November is National Hospice and Palliative Care Month, a time to reflect on one of the most sacred duties of healthcare: accompanying individuals and families through serious illness and the final stages of life with compassion, dignity, and hope.
November is National Hospice and Palliative Care Month, a time to reflect on one of the most sacred duties of healthcare: accompanying individuals and families through serious illness and the final stages of life with compassion, dignity, and hope.
Dr. Meaney tackles the difficult topic of ectopic pregnancies and discussing the moral struggle of trying to save the life of an embryo in these difficult situations.
De-extinction, using genetic technology to bring back to life an extinct species, is now a possibility, and the bioethical questions surrounding this practice are therefore more urgent. Colossal Biosciences made headlines with its “resurrection” of the dire wolf recently after an estimated 10,000 years of extinction. The laboratory used AI-enabled genomic mapping, sophisticated gene-editing techniques, and cloning to create a wolf that is an approximate phenotypical match of the extinct dire wolf.
De-extinction, using genetic technology to bring back to life an extinct species, is now a possibility, and the bioethical questions surrounding this practice are therefore more urgent. Colossal Biosciences made headlines with its “resurrection” of the dire wolf recently after an estimated 10,000 years of extinction. The laboratory used AI-enabled genomic mapping, sophisticated gene-editing techniques, and cloning to create a wolf that is an approximate phenotypical match of the extinct dire wolf.
by Joseph Meaney, PhD, KM, for the National Catholic Bioethics CenterMarch 18, 2025There is perhaps no bioethical topic more hotly debated among Catholics than the morality of adopting frozen embryos. This issue arose after the unequivocal condemnation of the practice of in vitro fertilization (IVF) by the Instruction Donum Vitae issued by the Congregation for… Continue reading Lessons in Catholic Bioethics: The Question of Embryo Adoption
by Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, Ph.D., for the National Catholic Bioethics Center Are providers performing “gender reassignment” surgeries on minors? In October of 2024, a group known as “Do No Harm” released the Stop the Harm Database (STHD), a searchable internet resource that comprehensively catalogs sex change treatments performed between 2019-2023 on minors in healthcare facilities throughout the… Continue reading Lessons in Catholic Bioethics: Catholic Hospitals and “Gender Reassignment” for Minors?
by Joseph Meaney, PhD, KM, for the National Catholic Bioethics CenterJanuary 7, 2025America deserves the truth when it comes to abortion statistics. I recently attended a meeting/retreat for pro-life lawmakers and organizations in Harrisburg, the capital of Pennsylvania. One of the speakers pointed out that the USA has abysmally bad official abortion statistics. The states… Continue reading Lessons in Catholic Bioethics: The Ethics of Abortion Statistics
by Joseph Meaney, PhD, KM, for the National Catholic Bioethics CenterOctober 8, 2024Transplanting the Womb: A Catholic Bioethical Analysis, by Andrew S. Kubick, PhD, provides a thorough analysis of the ethical ramifications of uterine transplants from the Catholic tradition’s perspective as well as secular viewpoints. Many readers will be surprised that this is a medical… Continue reading Lessons in Catholic Bioethics: Ethical Challenges Surrounding Uterine Transplants
by Joseph Meaney, PhD, KM, for the National Catholic Bioethics CenterOctober 8, 2024 The Bioethics of Ballot Initiatives There are 26 US states that allow citizen-initiated ballot measures, and they often center on ethically charged issues like abortion, assisted suicide, or even legalizing recreational marijuana. 2024 saw a record 10 state ballot initiatives concerning abortion… Continue reading Lessons in Catholic Bioethics: The Bioethics of Ballot Initiatives
by Joseph Meaney, PhD, KM, for the National Catholic Bioethics CenterOctober 8, 2024 Choosing the Lesser Evil in Voting On his flight back from his recent pastoral visit to Asia, Pope Francis had an informal in-flight press conference. An American journalist, Anna Matranga, from CBS News, tried to draw a moral equivalence between supporting abortion… Continue reading Lessons in Catholic Bioethics: Lesser Evil in Voting
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