Obama's stem cell policy is welcome change, but ethics are permanent feature of debate
Jesse Reynolds : "President Obama's recent removal of his predecessor's stem cell policy is a welcome development. The Bush administration's restriction on the federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research was outdated and...
US President Barack Obama signed an executive order Monday which removed the previous administration's restrictions on federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research. The order fulfills Obama's campaign...
Obama administration not likely to charge harsh interrogators: report
Officials from the administration of US president-elect Barack Obama will likely not prosecute Americans who approved or actually carried out the torture or other harsh interrogation of terrorism suspects, according to an AP report published Monday....
Obama picks former Clinton impeachment lawyer to be White House counsel
US president-elect Barack Obama has reportedly selected Gregory Craig to serve as White House counsel. Craig, who was an adviser to Obama during the presidential campaign, led former President Bill Clinton's defense...
Obama planning to use executive orders to reverse some Bush policies: Podesta
John Podesta , former White House Chief of Staff under President Bill Clinton and now co-chair of the transition team for US president-elect Barack Obama said in an interview on Fox News Sunday over the...
JURIST Guest Columnist Virginia Keyder, currently teaching European Union law at Bogazici University and Sabanci University in Istanbul, Turkey, says that while the European Commission, aided most recently by the Advocate General of the European Court of Justice, has taken...
Washington supports lethal prescriptions, Michigan approves stem cell proposal
Washington is in line to become the second US state to permit physician-assisted suicide after voters there Tuesday supported Initiative Measure 1000 , which would allow terminally ill, legally competent adults to obtain lethal prescriptions...
US voters consider contentious ballot measures amidst presidential race
Voters in 36 US states considered more than 160 initiatives and referenda at the polls Tuesday, including ballot measures dealing with gay rights, abortion, affirmative action and illegal immigration . Probably the most closely watched...
The Supreme Court of Brazil Thursday ruled 6-5 that a 2005 law allowing embryonic stem cell research is constitutional, rejecting a challenge by the country's attorney general that it infringed on the...
UK legislators Monday voted 336-176 against a proposed ban on the use of human-animal hybrid embryo stem cells in scientific and medical research. The decision was highly controversial, with many...
