Talk about politically-motivated, mean-spirited and divisive: The Women's Bioethics Project has decided that they're ready to play with the really big boys, and decided to "expose" the super-secret Religious Rightwing Fundamentalist Cabal they're calling, "God's Bioethics." I'm sure they wouldn't mind getting attention and a piece of those resources while they're at it. Oh, and their spokesperson, Jonathan Moreno, is selling a book, too. The .pdf "expose'" is available to read on the WBP site.
Or you can go to the Press Release at Yahoo Finance to read the pertinent quotes from the "non-partisan" group, from their spokesperson, Jonathan Moreno, of The Great American Progressive Bioethics, who's also pushing a book on the WBP site:
"The rapid advance of biotechnology is quickly outpacing our ability as a society to absorb the effect it will have on our lives," said Kathryn Hinsch, founder of the Women's Bioethics Project and author of the report, "The institutions we have relied on for guidance on difficult moral issues -- whether organized religion, government, or the academy -- have failed to keep pace with science or societal implications underlying these issues. Because of this confusion, disarray, and public policy flux, the opportunity to influence the direction of public opinion is up for grabs. Essentially, whoever gets there first will frame the debate on these issues and will affect us all for decades to come."
To date, only extremely conservative and overtly religious groups have devoted substantial resources to pushing a broad bioethics agenda. "Bioethical issues ranging from stem cell research to the Terri Schiavo case are the battlefield for defining the kind of world we want to create," said Jonathan Moreno, bioethicist and senior fellow at the Center for American Progress. "The Women's Bioethics Project analysis is an important wake-up call to people who care about scientific progress and the ability to decide what is right for their own families. The time to engage in these issues is now."
I've already announced over on the blog.bioethics.net board, so I might as well put the announcement here, too.
I was first inspired to start my own bioethics center when the FDA and CDC decided that menopause was just a part of normal aging. Then, I was going to wait and see how well the Progressives and the WBP made out selling Dr. Moreno's books. But, if it's it's a rush, this seems the appropriate time:
Press Release - The immediate past president of the Age-Related Ovarian Wasting Syndrome school of bioethics announced her group's new activism. The flushed Post-AROWSal spokesperson, fanning herself with a notebook ripped from the hand of a reporter, declared, "We're your first wives and mothers: we know where the pill bottles are hidden. We demand a place in the Big Tote Bag of bioethics!"
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