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January 2021

January 17, 2021

Scientific Errors Lead to Moral Errors Re: Vaccines (3/3 on Fr. Ripperger)

This is the third and final post on Fr. Ripperger and vaccines in his podcast...

January 07, 2021

Requiring Genetic Tests Violates Fundamental Human Rights

This is an old article of mine about genetic privacy from 2017. You can note...

December 2020

December 16, 2020

USCCB: Getting a COVID-19 Vaccine Is “An Act of Charity”

On Monday, the USCCB released a statement on the ethics of COVID vaccines. It noted...

August 2020

August 01, 2020

Genetic Screening Might Kill Disabled Babies

Yes, you read that right. Most of you have probably heard about genetic testing on...

July 2020

July 11, 2020

Good News: First State DNA Privacy Law

As I might have mentioned before, I'm currently writing a doctoral thesis on the Catholic...

April 2020

April 08, 2020

Pope Francis Condemns Eugenic Abortion, Again

Reading one paragraph of Pope Francis's interview with Austen Ivereigh today, I was reminded of...

February 2020

February 06, 2020

Pew: Americans Abandon Genetic Privacy by a 3:2 Margin

Genetic privacy is one of the key moral issues in the public sphere over the...

November 2019

November 22, 2019

Pennsylvania Politicians Divided Over Aborting the Disabled

In the past few days, it has been reported that the Pennsylvania House and Senate...

October 2019

October 22, 2019

Rewriting Our Genes? Prime Editing Doesn’t Resolve Moral Issues

This week, a new variation of CRISPR called "Prime Editing" has come into the spotlight....

September 2019

September 18, 2019

Resolving Body Dysmorphic Disorder with Hormones?

This week, Australian scientists made an interesting discovery in treating a tough medical condition. The...

August 2019

August 22, 2019

The Ethics of Sperm-Sorting to Get Male Babies

Scientists have created a gel that changes the speed of sperm. It slows down sperm...

August 14, 2019

The Privacy Concerns Over Recent DNA Criminal Cases

A string of recent cold cases have been solved by DNA. However, these cases are...

June 2019

June 15, 2019

The Confusing Changing Results from DNA Ancestry Tests

As I've noted before, companies like 23andMe or AncestryDNA use probability not precise science to...

May 2019

May 28, 2019

New Chinese Law Makes Embryonic DNA-Editing Illegal

The world got a lot closer to preventing genetically edited babies, at least for the...

May 23, 2019

Bioethics Must Outpace Technology

Today, technology is moving at a fast rate. Things that were science fiction 20 years...

March 2019

March 22, 2019

Arguments Against a Germ-Line Editing Moratorium Fail

Last week it came out that many scientists want a 5-year moratorium on gene-line editing....

March 14, 2019

Diabetes Testing by 23andMe: Pros and Cons

23andMe recently added an option to test for your probability of getting diabetes. (Type-2 diabetes...

March 01, 2019

Anonymous Sperm Donors and Genetic Testing: A Moral Conundrum

IVF has always been an issue for Catholic morality. New DNA tests that help find...

December 2018

December 13, 2018

Designer Babies Are Here: Let’s Not Kid Ourselves

This week, A Cecile JW Janssens, a professor of Epidemiology at Emory University, tried to argue that...

November 2018

November 26, 2018

UPDATED x2: Moral & Practical Problems with the 1st Gene-Edited Babies

Early this morning, there was a shocking announcement out of China. They performed gene editing...

November 21, 2018

New Tests Allow “Screening” of Low-IQ Babies

A new company called Genomics Prediction now claims to be able to test IVF babies...

November 17, 2018

Changes in Embryo Research May Lead to More Ethical Vaccines

Several vaccines, currently used in the USA, are grown or prepared using unethical means. These vaccines...

September 2018

September 25, 2018

Insulin: Why Is There Rationing? How Can We Solve It?

I've seen a few recent stories about rationing of insulin by diabetics. This worries me as...

July 2018

July 18, 2018

UK Bioethics Group Approves Genetic Engineering Babies: What’s Wrong With That?

In the UK, the most prestigious bioethics body has just green-lighted the genetic engineering of...

June 2018

June 16, 2018

Pope Francis Condemns Eugenic Abortions

Pope Francis has condemned the practice of Eugenic abortions in no uncertain terms. Doctors and...

June 07, 2018

Three-Parent Babies: A New Moral Issue

NPR has a report from inside a clinic making a three-parent baby. In a clinic...

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