Ronald Cole-Turner is the H. Parker Sharp Professor of Theology and Ethics at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, author of Transhumanism and Transcendence: Christian Hope in an Age of Technological Advancement and editor of Design and Destiny: Jewish and Christian Perspectives on Human Germline Modification.

Adrienne Asch is director of the Center for Ethics and Edward and Robin Milstein Professor of Bioethics at Yeshiva University in New York City. Her writings include “Assisted Reproduction,” in From Birth to Death and Bench to Clinic (2008).

Darlene Fozard Weaver is an associate professor of theology at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh Pa. She is head of the school’s new Center for the Catholic Intellectual Tradition. Weaver co-edited The Ethics of Embryo Adoption and the Catholic Tradition: Moral Arguments, Economic Reality and Social Analysis (2008).

Dr. Eric M. Meslin directs the Center for Bioethics and serves as associate dean for bioethics and professor of medicine, as well as of medical and molecular genetics, at the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis. He is also professor of philosophy in the School of Liberal Arts and co-director of the Indiana University-Purdue […]

Read a Dec. 3, 2012, article from the Michigan Newsroom Radio about Jack Kevorkian’s legacy more than a year after his death.

Josephine Johnston is a research scholar and director of research operations at the Hastings Center in Garrison, N.Y. Her writings include “Judging Octomon” in the Hastings Review and “Reproductive Health: Control and Use of Gametes and Embryos” and “Reproductive Health: Storage and Disposal of Gametes and Embryos” for the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons (London, UK) […]

David Goldstein is a professor of genetics and development at the College of Physicians and Surgeons and director of Columbia University’s Institute for Genomic Medicine in partnership with New York-Presbyterian in New York, N.Y. Goldstein has predicted there will be a growing demand for “designer babies.”

Dr. Jeffrey Botkin is professor of pediatrics and adjunct professor of human genetics at the University of Utah School of Medicine in Salt Lake City. He previously served as chair of the Committee on Bioethics for the American Academy of Pediatrics.

The American Society for Reproductive Medicine, an organization of physicians, has issued reports and statements by its ethics committee on various beginning-of-life issues.