Housekeeping, new links

I've added some links to the sidebar, changed the look of the blog and am trying to discover the way to widen the posting column. I've also edited the profile to be shorter. More "stuff" and less "about the stuff." (and it should make "jimmy" happy.)

Be sure and check out some of the new links.

Bioethics.com, run by the same people as the website for the Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity, has a new blog that is a great resource for up to date bioethics news. I'm so glad that they've started blogging.

Wesley J. Smith's blog is great reading.

I've also added links to two sites that review the history of bioethics. The Consortium on Law and Values in Human in Health, the Environment and the Life Sciences from the University of Minnesota has a Video Archive with seminars and lectures by the pushers and movers of Bioethics since the year 2000. Unfortunately, most of the featured speakers are pro-embryonic stem cells and cloning. (By the way, can you imagine a "pro-life" consortium that puts "Life Sciences" after the Environment?)

The UMN Center for Bioethics program is one of the oldest in the nation. Faculty includes Susan Wolfe, Ronald Cranford and Jeffry Kahn.

That second site, LifeTree.org, details the history of the "right to die" movement, including the support of the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation (millions to National Public telelvision, paid for supplements to the Hastings Report, and "educated" commercial television writers and producers about end of life care) and George Soros who gave well over 15 million dollars in seed money to various organizations that eventually became "Last Acts."

Both Soros and RWJF are responsible for startups of hospices and Bioethics centers at multiple universities and funded many of the legal actions. All that money puts a slightly different slant on The Women's Bioethics Project claims that the big money only goes to what they call "God's Bioethics."