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		<title>The Importance of Dignity: A Reply to Steven Pinker</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:06:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Christopher Kaczor January 31, 2012 http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2012/01/4540 From its ancient Stoic origins to its modern Kantian formulations, human dignity is an important concept for sound ethical thinking. Doing so requires that we distinguish dignity as attributed, dignity as intrinsic worth, and dignity as flourishing. Steven Pinker, a Harvard psychologist,is well known for his 2008 article [...]]]></description>
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		<title>France sees first &#8216;saviour sibling&#8217;</title>
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		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And what happened to the other embryos? And how will this child feel when he grows up and learns we was created through science, not conceived out of love, for the purpose of helping his siblings, not because he was wanted for his own sake. Talk about feeling used. I hope his parents can also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Korean stem cell fraud given suspended sentence</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:58:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Stem Cell Research]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Cook, BioEdge Disgraced South Korean stem cell scientist Hwang Woo-suk has escaped jail after being convicted of violating bioethics laws to obtain human eggs and of embezzling US$700,000 in government grants. Hwang became a national hero after he published articles in the journal Science in 2004 claiming that he had successfully cloned human embryos [...]]]></description>
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