Following President Obama's new policies on stem cells, announced March 9th, the question of embryonic research has again moved to the fore. Yet the obfuscation of this issue by politicians and journalists over the past three months has been nothing short of mind-boggling. I devote my weekly column to this darkening of the mind: On the Misappropriation of Words. A related misuse of words is covered in my recent blog entry: A Note on Terrorism and the Pro-Life Movement. Because embryonic stem cell research must be faced again, I'll deviate here from my usual policy of highlighting only new additions to our resources in order to give you a convenient list of the rich offerings CatholicCulture.org already has available. Here is a whole series of pertinent ecclesiastical statements over the past ten years:
- Arbp. Charles Chaput, Denver: In Embryonic Stem Cell Research, End Does Not Justify the Means (2001)
- Arbp. Sean O'Malley et al, Massachusetts: Statement on Human Cloning and Research on Human Embryos (2005)
- Catholic Bishops of Pennsylvania: Questions and Answers on Stem Cell Research(2005)
- Arbp. Michael Sheehan, Santa Fe: Church Believes in Cures That Don't Sacrifice Life
- Catholic Bishops of Kansas: The Exorbitant Price of Embryonic Stem Cell Research(2007)
- USCCB: On Embryonic Stem Cell Research (2008)
- Bishop Thomas Olmsted, Phoenix: What Should Science Trump? (2009, after Obama announced his policies)
- Dianne Irving, Ph.D.: Scientific and Philosophical Expertise: An Evaluation of the Arguments on 'Personhood' (1993)
- C. Ward Kischer: Cloning, Stem Cell Research and Some Historic Parallels (2002)
- E. Christian Brugger: A Primer on Stem Cells (2003)
- Todd Aglialoro: Technologies of Evil: Eight Questions About the Stem-Cell Debate (2005)
- Joan Frawley Desmond: Anti-Science? Pro-Life Dream Team Confronts Embryonic Stem-Cell Juggernaut (2006)
- Fr. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, Ph.D.: Do Embryos Have Souls? (2008)
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