Originally published on EvilCouch.com on 16 October 2005.

Well, to be perfectly honest, I never really saw a problem with stem cell research. The possibility to research areas of medical science that can lead to curing a large amount of maladies far outweighs whatever “rights” that an embryo might be considered to have. There’s virtually no difference between harvesting stem cells from a blastocyst and taking a “morning after pill”. Both methods remove an embryo before it’s even implanted into the uterus. The only difference is that harvesting it for stem cell research provides benefits for medical science and the pill provides benefits for humanity by preventing a child from being born that society cannot take care of.

A team led by Dr. Robert Lanza at Advanced Cell Technology, a biotech firm at Worcester, Massachusetts, have come up with a way that preserves the embryo by only removing one of the eight cells of the blastocyst. From that single cell, they can create cells that are close enough to embryonic stem cells that they are viable for research and leaves the embryo fully viable for implantation.

Fully viable? Not so, says Mr. Richard M. Doerflinger. (more…)

This article was originally published and syndicated through the American Chronicle on November 5th 2005.

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Recently, the Motion Picture Association of America, or MPAA, has stepped up their efforts to tighten their stranglehold on the American public. They’ve vowed to use Congressional legislation to close what they call the “analog hole”. They feel very passionately that the ability to convert between analog and digital video formats should be regulated. The ability to take an analog recording and convert it to a digital format has been dubbed the “analog hole” by the MPAA in their efforts to make it sound devious. They’ve submitted reports to the Senate. They’ve testified in front of the House of Representatives. They even have a proposed law in the House.

What’s this really mean? (more…)