Laurence B. McCullough is professor of medicine and medical ethics and a core faculty member at the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.  He is the author of “Neonatal Ethics at the Limits of Viability” in the October 2005 issue of the journal Pediatrics and is co-author of the book Ethics […]

Mary Anderlik Majumder is assistant professor of medicine with the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy at Baylor College of Medicine.  She is co-editor of Genetic Ties and the Family: The Impact of Paternity Testing on Parents and Children.

Dr. Steven R. Leuthner is associate professor of pediatrics and bioethics at the Health Policy Institute of the Wisconsin College of Medicine in Milwaukee. He is the author of “Decisions Regarding Resuscitation of the Extremely Premature Infant and Models of Best Interest” in the April/May 2001 Journal of Perinatology and co-author of “End-of-Life Care for Neonates and Infants: The […]

Sean B. Tipton is a president of the Coalition for the Advancement of Medical Research which represents universities and health advocates and supports research cloning.

Andrew Fergusson is president and CEO of the Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity, a nonprofit group founded by Christian bioethicists. The group has issued a statement on stem cell research.

Douglas Johnson is legislative director of the National Right to Life Committee, which opposes embryonic stem cell research. He says bills such as one New Jersey passed in 2003 legalizing embryonic stem cell research promote fetus farming. Contact Megan Dillon.

Judy Norsigian, co-founder of the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective and co-author of the classic feminist book Our Bodies, Ourselves (Touchstone, 2005) and its updates, testified in 2004 in favor of the House ban on therapeutic cloning, saying it takes advantage of women’s bodies to harvest their eggs.

The Genetics & Public Policy Center of the Johns Hopkins University in Washington, D.C., “works to help policy leaders, decision makers, and the public better understand the rapidly evolving field of human genetics and its application to healthcare.” The Center studies the ethical, social and legal implications of genetic technologies, including PGD, surveys public opinion on genetics, […]

E. Christian Brugger is J. Francis Cardinal Stafford Professor of Moral Theology at St. John Vianney Theological Seminary in Denver. He wrote the essay “Embryos, Clones and Stem Cells” for the New Oxford Review (October 2003).