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by Willam E. May, Ph.D, Senior Research Fellow
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 The August, 2011 issue of Catholic Medical Quarterly, the journal of the
Catholic Medical Association of the United Kingdom, begins with an
article “Jerome Lejeune: A Doctor for All Seasons.” His example in
witnessing to the sanctity of human life from its inception until death
was remarkable. Reflecting on it can be of value to all in the pro-life
movement, particularly if some basic principles of medical ethics that
he proposed are not only kept in mind but carried out in practice. The
CMQ’s brief article is well done; hence this piece will basically be a
summary of it, implemented by a brief description of Lejeune’s role in a
famous court case in Tennessee toward the end of the 1980’s.
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08/11/2011
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by William E. May, Ph.D., Senior Fellow
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 Introduction
Bioethics in the
United States is dominated by secularists who reject religious faith, which
they believe is a remnant of a superstitious age that has no place in the public
square. This is the position taken by such influential writers as Peter Singer,
Daniel Callahan, Arthur Caplan, Ronald Green and many others, by scores of
bioethics centers at think tanks such as the Hastings Center (founded by
Callahan and Willard Gaylin, M.D.), and centers at prestigious universities. In addition, many well-known and influential
Catholic bioethicists repudiate their own Church’s teaching and for it
substitute in large measure the “received wisdom” common to secularist
bioethicists and institutions, among them Daniel Maguire, Thomas Shannon, James
Walters, and others.
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01/18/2011
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by E. Christian Brugger, Ph.D., Senior Fellow in Ethics
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 Think of it. A country on the verge of a Depression; its most powerful
financial institutions crumbling; the whole world in the grip of
uncertainty; millions unemployed; foreclosures too numerous to count; …
and the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives defends
spending enormous taxpayer sums on contraception: ‘it will save
millions;’ ‘help rescue states from bankruptcy;’ ‘protect women;’
‘reduce the number of pesky children.’
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02/12/2009
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by Joseph Tham, MD, Ph.D
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 For many people, bioethics is a big word that speaks of heated controversies about cloning, stem cell research or end of life issues. These debates appear to pit the religious against the secular, and the conservatives against the liberal establishment. While there is some truth to that, it is a little known fact that bioethics has a humble origin with roots that are religious. The story of how bioethics turned its back on its former allegiance is all the more pressing since this knowledge can shed some light on the current controversies.
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03/07/2008
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by Christian Brugger, Ph.D
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 "I’m talking about embryo destructive experimentation. The imminent danger is not that scientists will begin to create and destroy human embryos. That’s been going on for a long time, as had abortion in the U.S. before 1973... The problem is rather the institutionalization of the creation of human life for destructive purposes funded by the federal government."
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01/18/2008
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by Robert. P. George, Ph.D.
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Princeton Professor and Culture of Life Board Member Robert George speaks to the National Catholic Register shedding light and perspective on the milestones of 2007, in "The Year of the Embryo".
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01/07/2008
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