SBC Life Articles by C. Ben Mitchell

JACKSON, Tenn. (BP) – Steve Hammond was a 28-year-old OB/GYN resident who started performing abortions to earn some extra money and because, it turned out, he was especially good at it. According to his own reckoning he performed more than 700 abortions.

C. Ben Mitchell examines the abortion-on-demand "logic" that leads to the sale of body parts of aborted babies. "A living human being is not merely a bundle of tissues," Mitchell, of Union University, notes, "but a person with a right to life, a right not to be harmed, especially not to be killed."

CHICAGO (BP)--President Obama kept at least two campaign promises March 9 when he signed a bill authorizing the expenditure of tax-dollars for embryo-destructive stem cell research.

CHICAGO (BP)--On Nov. 6, 1998, in a three-page article in the journal Science, professor James Thomson of the University of Wisconsin reported that he had developed the first colony of human embryonic stem cells. And the controversy over that discovery continues unabated.

DEERFIELD, Ill. (BP)--This week the United Nations’ General Assembly will debate yet again two conflicting proposals on human cloning. The so-called Costa Rican resolution, which is co-sponsored by the United States and about 60 other countries, would prohibit cloning human embryos for purposes of both reproduction and experimentation. A measure sponsored by Belgium and about 20 other countries would ban only reproductive cloning, thereby permitting the production of clones who would be destroyed when stem cells are extracted for research.

DEERFIELD, Ill. (BP)--In a move that should surprise no one, the United Kingdom’s Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has licensed researchers at the University of Newcastle to clone human embryos.

DEERFIELD, Ill. (BP)--While Ron Reagan is clearly not a clone of his father, he does support human cloning. At least that's what he told the Democratic National Convention June 27 in Boston. His allusion to cloning was subtle but real.

DEERFIELD, Ill. (BP)--When President Bush signed the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, he did more than save thousands of lives from an unnecessary and barbaric death. Through passing the ban, the president, along with the majority of our Congress, restored a measure of sanity to our national conscience and slowed our descent into the moral abyss.

DEERFIELD, Ill. (BP)--One of the values of biography is encouragement. Seeing God's providence worked out in the life of another human being can often encourage us to repent, beware or persevere. Perseverance is the lesson I learn from the biography of one of my own Christian heroes, William Wilberforce.