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The biotechnology revolution, though promising enormous returns in human well-being, is rapidly expanding our powers of control over our bodies, our thoughts, and our world. How we acquire these powers and how we decide to use them are questions not only for science, but also moral and political questions of profound importance to the future of democratic society and the dignity of human life. EPPC's program on Bioethics and American Democracy is an effort to clarify our responsibilities to future Americans by encouraging much needed moral and political deliberation on emerging biotechnologies.

      • Bioethics Policy Guide
      • UNESCO Bioethics Chair
      • The New Atlantis
      • The Embryo Question
      • The Ethics of Enhancement
      • Eugenics: Past and Future
      • Aging and Human Dignity

Latest News & Publications

Obama's Case Against Obama
Why the president's Notre Dame speech should hearten lifers . . . a little.
By Yuval Levin
Thursday, May 21, 2009
For all the controversy surrounding his invitation, President Obama's commencement address at the University of Notre Dame actually offered pro-lifers some causes for optimism by unintentionally clarifying the profound and growing weakness of the case for America's radical abortion laws.
The Real Lessons of Stem Cells
By Yuval Levin
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
President Obama's decision to support the destruction of embryos with taxpayer dollars not only ignores the ethics of the stem cell debate but also the key scientific developments of the past few years, which have shown that the cells the scientists seek can be obtained without unethical practices.
The President Politicizes Stem-Cell Research
Taxpayers have a right to be left out of it.
By Eric Cohen, Robert P. George
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Yesterday President Barack Obama issued an executive order that authorizes expanded federal funding for research using stem cells produced by destroying human embryos. The announcement was classic Obama: advancing radical policies while seeming calm and moderate, and preaching the gospel of civility while accusing those who disagree with the policies of being "divisive" and even "politicizing science."
Science Over All?
The Temptation in Obama's Stem Cell Policy
By Yuval Levin
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
President Obama's stem cell rhetoric this week is a powerful example of a very dangerous inclination among policy makers to leave science policy to the scientists--and so to leave it devoid of ethics, prudence, wisdom, and responsibility.
The New Atlantis Issue 23
The New Atlantis
A Journal of Technology and Society

The New Atlantis is an effort to clarify the nation's moral and political understanding of all areas of technology, with a special emphasis on bioethics. The quarterly journal is an attempt to make sense of the larger questions surrounding technology and human nature, and the practical questions of governing and regulating science— especially where the moral stakes are high and the political divides are deep.

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