HHS Cuts Funding for Research Involving Aborted Fetal Tissue

The prolife movement scored a major victory yesterday when the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that it is discontinuing a contract that provides funds for research involving fetal tissue procured from elective abortions.

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Dr. Mehmet Oz Tells Oprah: “The Stem Cell Debate is Dead”

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer

During a recent appearance on the Oprah Winfrey show, the popular cardiovascular surgeon and television personality, Dr. Mehmet Oz, announced to a stunned audience that due to advances in adult stem cell technology, the debate over embryonic stem cells “is dead.”

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Obama Gives Taxpayer Money to Embryonic Stem Cell Research

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer

President Barack Obama is expected to announce today that he will rescind the prohibition on federal funding of embryonic stem cell research put in place by President George W. Bush in 2001,  thereby forcing taxpayers to fund the destruction of human embryonic life. Read the rest…