+ The issue of medical professionals refusing to provide services because of moral objections continues to be a hot topic. Our most recent post on this issue — about doctors — prompted a string of passionate comments. SabrinaW really focused the issue in her comment when she pointed out, “… a large amount of the conflict stems from differing expectations of what a person who is certified by the medical community as a physician (or as a pharmacist) can be reasonably expected to do.”
+ Insoo Hyun was nice enough to stop by and post a link to a paper he wrote with Shinya Yamanaka, Rudy Jaenisch and Konrad Hoechedlinger about iPS cells and embryonic stem cell research. We really appreciate it when researchers and authors take the time to contribute to the discussion.
+ After a post about the personhood for embryos movement, Mr. Gunn observed, “My theory about these ballot amendment things are that they know there’s no chance of them passing, but the whole point is just to motivate people to come to the polls who’d likely vote for their candidate. It’s a great strategy, one which the Democrats fail to use as effectively.” The post also featured interesting, skeptical follow-up by Beverly Knuckols and Laura(southernxyl) about some of the comments from the quoted article.
+ And in response to a post about physicians hugging their patients, Emily wrote, “If my doctor tried to hug me I would be seriously freaked out. No thank you.”
Thank you to everyone who’s been taking the time to contribute comments. We really appreciate people getting involved with the discussion here at blog.bioethics.net.
-Greg Dahlmann