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Number 24, May 2011

• 
  The Non-Epistemology of Intelligent Design: Its
  Implications for Public Policy – A comment by Barbara Forrest.
  The
  

  New York Times

  has recently reported about a thorny case of censorship
  on Intelligent Design in the United States. The protagonist of this battle
  for freedom of speech, Barbara Forrest, professor of philosophy at
  Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, Louisiana and former speaker @
  World Congress in Brussels, explains what happened for the bulletin.
  
  Read more.

• NIH can go back to fund research with hESCs.
  “Research with human Embryonic Stem Cells (hESCs)
  faces challenges not only in labs but also in courts”.
  

  Read the full comment

  by Andrea Boggio, Assistant Professor of Legal
  Studies, Bryant University.

• Some more articles on embryo’s patentability.
  Read “Stem
  cell patents and the European Court of Justice” @ EuroStemCell and
  

  “Ruling on stem-cell patents may spell end of research in Europe” @ The
  Independent

• 
  Eighteenth Session of IBC on human cloning.

  The eighteenth (ordinary) session of the International
  Bioethics Committee of UNESCO (IBC) will be held in Baku (Azerbaijan), from
  31 May to 2 June 2011. Three main topics will be at the heart of this
  session: the
  principle of
  
  respect for human vulnerability and personal integrity,
  as set forth in article 8 of the UNESCO
  
  Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights
  (2005); the issue
  of

  
  human cloning and international governance;
  and the issue of

  
  traditional medicine and its ethical implications.

News in brief:

• Minor movement on US stem cell legal challenge –
  May 09, 2011
  
  http://blogs.nature.com/news/2011/05/minor_movement_on_us_stem_cell_1.html?WT.ec_id=NEWS-20110510

• Poland has one of the most restrictive abortion
  laws in Europe.
  
  http://reproductiverights.org/en/rr-v-poland-st-v-poland-z-v-poland

Edited by Carmen Sorrentino

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