Life Begins at Fertilization
Quotes from science textbooks
Human Development
Assorted quotes from textbooks
"Embryology: Inconvenient Facts" by William L. Saunders, Jr.
"The Wrong of Abortion" by Robert P. George and Patrick Lee from Andrew I. Cohen and Christopher Wellman, eds., Contemporary Debates in Applied Ethics (New York: Blackwell Publishers, 2005)
"Acorns and Embryos" by Patrick Lee and Robert P. George
"The Stubborn Facts of Science: Human Embryos are Human Beings" by Patrick Lee and Robert P. George
"Delusions of Dualism: The Human Being is an Integrated Unit" a reply to Professor Paul Bloom of Yale University, by Patrick Lee and Robert P. George
"The Pro-Life Argument from Substantial Identity" by Patrick Lee
"Human Beings are Animals" by Patrick Lee
"Human Personhood Begins at Conception" by Peter Kreeft
"I Was Once a Fetus: an Identity-Based Argument Against Abortion" by Alexander Pruss
"I Was Once a Fetus: That Is Why Abortion Is Wrong" by Alexander Pruss
"When do Human Beings Begin?" by Dianne N. Irving
"How Abortion Hurts Women: The Hard Proof" by Erika Bachiochi, JD
"The Stem Cell Debate" a written exchange between Patrick Lee, Robert P. George and Ronald Bailey (links to each written piece are included further down on the page)
"The Ethics of Embryonic Stem-Cell Research and Human Cloning" by Robert P. George
"Adult Stem Cells, Embryonic Stem Cells and Cloning" by David Prentice
"Adult Stem Cells - The Facts" by David Prentice
"Adult Stem Cells - The Facts, Addendum" by David Prentice
"Benefits of Adult Stem Cells to Human Patients" Do No Harm Fact Sheet
"Quick Scientific References: Human Cloning, Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research" by Dianne N. Irving
Congressional Testimony of David Prentice on the scientific drawbacks of embryonic stem cells and the benefits of adult stem cells
"Cast Me Not Off in Old Age" by Eric Cohen and Leon R. Kass
"Personhood, Dignity, Suicide, and Euthanasia" by Patrick Lee
"Euthanasia and the Culture of Life" by Chris Tollefsen
"Abortion" by Rabbi David Novak
"Abortion in Halakhic Literature" by Rabbi David Bleich
"Abortion" Compiled by the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance
Evangelium Vitae Pope John Paul II's encyclical on the Value and Inviolability of Human Life
Address on "Life-Sustaining Treatments and Vegetative State: Scientific Advances and Ethical Dilemmas" by Pope John Paul II
"Instruction on Respect for Human Life in its Origin and on the Dignity of Procreation: Replies to Certain Questions of the Day" from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
"Declaration on Euthanasia" from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
"Respect for the Dignity of the Dying" from the Pontifical Academy for Life
"Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" a critique of Princeton's Peter Singer, by Jenny Teichman
Testimony of Richard F. Collier, Jr. on behalf of the proposed amendment to the New Jersey state constitution allowing for the state legislature to enact laws requiring minors to receive parental consent before procuring an abortion
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