Articles on this issue "eugenics"
Today's World Down Syndrome Day is now in its second year of recognition by the United Nations. A statement on the Day from UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon affirms that discrimination …
read moreScientific investigation should grow and advance, but with an ethical conscience, especially in the area of genetics, says the president of the Pontifical Academy for Life. Archbishop Rino …
read moreThough many Down syndrome children are being denied their right to live, the discovery of the chromosome that causes their illness should still be considered a victory, says a genetics …
read moreThe quest for a perfect child is leading to the increasing use of techniques to discover possible health problems in the unborn. Normally this is not done with a view to healing, and results …
read moreHere is a text prepared by Friars Minor Father Hyacinth Ennis for a videoconference of theologians Sept. 27 on bioethics. The Congregation for Clergy organized the event. The text was adapted …
read moreA growing demand for \"perfect children\" is leading to the elimination of unborn babies with health problems. The Globe and Mail newspaper reported Oct. 28 that the number of children born …
read moreA growing demand for \"perfect children\" is leading to the elimination of unborn babies with health problems. The Globe and Mail newspaper reported Oct. 28 that the number of children born …
read moreAlthough a complex ideology underlies the Nazi anti-Semitism that led to the Holocaust, many historians point to the eugenic theories that were widespread in the 1930s and 1940s. In the book …
read moreThe vulnerability of human life was driven home this past week with two important commemorations. In Poland, Thursday's 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp brought …
read moreThe vulnerability of human life was driven home this past week with two important commemorations. In Poland, Thursday's 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp brought …
read moreThe distance between the Dutch and Nazi practices of euthanasia has disappeared with the Netherlands' recent decision to allow infants and newborns to be put to death, warns a bioethicist. Dr. …
read moreThe decision by Britain's Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority to allow for the creation of embryonic children to provide therapeutic tissue for an older sibling is "deeply flawed," …
read moreThe decision by the Brazilian federal Supreme Court to allow the abortion of anencephalic fetuses -- those missing part or all of the brain -- could lead to even worse developments, warns a …
read morePublic authorities in several American states have apologized for the forced sterilization programs that left thousands unable to have children. In the decades following World War I, many …
read moreRaelian sect founder Claude Vorilhon expressed delight over the recent publicity his group has received and admitted that reports of human cloning might be false. The announcements of cloned …
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