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Humanism for personhood: against human-racism: a new fight for human rights.

Publication: Free Inquiry
Publication Date: 01-JUN-04 		Format: Online - approximately 1032 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Humanism for personhood: against human-racism: a new fight for human rights.(Upgrading Humanity)

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In February 2004, the Bush administration found pro-life bioethicists to replace two members of the President's Commission on Bioethics who had defended the use of embryos in stem cell research. In the case of Florida resident Terri Schiavo, the Religious Right continues to fight to keep "alive" a permanently unconscious woman whose husband would like to pull the plug. The Great Ape Project is fighting to ban experimentation on chimpanzees and gorillas. Technology critics like Langdon Winner, Francis Fukuyama, and Bill McKibben warn that humanity is threatened by an emergent posthumanity, while the National Science Foundation encourages the cross-fertilization of nanotechnology, biotechnology, and the information and cognitive sciences (NBIC) towards the goal of "improving human performance."

All these issues are connected as part of a broad political struggle between advocates and opponents of two basic humanist propositions. First, humanists believe that what is of value in human life is our capacity for thought,...

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