The shedding of innocent blood
Preamble to prayer of repentance at National Solemn Assembly, Canberra 9-11 March 2007 with specific reference to abortion and cloning. The profession of medicine has a long and noble history of skill and compassion.The teachers I had in medical school were honourable and moral and many of them were Christian.
But we are [...]
Conflicting views in medical ethics.
Concern for society and the future of medicine.
At root is the conflict between the utilitarian view of human life and the ‘intrinsic value’ view (human life has intrinsic value from fertilisation to life’s natural end in all conditions of disability and dependency).
The utilitarian view is already ‘respectable’ and is dependent on [...]
If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ.
Martin Luther
The week before the Patterson Cloning bill was discussed in [...]
Download as PDF: Human Cloning and Embryonic Stem Cell Research
I am wearing 3 hats tonight. The first one is of a medical practitioner concerned about the direction our country is going in medical science. I also happen to be a Christian and the relevance of that is that it gives me a solid underpinning of [...]
UNIVERSAL TRUTH
All human life matters
Creation for destruction is
a boundary we must not cross
We must not clone and we must not kill
Submission to Members of Parliament.
Dr Lachlan Dunjey MBBS FRACGP DObstRCOG
33 Bunya St Dianella WA 6059
0407 937 513
September 2006
The morality of the 21st century will depend on how we respond to this simple but profound [...]
An Australian interview show in the tradition of Enough Rope set in the year 2020.
Host with Professor Moreau using HIL (holographic image link) to an undisclosed location.
Host: Welcome to 2020 Vision! We’ve come a long way since the turn of the century, haven’t we?
Professor: yes (sniggers)
Host: …but it’s been a hard slog, you know, overcoming all [...]
It seems like yesterday yet it was four years ago that we had a historic debate in our nation and in our parliaments. As a result of that debate two acts came into being the likes of which would have seemed very strange to a previous generation. These were to prohibit human cloning and to [...]
We can thank God for Senator Harradine’s motion of 1996 and that access to RU486 has been restricted for almost a decade. We can thank God for faithful servants.
We have lost control of RU486 to a scientific body set up to assess evidence and standards and not at the morality of the drug, but it [...]
Embrace the Grace: Learning to be a Gift of Self.
New Norcia, December 2006.
In JRRTolkien’s The Return of the King, Gandalf describes how the Stewards of Gondor are given responsibility for rule until the king has come. The steward of the time fails that responsibility miserably. In the face of oncoming danger he gives up and seeks [...]
