http://www.alliancealert.org news from the frontlines of the culture war Thu, 24 May 2012 23:12:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/31/mississippi%e2%80%99s-ambiguous-%e2%80%98personhood%e2%80%99-amendment-nytimes/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/31/mississippi%e2%80%99s-ambiguous-%e2%80%98personhood%e2%80%99-amendment-nytimes/#comments Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:52:45 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=117362 NYTimes.com: ON Nov. 8, Mississippi voters will be asked to decide on a proposed amendment to the state constitution, which would define as a person “every human being from the moment of fertilization, cloning, or the functional equivalent thereof.” ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/31/mississippi%e2%80%99s-ambiguous-%e2%80%98personhood%e2%80%99-amendment-nytimes/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/20/greenpeace-was-behind-eu-lawsuit-seeking-to-patent-embryos/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/20/greenpeace-was-behind-eu-lawsuit-seeking-to-patent-embryos/#comments Thu, 20 Oct 2011 17:42:02 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=116515 LifeNews.com: You may or may not have heard that recently a European Union court has ruled that the extraction of embryonic stem cells cannot be patented because it destroys a human embryo. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/20/greenpeace-was-behind-eu-lawsuit-seeking-to-patent-embryos/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/18/faq-how-does-reproductive-cloning-work-livescience/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/18/faq-how-does-reproductive-cloning-work-livescience/#comments Tue, 18 Oct 2011 13:11:40 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=116177 LiveScience: A team of South Korean scientists led by the Hwang Woo-suk – who made headlines in 2005 for falsely claiming to have extracted stem cells from cloned human embryos – has just announced that they have successfully cloned coyotes for the first time. Here are some answers to a few questions you may have about reproductive cloning. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/18/faq-how-does-reproductive-cloning-work-livescience/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/05/washington-post-scientists-report-possibly-crucial-advance-in-human-embryonic-stem-cell-research/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/05/washington-post-scientists-report-possibly-crucial-advance-in-human-embryonic-stem-cell-research/#comments Wed, 05 Oct 2011 13:48:46 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=115484 ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/05/washington-post-scientists-report-possibly-crucial-advance-in-human-embryonic-stem-cell-research/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/09/28/abortion-foes-criticize-gop-allies-for-failing-to-uphold-cloning-ban/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/09/28/abortion-foes-criticize-gop-allies-for-failing-to-uphold-cloning-ban/#comments Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:40:46 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=114848 Minnesota Public Radio News (includes audio): Angered that a 2009 ban on spending state funds on human cloning was dropped from state spending bills during final budget hearings, the state's largest anti-abortion group is targeting some of its traditional allies. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/09/28/abortion-foes-criticize-gop-allies-for-failing-to-uphold-cloning-ban/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/08/26/what-cloning-advocates-dont-say-about-human-cloning/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/08/26/what-cloning-advocates-dont-say-about-human-cloning/#comments Fri, 26 Aug 2011 16:32:47 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=111949 LifeNews.com: So SCNT in animals: egg + somatic nucleus = cloned embryo. Got it. But for humans: egg + somatic nucleus = formless group of cells that is smaller than the cross-section of a human hair. Don’t got it. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/08/26/what-cloning-advocates-dont-say-about-human-cloning/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/07/22/minnesota-now-paying-scientists-to-engage-in-human-cloning/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/07/22/minnesota-now-paying-scientists-to-engage-in-human-cloning/#comments Fri, 22 Jul 2011 12:41:11 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=108812 LifeNews.com: The state of Minnesota is now paying scientists to engage in the grisly practice of human cloning. After the state legislature failed to re-authorize a ban on state funded human cloning during the special session, it is now legal to use taxpayer dollars to create cloned human embryos. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/07/22/minnesota-now-paying-scientists-to-engage-in-human-cloning/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/07/06/minnesota-pro-life-group-worried-taxpayers-must-fund-cloning/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/07/06/minnesota-pro-life-group-worried-taxpayers-must-fund-cloning/#comments Wed, 06 Jul 2011 09:12:07 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=107597 LifeNews.com: ublic funding of human cloning became legal on in Minnesota on July 1 without reauthorization of the state’s current ban on such funding. Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life helped to pass the ban on taxpayer funding of human cloning during the 2009 legislative session. