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James F. Childress, “Controversies about Human Dignity: Implications for Biotechnology,” in G. Pfleiderer, G. Brahier, K. Lindpaintner, eds., GenEthics and Religion (Basel: Karger, 2010), 28-39.
On Abortion:
Adrienne Asch, “Can Aborting ‘Imperfect’ Children Be Immoral?” in John D. Arras and Bonnie Steinbuck, eds., Ethical Issues in Modern Medicine, 5th ed. (Mountain View, CA: Mayfield, 1999), 385–88; excerpted from “Real Moral Dilemmas,” Christianity and Crisis 46, no. 10 (1986): 237–40.
On Reproductive Technologies and Human Cloning:
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, “Instruction on Respect for Human Life”
http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_19870222_respect-for-human-life_en.html
Lisa Sowle Cahill and Richard A. McCormick, “Vatican Document on Bioethics: Two Responses,” America 156 (1987): 246–48.
Lisa Sowle Cahill, Albert S. Moraczewski, Gilbert Meilaender, and Elliot N. Dorff, “Cloning Testimony,” in BioLaw Special Section / June 1997 (Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, 1997): S:100–125.
President’s Council on Bioethics, “Human Cloning & Human Dignity”
http://bioethics.georgetown.edu/pcbe/reports/cloningreport/execsummary.html
On Applied Human Genetics/Genomics (Genetic Counseling, Testing, and Engineering):
U.S. Supreme Court, Buck v. Bell (1927), in T. Beauchamp, L. Walters, J. P. Kahn, A. C. Mastroianni, eds., Contemporary Issues in Bioethics, 4th ed. (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2008), 208–9.
Stephen J. Gould, “Carrie Buck’s Daughter,” Natural History 93 (1984): 14–18; also in T. Beauchamp, L. Walters, J. P. Kahn, A. C. Mastroianni, eds., Contemporary Issues in Bioethics, 4th ed. (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2008), 209–14.
http://www.stephenjaygould.org/library/gould_eugenics.html
Deana Towner and Roberta Springer Loewy, “Ethics of Preimplantation Diagnosis for a Woman Destined to Develop Early-Onset Alzheimer Disease,” JAMA 287, no. 8 (February 27, 2002): 1038–40.
http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=194666
C. Ben Mitchell, “Hurtling Toward Eugenics . . . Again,” Ethics in Medicine: A Christian Perspective on Issues in Bioethics 18, no. 2 (2002): 3–5.
http://cbhd.org/content/hurtling-towards-eugenics-again
J. A. Robertson, “Extending PGD: The Ethical Debate,” Human Reproduction 18, no. 3 (2003): 465–71.
John F. Kilner, “Poor Prognosis for Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis”
http://cbhd.org/content/poor-prognosis-preimplantation-genetic-diagnosis-pgd
On Human Stem Cell Research:
Testimony of Dorff, Pellegrino, Farley, Meilaender, and Sachedina in Ethical Issue in Human Stem Cell Research: Vol. III Religious Perspectives (Rockville, MD: NBAC, June 2000).
http://bioethics.georgetown.edu/nbac/stemcell3.pdf
President George W. Bush’s Statement on Stem Cell Research, August 9, 2001
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/08/print/20010809-2.html
Leon R. Kass, “A Way Forward on Stem Cells”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/11/AR2005071101415.html
Paul Berg, et al., “Stem Cell ‘Alternatives’ Fog the Debate”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/18/AR2005071801323.html
Rob Stein, “Scientists Report Advance in Stem Cell Alternative” The Washington Post, September 26, 2008.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/25/AR2008092502099_pf.html
The Deadly Deception, with George Strait, produced and directed by Denisce DiIanni, PBS/WGBH NOVA (1993)
“George Strait investigates the notorious Tuskegee Syphilis Study which ran from 1932 to 1972. African American men in Macon County, Alabama believed they were receiving free treatment for bad blood, instead, they were given worthless medicines for their true disease, syphilis.”
The Lynchburg Story: Eugenic Sterilization in America, produced by Bruce Eadie, directed by Stephen Trombley, Filmakers Library (1993)
“This film charts the history of the American eugenics program under which 80,000 inmates in state institutions were compulsorily sterilized. In Virginia between 1905 and 1972, several thousand children deemed by the state as unfit to reproduce were taken from their families and forced to live in the Lynchburg Colony. Victims recall their experiences of beatings, solitary confinement and other abuses.”
“Who’s My Mommy?” hosted by Dan Rather, directed by Rob Klug, 48 Hours (1999)
“Bill Lagattuta looks at the complicated case of JayCee Buzzanca a two-year old girl who is the product of modern fertility methods. An embryo, created in a laboratory using sperm and an egg from anonymous donors, was implanted in a surrogate, who had agreed to carry the baby to term and then hand the child over to Luanne and John Buzzanca. But John Buzzanca filed for divorce a month before JayCee was born. When Luanne filed for child support, he refused, saying that he was not the father. Luanne and her lawyer agreed but said John had signed the contract, making him the legal father and responsible for child support. In the meantime, Pamela Snell, the surrogate, decided to sue Luanne for custody of JayCee, claiming that she had agreed to be a surrogate with the understanding that the baby would live in a stable, two-parent home. She claimed that Luanne had kept news of her divorce a secret until after JayCee was born. Then the case became even more complicated. Erin Davison, the woman who donated the egg came forward, saying that her egg had been used without her permission by an unscrupulous fertility clinic.”