Congratulations to the Winners of the Drawing from KWKY's Open House: Lora Van Lent and Dave Dixon
Congratulations to the Winner of today's ticket to the Catholic Charities' I-Cubs Game: Josh Shupe
Featured Local Guest: Terri Prenger, Iowans for Life, Pro-Life 101
Featured National Guest: Fr. Tad Pacholczyk, Director Of Education for the National Catholic Bioethics Center as well as a Neuroscientist and Staff Ethicist.
Today KWKY was proud of the premiere performance of Bill and Rich in the Morning. This new morning show is off to a great start with wonderful guests such as Terri Prenger of Iowans for Life as well as Fr. Tad Pacholczyk with the National Catholic Bioethics Center.
Terri Prenger kicked off our monthly Pro-Life 101 segment. Today she spoke about the importance of the Pro-Life movement to the young people. Over a third of this year's high school graduating class is not walking across the stage due to abortion. Many young people live with what is known as survivor's guilt, where they struggle to understand why their parents chose them and not their aborted sibling. A great adventure for young people is to travel to D.C. for the March for Life. The March for Life takes place every January 22 to memorialize the date that Roe-v-Wade was passed with a pro-life rally and march to the capital. Terri's advice to young people interested in this endeavor is to begin their fundraising efforts this summer. Their website: iowansforlife.org, has many great ideas on how to begin fundraising.
Fr. Tad Pacholczyk is the Director Of Education for the National Catholic Bioethics Center as well as a Neuroscientist and Staff Ethicist. He recently authored an article entitled "The Obama Stem Cell Darkness" in response to the recent lift on the ban of federal funding of embryonic stem cell research. On today's show, Fr. Tad clarified for listeners the science behind embryonic stem cell research. This particular brand of stem cell research entails taking a human embryo and destroying it for its stem cells, which will then be used to generate other forms of tissue. This act is not only ethically flawed, but there has been very little success in this area of research.
Fr. Tad explained that the idea of embryonic stem cell research is intriguing to a scientist. They want to know how they work and how they can tame this form of stem cell to their bidding. Because of the ethical issues of not only the destruction of these embryos, but that embryos used for stem cell research are created in a test tube, the Catholic Church does not back this research. With the recent lift on the ban of federal funding of stem cell research, it is not simply about the lack of success in this avenue of research, as most scientific resarch struggles at the beginning, but the moral implications of using tax dollars to fund something that is ethically unsound.
There's a new trick, Fr. Tad highlighted for us in stem cell research. That a scientist can take a plain ordinary skin cell from a patient and form it into a stem cell that can be used to treat the same patient. There have also been successes with bone marrow transfusions because of the stem cells present in the marrow. Fr. Tad applauded the work of the John Paul II Stem Cell Institute in Coralville, Iowa, as they are striving to do research as the Catholic Church would have them proceed.
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