorf has appeared on nationally syndicated programs like “Focus on the Family” w/ James Dobson, Billy Graham’s “Hour of Decision,” “The Bible Answer Man” w/ Hank Hanegraaff, “For Faith and Family” w/ Dr. Richard Land, "Faith Under Fire" w/ Lee Strobel," and “American Family Radio” w/ Tim Wildmon. Nationally, he’s participated in numerous debates at the collegiate and university levels. His presentation to the members of the Canadian Parliamentary Pro-life Caucus was instrumental in clarifying the issues surrounding Canada’s stem cell and cloning legislation.
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