Rights and Freedom – Dr Robin Craig

July 23, 2023

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Collaboration

New Cover Design As I am nearing completion of Book 4 of the Hunter Series, I realised it made sense to enhance the readers’ experience with fresh and captivating book covers. In light of this, I am delighted to announce a special collaboration that holds great sentimental value to me. […]

December 19, 2015

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Abortion Rights

In an earlier article I have argued for a woman’s absolute right to abort her embryo or foetus. This was based on the fundamental principle that the origin of rights is not a human shape or a human genome, but the possession of a thinking mind. The same reasoning implies that […]

July 30, 2011

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Stem Cell Victory

Good news on the stem cell front, a US judge has finally ruled that federal funding for research with human embryonic stem cells (hESC) is legal. Two scientists, of all people, had sued on the grounds that funding the research violated an earlier federal law prohibiting federal funding when a […]

May 6, 2011

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Stem Cell Ban Lifted – For Now

Good recent news is the sensible decision by a US Appeals Court overturning an injunction that barred the National Institutes of Health (NIH) from funding research using human embryonic stem cells. Good as far as it goes, but it doesn’t put a stop to court action, which is based on a […]

April 7, 2011

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Political Animals

Scientific American reports: Scientists want politics kept out of endangered species decisions Some 1,293 scientists have sent a letter to each and every U.S. senator urging them not to support any endangered species legislation that is based on politics rather than science. But the very existence of an “endangered species […]

February 4, 2011

Published by admin at February 4, 2011

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Rights and Freedom

Lovem el-Said

We in the West have a great life, where for all the limitations on our rights and freedoms, we do have rights and freedoms. But we often forget the price someone, somewhere, somewhen, paid for those rights and freedoms. Reporting on the anti-government protests in Egypt, The Washington Post quotes […]