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On 13 Jul 2002 at 9:23, Perry Cohen wrote: > This Sunday, July 14, a program on the Science and Ethics of > Therapeutic Cloning will be aired on PBS (at 12:30 pm in the DC > area) in the weekly series on "Religion and Ethics." The producers > of the series, had contacted me about filming my Young Parkinson > support group in Chevy Chase MD to get patient perspectives on the > issue. The group had previously been featured in the cover story of > the Washington Post Sunday Magazine in October 2000, entitled "God > and Science" on the subject of stem cell research. Instead they > found a minister in Boston with PD to interview for the show. > > Perry Cohen > Washington DC Hi Perry, This is a day late but .... Find out when RELIGION & ETHICS NEWSWEEKLY airs. To get listings in your viewing area, either enter your zipcode or choose by state. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/tv_default.html If you missed it already... The "Religion & Ethics" Newsweekly had this to say: Ethics and Cloning In a report released last Thursday (July 11), the President's Council on Bioethics, created by President George W. Bush earlier this year and made up of scientists, doctors, ethicists, social scientists, lawyers, and theologians, divided in their recommendation on how to approach therapeutic cloning -- cloning to cure disease. Ten members recommended a four-year moratorium on cloning research. Seven recommended the research go forward under strict regulations. All agreed reproductive cloning -- cloning to produce human beings -- should be banned. This week, RELIGION & ETHICS NEWSWEEKLY takes a close look at the issues in the therapeutic cloning debate. R & E correspondent Lucky Severson travels to Wenham, Massachusetts to talk with Rev. William Abernethy, who was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease 20 years ago. Rev. Abernethy views therapeutic cloning as research with God's blessing: "To have a possibility to make human life better and not use it, is as much sin as anything I can think of." Severson also reports on the cloning procedure, which involves creating the embryo and then destroying it to obtain the needed stem cells. And that process worries Bioethics Council chairman Dr. Leon Kass. "Judaism, which is my religion," explains Kass, "does not believe that this is a human being, but as a biologist, I've come to somehow regard the earliest stages of human life as not humanly nothing." Read the full story. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/week545/cover.html Revisit comments of members of the President's Council on Bioethics made at its first meeting on January 17-18, 2002. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/week520/kass.html Read an excerpt from a recent essay on the human embryonic stem cell debate by theologian Gilbert Meilander. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/week450/gilbert.html Revisit an interview with former U.S. Senator Connie Mack on the ethics and politics of embryonic stem cell research. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/week450/mack.html Visit the R & E Bioethics Archive for transcripts of many recent stories on cloning and stem cell research, along with lists of related readings and links to other helpful resources. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/tr_search.html SOURCE: PBS "religion & Ethics" Newsletter http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/ cheers ........ murray ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn