Teaching and Review Essays

Immediately beneath each topic is a brief summary of how Susan and jeanne see that topic as conceptually linked to peace and issues of social justice.

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• Abortion
• Academic Resources . . .
  . . . See Scholastic Resources
• Adversarialism and Mutuality

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• Stem Cell Research

  In the interest of understanding the interdependence of many disciplines in answering some of the major questions facing us today. And in the interest of understanding that no issue can be safely removed from the overall context. Medical research, genetic research, and issues of life and its meaning are at some point interdependent.

  • Cloning for Medicine A 1998 Scientific American article.

  • Statement on President Bush's Decision On Federal Funding for Embryonic Stem Cell Research By Peter Van Etten, President and CEO of Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International.

    • Tom the Dancing Bug: When blastocysts go bad. in Salon Magazine online. Science fiction cartoon on the death penalty and stem cell research. Left perspective. See Interactive article on stem cell research for explanation of blastocysts. backup.

    • President Bush Finds His Voice By Richard Brookhiser, New York Times, Opinion Section, August 11, 2001.

  • Ought We Do What We Can Do? By Sheryl Gay Stolberg. August 12, 2001. Week in Review. p. 1. New York Times. Discussion on bioethics and stem cell research.

  • President's Statement on Funding Stem Cell Research August 9, 2001. The text of a statement by President George W. Bush concerning federal funding of stem cell research, from his ranch in Crawford, Tex., as recorded by The New York Times.

  • Bush Says He Will Veto Any Bill Broadening His Stem Cell Policy By Frank Bruni. August 14, 2001. p. A1. New York Times. backup
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    The NY Times Photo . . . and . . . the OK Corral

    "I laid out the policy I think is right for America.
    And I'm not going to change my mind." gwb

    (and a Reuters photograph altered by jeanne.)

  • Interactive article on stem cell research New York Times Site. Interactive in this case means you can choose the links you want to follow. But it's a good quick summary of what stem cell research is about. Link added August 14, 2001.

  • Stem-Cell Advances Are Likely to Heighten Ethics Debate New York Times article. By Nicholas A. Wade. April 27, 2001.