France Lifts Its Ban on Embryonic Stem Cell Research

It is a common misconception in America that in the rest of the world, scientists are free to work with embryonic stem cells all they want, and that in the United States, we are “far behind” everyone else because of President George W. Bush’s funding restrictions. That simply is not true. Unlike the U.S. that…

ROMANIA HAS SURPASSED THE MINIMUM REQUIRED

Romania has reached the minimum signatures required by the Commission. With this great advance from Romania  10 EU countries have support the citizens initiative One of Us surpassing the number of signatures required by the EU regulations for the ECI’s: Austria, Spain, France, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland and Slovakia. Congratulations to all the team…

Chinese Scholar: One-Child Policy “Worse than Cultural Revolution”

Public policy researcher Wang Feng slammed the One-Child Policy at an academic conference in Beijing last month. Wang, who works for the Brookings Tsinghua Center for Public Policy Research, delivered his bold criticism in an interview with Chinese media outlet Sohu Finance. “I believe history will judge the One-Child Policy as worse than the Cultural Revolution,” Wang said.…

THE EUROPEAN CITIZENS INITIATIVE ONE OF US HAS OVERCOME THE 800,000 SIGNATURES: 802,408 EUROPEAN CITIZENS DEMAND THE PROTECTION OF THE HUMAN EMBRYO

The European Citizens initiative One of Us has surpassed today, July 19th , the 800,000 signatures with the campaign  in Europe in defense of life from conception  “One of Us”. Concretely 802.408 European Citizens have support the Initiative so far. Nine countries have already reached the minimum of the signatures required by the Commission. One…

Not with a bang, but a whimper: the quiet demise of embryonic stem cell research

June 4, 2013 (Mercatornet.com) – Let’s wind the clock back to 2003. In January wheelchair-bound quadriplegic actor Christopher Reeve visited Australia to promote the legalisation of “therapeutic cloning”. This was absolutely necessary, he said, or patients would die needlessly. Scepticism about the potential of embryonic stem cells was utterly unwarranted. “That’s a myth,” he told his Australian…