All amici seek to have the Court overturn Roe
v. Wade, which prevents States from providing any
meaningful protection for unborn children.
What a surprise to sit down on a commuter train and see an ad picturing a newborn baby held tightly by a woman with the tag line “overcoming infertility with a uterine transplant.” Bioethics is truly everywhere these days. One’s first emotional reaction is positive. Who would not want to make the joy of bringing a beautiful baby into the world possible? A further moment’s reflection also suggested another favorable thought. Infertility is sometimes caused by a lack of healthy functioning organs that in many cases can be treated.
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RE: Document Identifier: OS-0990–New–60D
Project Title: The Health Education and Relationships for Teens Study
Dear Ms. Funn:
Thank you for the opportunity to provide public comment on behalf of The National
Catholic Bioethics Center (NCBC), the National Association of Catholic Nurses, USA (NACN-
USA), and Teen STAR to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). We wish
to address the public comment request concerning The Health Education and Relationships for
Teens Study (HEARTS) collection of evaluative information. We wish to focus on the following
HEARTS subjects pertaining to collection of information:
1. The necessity and utility of the proposed information collection for the proper
performance of the agency’s functions.
2. Ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected.
Recently I have reflected on how a key aspect of the ethical framework proposed by the Catholic Church turned the world on its head. The moral judgment that the rich, powerful, and privileged should serve and care for the poor, weak, and underprivileged was a revolutionary concept.
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I recently had a rather shocking experience. Irresponsible reporting on Twitter and a blog accused me of lying to deceive Catholics. TThe reports linked to a brief part of an interview I had done on EWTN’s Pro-Life Weekly program almost a year ago. I said (correctly) that there was no link to abortion in the manufacture of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. (In fact, no cell lines at all are used to produce these new MRNA vaccines.) So far, so good.
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Document Identifier: OS–0990–New: Process, for proposed research involving: (1)
Pregnant women, human fetuses and neonates; (2) prisoners; or, (3) children, as subjects that
are not otherwise approval by an IRB. Specific focus of respondents on: the accuracy of the
estimated burden; and ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected.
There are disturbing reports of a small number of health workers, primarily physicians, refusing to see or treat unvaccinated persons. The American Medical Association’s (AMA) director of ethics policy and secretary to the AMA Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs felt the issue was important enough to weigh in and reiterate a basic principle of medical ethics.
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The National Catholic Bioethics Center (NCBC) is an institution that strives to serve the Church and faithful Catholics who face difficult ethical dilemmas. The COVID-19 pandemic has provided quite a few, the most recent related to COVID vaccine mandates.
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