A moral decree from the vatican’t
“The Vatican issued the most authoritative and sweeping document on bioethical issues in 20 years on Friday, taking into account recent developments in biomedical technology and reinforcing the church’s opposition to in vitro fertilization, human cloning, genetic testing on embryos before implantation and embryonic stem cell research,” report Povoledo and Goodstein of the NY Times.
In case you need yet another organisation to give you moral advice and dictate your personal life decisions (as if mom and dad weren’t enough), read about the Vatican’s decree after the break!
Obama to reverse Bush’s executive orders
President-elect Barack Obama met with President Bush (that must have been awkward!) this afternoon to discuss the war, the economy, and to get a tour of the Obama’s new home come January 20, 2009.
The BBC (and every other news agency) is reporting that with the Bush presidency nearing its end the Republicans are planning to pass last minute proposals that will be difficult for Obama to change once he’s in office. Although, the Bush administration is denying their plans.
Barack Obama also has plans of his own, to quickly change many of Bush’s executive orders that are detrimental to the society and to the progress of science. Read more to find out which laws may be affected in ’09!
Rights to choose, freedom of speech…who needs ‘em?
Two weeks until the 2008 presidential election! How well do you know your candidate’s positions?
Women’s rights, in my humble opinion, are just as important of an issue as the economic policy, international relations, and homeland security. And yet it seems like a lot of people are forgetting lately about the changes to the constitution that are proposed by the Republican campaign.
John McCain and his infamous running mate are trying to abolish the right to freedom of choice. Instead of having the federal government guarantee women’s rights to choose for themselves, McCain wants to leave it up to the states to make the decisions for them, by either abolishing or allowing abortion.
Read further to see how your vote may be solidified with the left after reading excerpts from “Mocking Women’s Health and Losing Their Votes (with ‘Air Quotes’)” by Nancy Keenan.
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