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Global State of Stem Cells and Cloning in Science, Ethics, and Law
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Monday, March 7, 2005
7:45 AM
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Tuesday, March 8, 2005
6:30 PM
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Regina Apostolorum Pontifical University
Rome, Italy
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The Ethics and Public Policy Center was pleased to cosponsor a major conference in Rome on stem cells: the ethical issues, the scientific options, the international perspective, and the theological debate.
Program of Events
Monday, March 7, 2005
8:45 - 9:00 -- Welcoming remarks/introductions
Austin Ruse (Culture of Life Foundation)
9:00 - 11:00 -- Session I: An Overview of the Ethical and Scientific Issues
Eric Cohen (Ethics and Public Policy Center) on "Dignity, Equality, and Stem Cells"
Dr. Maureen Condic (University of Utah)
Dr. M. William Lensch (Children's Hospital/Harvard University)
11:15 - 1:00 p.m. -- Session II: Alternative Sources of Pluripotent Stem Cells: Defining Embryo Death
Dr. Donald Landry (Columbia University)
Dr. Howard Zucker (Columbia University)
Dr. Alfonso Gomez-Lobo (Georgetown University)
3:00 - 5:00 -- Session III: Alternative Sources of Pluripotent Stem Cells: Altered Nuclear Transfer
Eric Cohen (Ethics and Public Policy Center)
Father Nicanor Austriaco (Dominican House of Studies)
Dr. William Hurlbut (Stanford University)
Tuesday, March 8, 2005
8:45-10:15 -- Session IV: Policy and Law: An International Perspective
Leonard Leo (Federalist Society)
10:30-12:15 p.m. -- Session VI: The Ethics of Embryo Adoption
Father Tad Pacholcyzk (National Catholic Bioethics Center)
Father Thomas Williams LC (Regina Apostolorum Pontifical University)
2:15-3:30 -- Session V: Stem Cells in the Public Square
Wesley J. Smith (Discovery Institute)
Will Saletan (Slate)
3:45-4:45 -- Session VII: Theological Reflections on the Embryo Question
Dr. John Berkman (Catholic University of America)
4:45 - 5:00 -- Concluding Remarks
Eric Cohen (Ethics and Public Policy Center)
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The Age of Neuroelectronics
For decades, experiments at the border between brains and electronics have led to sensationalistic media coverage, vivid science fiction portrayals, and dreams of cyborgs and bionic men. But recently, this area of science has seen remarkable advances -- from robotic limbs controlled directly by brain activity, to brain implants that alter the mood of the depressed, to rats steered by remote control. In this New Atlantis article, EPPC Fellow Adam Keiper explores the peculiar history and present directions of this research, and considers the challenges of staying human in the age of neuroelectronics.
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Blogging on the Courts
EPPC President Edward Whelan, the director of the program on The Constitution, the Courts, and the Culture, is a leading contributor to Bench Memos, National Review Online's award-winning blog on judicial nominations and constitutional law. You can read a list of all of his postings here.
Here is some of the praise Mr. Whelan has received for his blogging:
 From Steve Schmidt, who, as special adviser to President Bush, led the White House's efforts to confirm the Supreme Court nominations of John Roberts and Samuel Alito: "Ed Whelan was the most influential and valuable commentator on the nominations of Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito. His remarkably rapid, thorough, and reliable responses to the distorted attacks on the nominees prevented those attacks from gaining traction. The White House was deeply grateful that he was on our side."
From Paul Mirengoff of the influential Power Line blog: "Blogs like NRO’s Bench Memos … enable legal super-stars like Ed Whelan to shoot down bad arguments against nominees within hours."
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