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Marquis, Pruss and the Twinning Argument

March 23rd, 2009 23 Comments

Augustine writes, And therefore the following question may be very carefully inquired into and discussed by learned men, though I do not know whether it is in man’s power to resolve it: At what time the infant begins to live in the womb: whether life exists in a latent form before it manifests itself in [...]

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Some Thoughts on Human Embryonic Stem-cell Research

March 12th, 2009 51 Comments

Given Barack Obama’s reversal of the ban on federal funding for research on new lines of human embryonic stem-cells, I thought I might add my own thoughts on the issues around stem-cell research. My thoughts are somewhat tentative; largely because, unlike many in the media, I don’t see the issues as clear cut or as [...]

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