Blog | Our Lady o.t. Shoals

Sep 13, 2022

Eugenics, Forced Sterilization, and Protecting the Mentally-Challenged

Although most Americans today are unaware of it, the United States has a sad and extensive history of forced sterilizations, especially...

Sep 13, 2022

New Cures from Embryonic Stem Cells?

A recent article in the New York Times by Gina Kolata chronicles the remarkable story of a patient who for many years suffered from type...

Sep 13, 2022

Sexual Atoms and Molecules

A major issue in bioethics today involves "informed consent," but some try to make everything about consent. This is especially notable...

Sep 13, 2022

The Moral Analysis of Boxing

In 1996 when Muhammad Ali lit the Olympic flame on international television, the issue of sports-induced brain damage was raised to new...

Sep 13, 2022

What Young People Could Most Profit From Hearing About Marriage

Young people today experience various pressures and expectations that can make them anxious. In a recent essay, Professor Timothy P....

Sep 13, 2022

Challenging the Establishment on Childhood Gender Transitions

A 23-year-old woman named Keira Bell recently brought a pivotal lawsuit against the National Health Services Gender Identity Development...

Sep 13, 2022

Countering Catholic Misinformation About Vaccines

A priest recently mentioned to me that he was not planning to get the COVID-19 vaccine. He told me he was concerned that RNA vaccines...

Sep 13, 2022

Should We Take Whatever Vaccine is Offered?

On March 1, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker told residents in the town of Mattapan that when it comes to the various COVID-19...

Sep 13, 2022

Vaccines and Other Entanglements with Abortion

As the new COVID-19 vaccines are being rolled out, several people have told me, “I don’t want a vaccine with any connection to abortion.”...

Sep 13, 2022

Must Catholics Refuse a COVID-19 Vaccine Made With a Cell Line from an Abortion?

In the wake of announcements from multiple pharmaceutical companies about safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines, many are expressing...

Sep 13, 2022

Should I Get Vaccinated?

Recently, many people have been reaching out with questions about vaccines. So, I thought it would be helpful to mention some of the most...

Sep 13, 2022

Is Mandating a COVID-19 Vaccine Ethical?

Virginia State Health Commissioner, Dr. Norman Oliver, told a local news station in August 2020 that he planned to mandate COVID-19...

Sep 13, 2022

COVID-19 Vaccine Myths

Several popular myths about COVID-19 vaccines have been gaining traction on social media in recent months, particularly in regard to...

Sep 13, 2022

Tragedies in Human Medical Experimentation

Between 1932 and 1972, a series of highly unethical medical studies were performed on a group of 400 African-Americans by doctors from...

Sep 13, 2022

Spiritual Lessons from the Pandemic

The Covid-19 pandemic has left many of us with a great deal of uncertainty: uncertainty about how contagious the virus is and about the...

Sep 13, 2022

Accelerating Vaccine Development

Creating a new vaccine and bringing it to market typically requires more than a decade of research and clinical testing. Many companies...

Sep 13, 2022

Thinking Through the Rationing of Ventilators

When ventilators are in short supply, several key ethical principles can assist clinicians: Ventilators should not be rationed based on...

Sep 13, 2022

A Hundred Love Letters

In a recent essay in the Wall Street Journal, Kimberly Cutter chronicled the death of her father by suicide. As he struggled with rapidly...

Sep 13, 2022

Christian Girls and Abortion

When Mother Teresa visited New Bedford, Massachusetts in June 1995, she told those of us gathered at St. Lawrence Martyr Church:...

Sep 13, 2022

The Foxes and the Henhouse

Probably the biggest bioethics story of 2019 involved Dr. Jankui He (known to his associates as “JK”), a Chinese scientist who employed a...