I saw a story this morning about a Dutch reality-TV show in which a terminally-ill woman will choose which of the contestants get her kidneys when she dies.
Yes, you read that correctly:
In the show, due to be broadcast on Friday, a woman identified only as Lisa, 37, will select a recipient based on their history, [...]
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Where Is This Taking Us?
Posted in Brave New World, Culture of Death on May 29, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Playing God
Posted in Brave New World, Culture of Death on May 18, 2007 | 5 Comments »
The Guardian reports that the British government has overturned its ban on human-animal embryonic hybrids.
The first kind of hybrid allowed under the bill, known as a chimeric embryo, is made by injecting cells from an animal into a human embryo. The second, known as a human transgenic embryo, involves injecting animal DNA into a human [...]
Moral Gymnastics for a Brave New Church
Posted in Brave New World, Culture of Death on November 23, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
It’s amusing how the media (particularly the British media) begin foaming at the mouth every time they get wind of some scheme within the Church to allow the use of condoms.This article from the Guardian looks to all the usual suspects amongst the princes of the Church in referencing a supposed Vatican shift on the [...]
The Absurdity of Grace
Posted in Brave New World, Culture of Death on November 15, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Reading a post from Curmudgeon, who “gave up blogging” recently, I was lead to an article by Francis Kissling that began with this intended bombshell of incredulity:
When the archbishop of Kampala, Uganda, Cardinal Emmanuel Wamala, told the BBC Panorama documentary Sex and the City that it was preferable to die than to use a condom, [...]
