Life Issues

“Bioethics” is a term coined more than 30 years ago to describe the process of examining the ethics involved with emerging medical technologies and biological research. Bioethics is interdisciplinary, bringing together medicine, law, philosophy and public policy.

Bioethics covers a wide range of topics, including abortion, reproductive technologies, genetic intervention, stem cell research, physician-assisted suicide and end-of-life medical decisions.

Practically speaking, bioethics often touches us where we hurt the most: in illness, infertility and unexpected medical (and sometimes moral) difficulties. For Christians, bioethics is also an attempt to know what the Bible says about these issues and how God would have us respond.

Pick of the Week

Discussing Your Medical Wishes: A Patient's Guide

Discussing your wishes for medical decision-making in case you are ever unable to make your own decisions is an important task. This document will help you facilitate discussion with your loved ones on these difficult issues. read more

Recent News

White House Scrambles to Clarify Funding of Abortions in Pennsylvania

The Obama administration scrambled into "clarification" mode today following a revelation that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) approved $160 million in taxpayer funds going to Pennsylvania could be used to fund abortions. read more

Featured Blog

Crossing the Line

In order to fully embrace “woman’s rights,” a woman must be willing to abort her preborn child. That’s the argument put forth in a frightening opinion column recently published across the Pond. In it, author Antonia Senior raises the stakes for pro-abortion feminists. No longer is it sufficient to support abortion in concept and politics; the new standard is to defend it in practice. It appears that being willing to have an abortion is now a prerequisite for being a liberated woman. read more

Life Issues Archive

15 Jul 2010
What You Need to Know About Terri Schiavo
Terri Schiavo’s fight for life was widely publicized in the media but do you know the facts? Terri Schindler Schiavo [...]
15 Jul 2010
Parental Involvement Laws in Minor Abortions
Laws requiring a parent’s notification or consent before his or her minor daughter can have an abortion are on the [...]
13 Jul 2010
Hospice Care
Hospice provides support and care for persons in the last phases of incurable diseases so that they may live as [...]
13 Jul 2010
Discussing Your Medical Wishes: A Patient’s Guide
Discussing your wishes for medical decision-making in case you are ever unable to make your own decisions is an important task. This document will help you facilitate discussion with your loved ones on these difficult issues.
13 Jul 2010
Making Medical Decisions for a Loved One: A Caregiver’s Guide
What do you do if a loved one cannot make his or her own medical decisions due to an injury [...]
13 Jul 2010
Advance Medical Directives
“Living Will” Declaration vs. Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care Advance Medical Directives are documents intended to provide guidance [...]
12 Jul 2010
What the Bible says about the End of Life
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil; for Thou art with [...]
12 Jul 2010
The Dutch Disaster
Euthanasia advocates argue that strict guidelines will protect the dependent, disabled and elderly from family members or medical professionals who [...]
12 Jul 2010
Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia
Should physicians be granted the power to intentionally end the lives of their patients? Recent proposals to legalize physician-assisted suicide [...]
18 Jun 2010
What the Media Won’t Tell You about Stem Cell Research
New studies threaten to undermine everything you’ve been told about embryonic stem cell research. The following is a must read [...]