The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA): A Proposed Answer to...
On Wednesday, May 21, 2008, President Bush signed the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA). GINA prohibits employers and health insurers from discriminating against persons on the basis of...
View ArticleDrastic Reduction of Abortions in Michigan Demonstrate the Importance of...
As life-affirming laws in Michigan increase, the abortion rates in Michigan continue to plummet. Michigan state health officials announced last week that the abortion rate in the state have dropped to...
View ArticleWestern Australia Legislature Backing Adult Stem Cells
Science Alert Australia & New Zealand reports that Western Australia’s Upper House has rejected human embryonic stem cell research and human cloning. Dr. Millet, director of Curtin University of...
View ArticleCourt Finds Obama Administration Stem Cell Policy Illegal
AUL’s news release on this decision can be found here. Today, a U.S. District Court halted the Obama Administration’s illegal and unethical policy of funding research that necessarily entails the...
View ArticleYoest on Stem Cell Ruling
COURT STRIKES DOWN OBAMA ADMINISTRATION STEM CELL POLICY Washington, D.C. – (8/23/10) – Today, a U.S. District Court halted the Obama Administration’s illegal and unethical policy of funding research...
View ArticleYoest on Stem Cell Appeal
YOEST NOTES KNEE-JERK SUPPORT OF EMBRYO-DESTRUCTIVE RESEARCH COSTING TAXPAYERS MILLIONS WHILE DESTROYING LIVES WASHINGTON, D.C. – (8/31/10) – AUL President and CEO Dr. Charmaine Yoest called the...
View ArticleIn addition to healthcare reform, U.S. Supreme Court will tackle the...
The current U.S. Supreme Court session is proving to be an exciting one. In addition to granting review of healthcare reform cases today, the Court also granted review in Capato v. Astrue—a case...
View ArticleEmbryo research yields no results—or money
USA Today is reporting today that Geron—the company that received the first government approval for human clinical trials using human embryo stem cells—is discontinuing “further stem cell work.” This...
View ArticleCourt: U.S. can fund embryo research, as long as researchers kill the embryos...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit issued an opinion late last week in Sherley v. Sebelius allowing the Obama administration to continue funding destructive embryo research....
View ArticleWilliam Saunders in the National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly
William Saunders, Senior Vice President of Legal Affairs and Senior Counsel, featured in the National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly in which he gives a “Washington Insider” report of bioethical issues...
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