M. Therese Lysaught is associate professor of religious studies at the University of Dayton in Ohio. She wrote the article “What Would You Do If …? Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research and the Defense of the Innocent” for Stem Cell Research: New Frontiers in Science and Ethics (University of Notre Dame Press, 2003).

Brent Waters is a professor of Christian social ethics for Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston, Ill. He co-edited God and the Embryo: Religious Voices on Stem Cells and Cloning. He studies Christian ethics and can discuss their relationship to Christian political thought.

James M. Childs Jr. is a professor at Trinity Lutheran Seminary in Columbus, Ohio. He wrote the 1991 article “Genetics, ethics and the human future” for the Trinity Seminary.

Dena S. Davis is a professor at the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law at Cleveland State University in Cleveland. She wrote the article “Informed Consent for Stem Cell Research in the Public Sector” for the Journal of the American Medical Women’s Association.

Jefferson McMahan is a professor of philosophy at Rutgers University. He wrote the article “Cloning, Killing and Identity” for the Journal of Medical Ethics.

Read a June 22, 2005, Christian Science Monitor story on the debate stem cell research is sparking in Muslim countries.

Dr. John Lantos is professor of pediatrics and associate director of the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago. He is co-author of Neonatal Bioethics: The Moral Challenges of Medical Innovation and author of The Lazarus Case: Life-and-Death Issues in Neonatal Intensive Care.

Frank Gonzalez-Crussi was formerly head of laboratories at Chicago’s Children’s Memorial Hospital and professor of pathology at Northwestern Medical School. His books include On Being Born and Other Difficulties.

Jacqueline J. Glover is an associate professor in the departments of pediatrics and preventive medicine and biometrics at the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center. She is also an associate professor in the Center for Bioethics and Humanities, where she directs the center’s clinical ethics program and the interdisciplinary education program. She is […]