Anscombe Memorial Lecture 2019 – Dr Maureen Condic, ‘Twinning and Human Individuality’
Dr Maureen Condic delivered the 2019 Anscombe Memorial Lecture on ‘Twinning and Human Individuality’, addressing the question of identical twinning and its implications for the status of the human embryo. Dr Maureen Condic is Associate Professor of Neurobiology and Anatomy and Adjunct Professor of Paediatrics at the University of Utah. She is also a member of the U.S. National Science Board and a corresponding member of the Pontifical Academy for Life. Her current research involves the control of human stem cell potency and differentiation. In 2018 she co-authored a book entitled ‘Human Embryos, Human Beings: A Scientific and Philosophical Approach’.
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Anscombe Memorial Lecture 2023 – Dr Roberto Andorno, ‘Assisted Suicide, Autonomy and the Common Good’
Blackfriars, Oxford
Anscombe Memorial Lecture 2018 – Prof. Patricia Casey, ‘Ethical Issues in Psychiatric Diagnosis’
06 July 2018
Sincerest Thanks for Your Support
Staff are grateful to all those who sustained the Centre in the past by their prayers and the generous financial support from trusts, organisations, communities and especially from individual donors, including the core funding that came through the Day for Life fund and so from the generosity of many thousands of parishioners. We would finally like to acknowledge the support the Centre has received from the Catholic community in Ireland, especially during the pandemic when second collections were not possible.
We would like to emphasise that, though the Centre is now closed, these donations have not been wasted but have helped educate and support generations of conscientious healthcare professionals, clerics, and lay people over almost 50 years. This support has also helped prevent repeated attempts to legalise euthanasia or assisted suicide in Britain and Ireland from 1993 till the end of the Centre’s work on 31 July 2025.