- The Debate over “Dignity” continues. EPPC’s Yuval Levin hits back: an “insulting, ill-informed…tirade.” Wesley Smith: Pinker’s “stupid tantrum.” The guys at Reason are loving it. MORE: Ross Douthat, James Poulos, Larry Arnhart, and Ramesh Ponnuru.
- Are embryos like plants? Ryan Anderson reports back from a bioethics conference.
- For geneticists, knowledge is both power and terror. Jennifer Senior reviews Blood Matters: From Inherited Illness to Designer Babies, How the World and I Found Ourselves in the Future of the Gene.
- “Why I gave a teenager IVF.”
- The soul gene? Ron Bailey on the genetics of ensoulment.
- Medical tourism numbers are overstated. (RELATED: The Philippines bans kidney sales to foreigners. A sign of things to come for fertility tourism?)
- High-order multiples might be a thing of the past. A new technique to spot viable IVF embryos.
- Should cord-blood banking be standard?
Conceptions
May 15, 2008