Heather Zeiger

Freelance Science Writer

Science • Ethics • Society

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Fetal Tissue Research

Is research with fetal tissue ethical? Is it even necessary when there’s more modern alternatives like organoids and induced pluripotent stem cells?

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Why Was "The Twitching Generation" So Popular on Bioethics.com?

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A Lament for Our Nation

A Lament for Our Nation

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.Martin Luther King, Jr. Racial injustice, viral pandemics, job loss--Is God there? Does he see? The Psalms have many prayers of lament that ask these very questions and then ask...

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Meditation on Holy Week in the Midst of a Pandemic

Meditation on Holy Week in the Midst of a Pandemic

U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams said, “It’s tragically fitting that we’re talking at the beginning of Holy Week because this is going to be the hardest and saddest week of most Americans’ lives, quite frankly.” I had been thinking about the restrictions placed on us...

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