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/07/06/minnesota-pro-life-group-worried-taxpayers-must-fund-cloning/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/05/09/missouri-pro-lifers-worried-about-tax-funded-human-cloning/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/05/09/missouri-pro-lifers-worried-about-tax-funded-human-cloning/#comments Mon, 09 May 2011 22:08:38 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=103173 LifeNews: A Missouri pro-life group is concerned taxpayers may be on the hook for funding human cloning or embryonic stem cell research and its wants state legislators to do something about it. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/05/09/missouri-pro-lifers-worried-about-tax-funded-human-cloning/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/03/22/does-the-minnesota-medical-association-support-human-cloning/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/03/22/does-the-minnesota-medical-association-support-human-cloning/#comments Tue, 22 Mar 2011 16:15:03 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=98768 LifeNews: So, does the Minnesota Medical Association support the idea of gestating human clones to birth? That’s what their press release a few days ago suggested. But their 2010 policy book states that while MMA supports cloning human embryos for experiments, MMA opposes gestating cloned human embryos to birth (see item 560.13).  So which is it? ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/03/22/does-the-minnesota-medical-association-support-human-cloning/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/03/15/bill-would-ban-human-cloning-in-minnesota/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/03/15/bill-would-ban-human-cloning-in-minnesota/#comments Tue, 15 Mar 2011 14:11:09 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=98000 CBS: "The bill’s first stop is Tuesday in the Senate Committee on Health and Human Services. A similar measure awaits a House hearing." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/03/15/bill-would-ban-human-cloning-in-minnesota/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/03/10/minn-lawmaker-wants-to-make-human-cloning-a-felony/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/03/10/minn-lawmaker-wants-to-make-human-cloning-a-felony/#comments Thu, 10 Mar 2011 20:46:17 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=97714 KARE11.com: Cloning humans would become a felony in Minnesota, if a new bill becomes law. In fact, the bill introduced Wednesday night by Rep. Bob Dettmer, R-Forest Lake, would make assisting with such a lab procedure a serious crime. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/03/10/minn-lawmaker-wants-to-make-human-cloning-a-felony/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/12/14/human-cloning-an-%e2%80%98imminent-threat%e2%80%99-scientist/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/12/14/human-cloning-an-%e2%80%98imminent-threat%e2%80%99-scientist/#comments Tue, 14 Dec 2010 17:04:24 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=86441 LifeSiteNews: "The obsession with pluripotent stem cells dominating America’s medical research is not only hindering the progress of far more cost-effective stem cell therapies, but flinging the country headlong toward human reproductive cloning, warns one biotechnology expert." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/12/14/human-cloning-an-%e2%80%98imminent-threat%e2%80%99-scientist/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/11/04/law-review-am-i-my-son-human-clones-and-the-modern-family/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/11/04/law-review-am-i-my-son-human-clones-and-the-modern-family/#comments Thu, 04 Nov 2010 13:32:00 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=80547 Am I My Son? Human Clones and the Modern Family W. Nicholson Price II, 11 Colum. Sci. & Tech. L. Rev. 119 (2010) "As increasingly complex assisted reproductive technologies (ART) become available, legal and social conceptions of family become ambiguous and sometimes misaligned. The as-yet unrealized technology of cloning provides the clearest example of this confusion: is the legal parent of a clone the individual cloned, or are that individual's parents also the parents of the clone? These issues have been generally obscured by the debates around the deployment of ART, especially cloning; far less consideration has been given to the way these new technologies impact the way we think about and develop law on the relationships between genetic, social, gestational, and legal parenthood. This article considers these issues in depth, looking at competing common-law frameworks for determining parentage, the statutory framework of parentage, and deeper theoretical concerns underlying the area. The article concludes that an intent-based framework, with at least some external limitations, most accurately matches law to social views of parents using new forms of ART." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/11/04/law-review-am-i-my-son-human-clones-and-the-modern-family/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/11/03/ethical-lines-drawn-in-discovery-institute-cloning-debate/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/11/03/ethical-lines-drawn-in-discovery-institute-cloning-debate/#comments Wed, 03 Nov 2010 16:21:59 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=79951 LifeNews: "The Discovery Institute played host to a discussion of what it means to be human as a prelude to the 79th annual educational conference in Seattle for the Catholic Medical Association." Event site. