The website headline says this: “IVF baby lost in horror car smash”. And the subtitle reads as follows: “An unborn baby girl has been killed…
There is one thing that can be counted on with absolute certainly in this relativistic world: there is a protected species which no one even…
One of the big problems with living in an age of rights is that when one person demands his or her rights, often someone else…
The danger always exists that if science can do something, it will do it. But simply because something can be done does not mean that…
Enough already. Let’s just get it over with and put this nation out of its misery. How much further down the gurgler can it go?…
The dramatic erosion of marriage and the explosion of out-of-control sexuality are not without their devastating consequences. Many acute observers have noted this. In 1968…
Sometimes the steady stream of craziness becomes so full on that one can only list the various episodes along with the briefest of commentary. The…
Why is it that Australia seems to produce so many “ethicists” who would perhaps have been perfectly at home in a certain European nation about…
All over the Western world we are witnessing the rise of judicial activism. That is, we find the active political involvement of judges in contentious…
Take any contentious social issue of the day, and you will find plenty of illogic, name-calling, emotional appeals, and confused thinking. All this is much…
When Chamberlain visited Hitler, he was full of good intentions, even though he was being pretty naive. He came back from his meeting proclaiming “Peace…
Why am I not surprised? The Victorian government has just announced that it will grant IVF access to homosexual couples. Minutes ago it declared that…
It seems daily we are now hearing about radical social experiments and the terrible toll they are taking on our children. These radical social upheavals…
In an age obsessed with granting adults every single whim and craving, often the biggest losers are children. We are so intent on pleasing the…
The problem of sperm donation is not the highest of national priorities at the moment. Political parties usually do not have it featuring in their…
It was rather odd to see so many female Senators voting for human cloning the other week. This in spite of the fact that many…
Despite the number of credible scientists who argued against human cloning, the Australian Senate nonetheless went ahead and voted for it to occur here. Not…
The recent surrogate birth to Federal Labor MP Stephen Conroy and partner has reignited a long-standing debate about the ethics of surrogacy. As with all…
This week the Senate debates whether we allow embryo research and human cloning. The media often likes to argue that this is a battle between…
It is not often discussed, but perhaps the biggest losers in the new biotech revolution are women. They often pay the heaviest price, be it…