Brendan Foht

Brendan Foht is assistant editor of The New Atlantis. He has bachelor’s degrees in political science from the University of Calgary and in biology from the University of Alberta. He has written a number of articles on bioethics for the National Review Online, including “The Bioethics of Womb Transplants” (September 21, 2012) and “Update on the Stem-Cell Lawsuit” (September 17, 2012).

February 11, 2014
Education & Culture, The Human Person

February 11, 2014
Bioethics, Science

Why Easy Stem Cells Raise Hard Ethical Questions

By Brendan Foht

A surprising new method for making stem cells offers scientists an easy alternative to destroying human embryos. But there is a disturbing possibility that the technique may create not stem cells but actual cloned embryos.

August 7, 2012
Education & Culture, Politics & Law, The Human Person

August 7, 2012
Bioethics, Politics, Science

What Can We Learn from the Stem Cell Debates?

By Brendan Foht

A report from The Witherspoon Council, a newly-formed bioethics body, argues that even the noblest aspirations of the scientific enterprise must be guided by ethics and governed under political authority.

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