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/11/03/ethical-lines-drawn-in-discovery-institute-cloning-debate/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/09/23/wesley-j-smith-federal-funding-for-human-cloning/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/09/23/wesley-j-smith-federal-funding-for-human-cloning/#comments Thu, 23 Sep 2010 17:31:38 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=73452 writing at National Review Online: "Just when you thought the political fight over federal funding of embryonic-stem-cell research (ESCR) was over, United States District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth ruled that President Obama’s ESCR policy violates the 'Dickey-Wicker Amendment,' a federal law barring federal funding of 'the creation of a human embryo . . . for research purposes' and 'research in which a human embryo or embryos are destroyed.' In response, a group of lawmakers introduced legislation that would authorize federal funding for human cloning . . . DeGette/Castle/Specter would do more than restore Obama’s ESCR policy. It would also explicitly authorize federal funding of human-cloning research — which is not permitted under the current NIH plan." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/09/23/wesley-j-smith-federal-funding-for-human-cloning/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/09/22/law-review-human-reproductive-cloning-science-jewish-law-and-metaphyics/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/09/22/law-review-human-reproductive-cloning-science-jewish-law-and-metaphyics/#comments Wed, 22 Sep 2010 13:29:25 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/09/22/law-review-human-reproductive-cloning-science-jewish-law-and-metaphyics/ Human Reproductive Cloning: Science, Jewish Law and Metaphyics (September 20, 2010). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1679907 "In this, Part II, of the paper I expand and annotate statements of the Ramban on the interrelationship of the reproductive faculties of an organism and its soul by examining the development of the spiritual states of plant, animal and human and noting the commensurate evolution with its reproductive facilities. Speculating that the reproductive mechanism of each species is indelibly related to its soul-state, I suggest that interfering with human sexual reproduction by HRC has the same effect the Ramban argues is the result of Kilayim (interbreeding), i.e., wrecking havoc with the Universe." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/09/22/law-review-human-reproductive-cloning-science-jewish-law-and-metaphyics/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/06/10/kagan-files-from-clinton-administration-show-her-backing-human-cloning/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/06/10/kagan-files-from-clinton-administration-show-her-backing-human-cloning/#comments Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:19:30 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/06/10/kagan-files-from-clinton-administration-show-her-backing-human-cloning/ LifeNews: "Add human cloning to abortion and assisted suicide as practices pro-life groups oppose but Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan supports. Files released from the Clinton library about Kagan's time in the Clinton administration show her advocating cloning humans for dubious research." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/06/10/kagan-files-from-clinton-administration-show-her-backing-human-cloning/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/05/27/ohio-senate-committee-passes-ban-on-human-animal-hybrid-cloning/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/05/27/ohio-senate-committee-passes-ban-on-human-animal-hybrid-cloning/#comments Thu, 27 May 2010 17:40:09 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/05/27/ohio-senate-committee-passes-ban-on-human-animal-hybrid-cloning/ LifeNews: "On Tuesday, the Ohio Senate Health, Human Services & Aging Committee heard final testimony on SB 243, the ban on human cloning and human-animal hybrids . . ." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/05/27/ohio-senate-committee-passes-ban-on-human-animal-hybrid-cloning/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/05/25/uk-motor-neurone-disease-group-donates-800000-for-humananimal-hybrid-clone-researc/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/05/25/uk-motor-neurone-disease-group-donates-800000-for-humananimal-hybrid-clone-researc/#comments Tue, 25 May 2010 18:30:51 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/05/25/uk-motor-neurone-disease-group-donates-800000-for-humananimal-hybrid-clone-researc/ LifeSiteNews: "The UK’s Motor Neurone Disease Association has announced it will donate £800,000 (US $1,200,000) to fund human/animal 'hybrid embryo' cloning research by the same Edinburgh University team that created 'Dolly' the cloned sheep." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/05/25/uk-motor-neurone-disease-group-donates-800000-for-humananimal-hybrid-clone-researc/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/11/10/sd-coalition-for-cures-not-cloning-forms-to-fight-possible-ballot-vote/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/11/10/sd-coalition-for-cures-not-cloning-forms-to-fight-possible-ballot-vote/#comments Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:11:26 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=41890 KSFY: "The Coalition for Cures Not Cloning is the new group. They say they'll be making an official announcement Thursday. The group will be planning efforts to fight a 2010 initiative that would reverse the current ban on cloning and embryonic stem cell research." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/11/10/sd-coalition-for-cures-not-cloning-forms-to-fight-possible-ballot-vote/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/10/22/south-dakota-petition-drive-aims-to-overturn-human-cloning-ban/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/10/22/south-dakota-petition-drive-aims-to-overturn-human-cloning-ban/#comments Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:39:44 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=39953 Citizen Link: "Former South Dakota Secretary of State David Volk wants to overturn a state law that bans the creation and destruction of human embryos for research." