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October 16, 2009: Abortion and Health Care Reform
"Abortion is a health service, " says Rev. Debra Haffner, director of the Religious Institute. "Abortion is a morally objectionable activity," says Charmaine Yoest, president of Americans United for Life.
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October 16, 2009: Abortion and Health Care Reform Extended Interviews
Watch more of Kim Lawton’s interviews with Charmaine Yoest, president of Americans United for Life, and Rev. Debra Haffner, executive director of the Religious Institute.
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October 9, 2009: End of Life Decisions
"I want to just go peacefully. The only medications I want are going to be the ones that are going to comfort me. That’s all I want," says Jill Steuer, a nurse with advanced-stage breast cancer who has decided to stop any kind of treatment and receive hospice care.
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October 9, 2009: Father Damien’s Legacy
On October 11, the 19th-century missionary priest Father Damien will be canonized in Rome and remembered for dedicating his life to individuals with leprosy, a disease that still afflicts more than 250,000 people a year.
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September 4, 2009: Personalized Genetic Testing
Is the promise of direct-to-consumer genetic testing being oversold? What ethical and public policy concerns does selling genetic tests directly to the public raise?
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Dr. Joseph Tate of Atlanta says "God gives you the ability sometimes to do things beyond what you particularly can do."
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Health Care Reform: Religious Leaders Lobby Congress
"We need health care reform and we need it today," says Rev. Jennifer Thomas of Immanuel Lutheran Church in Kansas City.
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July 24, 2009: Health Care Costs and the Elderly
"More is not better," says South Florida health care system CEO Brian Keeley. "We know that more health care services can result in lower levels of care." Health care costs are double the national average in Miami, where Keeley says specialists use more medical resources and technology.
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July 3, 2009: Aravind Eye Hospital
Patients at this hospital in Madurai, India are among the world's poorest people. It was founded by a pioneering eye surgeon who was a disciple of the spiritual teacher Sri Aurobindo, and its business success and social mission have long made it a model in public health textbooks.
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June 26, 2009: Religion and Health Care Reform
"It’s a moral outrage that we have almost 50 million people without coverage, without access to a doctor, and we have even hundreds of thousands more that can’t even use the coverage that they have," says Sister Simone Campbell, executive director of NETWORK, a national Catholic social justice lobby.
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