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Craig Venter: Playing God?

Craig Venter: Playing God?(29)

October 27, 2007

“For the first time, God has competition“, Pat Mooney, the ETC group.
This is one of the quotes that the rector of Imperial College London, Sir Richard Sykes, chose to introduce the infamous biologist, Dr Craig Venter, who had been invited to present a Centenary Prestigious Lecture, on the evening of October 23rd. Dr Venter is [...]

Craig Venter: Playing God?

The New Age of Infanticide: Muslim Musings on Abortion

Sometime ago the Australian Medical Association asked our medical department for our vote on legalizing Mifeprestone (RU486) in Australia in yet another attempt to make non-invasive abortion more accessible to Australian women. At that time, it took a woman about AU$120 to get an abortion done as medicare pays for the rest. There were about [...]