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/10/22/south-dakota-petition-drive-aims-to-overturn-human-cloning-ban/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/10/21/mo-anti-cloning-and-personhood-initiatives-approved-for-circulation/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/10/21/mo-anti-cloning-and-personhood-initiatives-approved-for-circulation/#comments Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:49:22 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=39715 St. Louis Public Radio: "The Missouri Secretary of State's Office has approved for circulation two ballot initiatives backed by opponents of abortion and of a type of stem cell research some consider to be human cloning." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/10/21/mo-anti-cloning-and-personhood-initiatives-approved-for-circulation/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/10/16/russian-ban-on-human-cloning-extended-for-five-more-years/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/10/16/russian-ban-on-human-cloning-extended-for-five-more-years/#comments Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:29:54 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=39314 Law Library of Congress: "On October 2, 2009, the Minister of Health Care and Social Services of the Russian Federation announced a government decision to extend the ban on human cloning for another five years. This ban was introduced in 2002, and it expired on June 23, 2007. Even though the moratorium has been formally lifted since then, no work on human cloning has been authorized in this heavily regulated field." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/10/16/russian-ban-on-human-cloning-extended-for-five-more-years/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/09/15/newly-confirmed-obama-regulatory-czar-cass-sunstein-pro-abortion-pro-cloning/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/09/15/newly-confirmed-obama-regulatory-czar-cass-sunstein-pro-abortion-pro-cloning/#comments Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:16:26 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/09/15/newly-confirmed-obama-regulatory-czar-cass-sunstein-pro-abortion-pro-cloning/ LifeNews: "Sunstein was confirmed by the Senate last week as administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. Now, reports indicate Sunstein holds pro-abortion and pro-human cloning views that are upsetting for the majority of Americans who are pro-life." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/09/15/newly-confirmed-obama-regulatory-czar-cass-sunstein-pro-abortion-pro-cloning/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/08/31/constitutional-constraints-on-the-regulation-of-cloning/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/08/31/constitutional-constraints-on-the-regulation-of-cloning/#comments Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:32:44 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=34761 Constitutional Constraints on the Regulation of Cloning Robert A. Burt, 9 Yale J. Health Pol'y, L. & Ethics 495 (2009) "Broadly speaking, I will evaluate four different constitutional challenges to a total ban [on cloning]: 1) that such regulations violate researchers' constitutional right of free scientific inquiry; 2) that such regulations violate individual rights to reproductive freedom; 3) that the former Executive Branch restriction imposed an unconstitutional condition on the availability of government funding; and 4) that neither reproductive nor therapeutic cloning is a permissible subject for congressional enactment, but that both are reserved exclusively for state regulatory authority. Exhaustively evaluating these four possible constitutional objections would require writing at least a small textbook on constitutional law; I will instead be suggestive rather than exhaustive." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/08/31/constitutional-constraints-on-the-regulation-of-cloning/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/07/23/ban-of-human-animal-hybrids-sought-in-congress/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/07/23/ban-of-human-animal-hybrids-sought-in-congress/#comments Thu, 23 Jul 2009 23:16:17 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=30953 Baptist Press: "Sen. Sam Brownback, R.-Kan., has introduced legislation to prohibit the creation of human-animal hybrids. If enacted, the Human-animal Hybrid Prohibition Act, S. 1435, would bar the creation of beings made from the genetic material of both people and animals. Without a ban, such hybrids could be created for research purposes in laboratories." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/07/23/ban-of-human-animal-hybrids-sought-in-congress/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/07/14/new-bill-would-ban-use-of-cloning-for-human-animal-hybrids/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/07/14/new-bill-would-ban-use-of-cloning-for-human-animal-hybrids/#comments Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:57:57 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=29965 LifeNews reports: "Two members of the U.S. Senate who have been behind unsuccessful efforts to ban all forms of human cloning have introduced new legislation with a new approach. They want to ban the use of human cloning to make human-animal hybrids, the kind of research taking place currently in England." