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Articles in the Interchurch Bioethics Council (ICBC) Category

Real, Urgent, and Personal: A Christian Approach to Global Climate Change

By ICBC | 17 March, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in ICBC Resources |

Real, Urgent, and Personal: A Christian Approach to Global Climate ChangeThe InterChurch Bioethics Council has produced their latest …

Text of ICBC Oral Submission on Use of Embryonic Stem Cell Lines in Research

By ICBC | 9 October, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in ICBC Submissions |

Guidelines on Using Cell Lines from Established Embryonic Stem Cell Lines for Research
The Interchurch Bioethics Council represents the Anglican, Methodist and Presbyterian churches of Aotearoa:New Zealand. We have nine members …

Resources

By ICBC | 9 October, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in ICBC Resources |

Here are some resources we have available - on euthanasia, GM organisms, and biotechnology.

Where Do We Stand?

A resource and study …

GM Crops: UK Trial a warning to ERMA

By ICBC | 9 October, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in ICBC Issues & News |

Recent reports from a UK trial on the effect of GM crops on the environment are a warning to ERMA that the risks associated with the use of GM crops …

Transgenics: A Perspective from the Interchurch Bioethics Council

By ICBC | 9 October, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in ICBC Issues & News |

*Audrey Jarvis, Chris Downs, Grant Gillett, Graham O’Brien, Briar Peat, Barbara Peddie, Maree Pene, Deborah Stevens, Susan Werstein.

Transgenics is the name given to the technology whereby genes from one species …

Terminator Seeds

By ICBC | 9 October, 2007 | 1 Comment | Posted in ICBC Issues & News |

Terminator Seeds (Genetic Use Restriction Technology - GURT)

ICBC is concerned about the use of this technology and submitted the following points in a letter to the Minister for the Environment …

Research on Human Embryos

By ICBC | 9 October, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in ICBC Issues & News |

Should it be allowed?
Are there circumstances in which it is acceptable to carry out research on human embryos, knowing that in the process the embryo will be destroyed? The purpose …