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/07/14/new-bill-would-ban-use-of-cloning-for-human-animal-hybrids/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/07/06/using-a-property-rights-model-to-resolve-disputes-over-cryopreserved-embryos/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/07/06/using-a-property-rights-model-to-resolve-disputes-over-cryopreserved-embryos/#comments Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:32:37 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=29260 Texas Journal on Civil Liberties & Civil Rights: "This article does not promote a personhood status and discusses in detail why such status is not correct under the law. The article goes on to propose instead a modified bundle of property rights that could be assigned to the man and woman who created each embryo and a statutory scheme for addressing disputes at the time of divorce and also disposition at the time of death of either of the parties. This article actually shows how using a property rights model will ultimately promote life over destruction while still providing a large degree of protection for individual autonomy." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/07/06/using-a-property-rights-model-to-resolve-disputes-over-cryopreserved-embryos/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/07/01/westchester-institute-on-egg-donation/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/07/01/westchester-institute-on-egg-donation/#comments Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:48:38 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=28869 has a roundup of recent news on egg donation. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/07/01/westchester-institute-on-egg-donation/feed/ 1 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/06/26/cloning-polygamy-affair-is-worse-say-most/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/06/26/cloning-polygamy-affair-is-worse-say-most/#comments Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:05:28 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=28343 Newsday: Ninety-two percent of those polled say that it's morally wrong for married people to have an affair. Even more wrong than cloning a human, for instance. Only 88 percent of people say that's wrong . . . Committing suicide? 80 percent. Polygamy? 91 percent . . . " ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/06/26/cloning-polygamy-affair-is-worse-say-most/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/06/24/eggs-as-capital-human-egg-procurement-in-the-fertility-industry-and-the-stem-cell-research-enterprise/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/06/24/eggs-as-capital-human-egg-procurement-in-the-fertility-industry-and-the-stem-cell-research-enterprise/#comments Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:30:23 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=28121 Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society: "Science is one arena of national status competition. In competition, both scientists and scientific know-how are deployed in the effort to achieve victory. The prize varies. The meanings attached to that prize shift over time and political space. In the domestic debate about human embryonic stem cell research, one of several pro-research positions is that government funding of human embryonic stem cell research is necessary to maintain U.S. primacy in the international arena. This paper explores some of the material and normative implications of this competition for women." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/06/24/eggs-as-capital-human-egg-procurement-in-the-fertility-industry-and-the-stem-cell-research-enterprise/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/05/19/okla-minn-take-stand-against-cloning/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/05/19/okla-minn-take-stand-against-cloning/#comments Tue, 19 May 2009 23:08:25 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=24606 Baptist Press reports: "The Oklahoma legislature has unanimously approved a bill to prohibit all forms of human cloning, while Minnesota's governor has signed a bill prohibiting the use of state funds for human cloning." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/05/19/okla-minn-take-stand-against-cloning/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/04/28/cloning-heats-up-as-next-bioresearch-fight/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/04/28/cloning-heats-up-as-next-bioresearch-fight/#comments Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:15:44 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=22536 CQ Politics: "Two House members who were the chief backers of legislation to expand embryonic stem cell research are working on a new bill that would codify President Obama’s recent executive order allowing greater federal funding for the research. Their legislation will also contain language allowing the National Institutes of Health to invest in other kinds of research into human cell biology, perhaps including what is known as 'therapeutic cloning.'" ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/04/28/cloning-heats-up-as-next-bioresearch-fight/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/04/28/skorean-experts-claim-to-have-cloned-glowing-dogs/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/04/28/skorean-experts-claim-to-have-cloned-glowing-dogs/#comments Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:19:22 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=22524 AP: "What's significant in this work is not the dogs expressing red colors but that we planted genes into them," Lee told The Associated Press on Tuesday. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/04/28/skorean-experts-claim-to-have-cloned-glowing-dogs/feed/ 0