Discussing claims of DNA editing, Religion Professor Emeritus Ronald M. Green tells WMUR, "The problems are that rogue researchers will go ahead and introduce new techniques that either harm the child or are unnecessary and start a kind of arms race of having to have the perfect child."...
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September 30, 2025
The professor emeritus of religion says technology to create human eggs containing genes from adult skin cells is “very promising. But it raises a number of daunting ethical questions.”
February 07, 2017
Professor of Religion emeritus Ronald M. Green discussed reproductive rights and abortion with New York Times reporter Deborah Acosta today (February 7, 2017) in a special, live interview aired on the Times' Facebook page....
November 16, 2016
Essays delivered at the symposium celebrating the work and retirement of Professor of Religion Emeritus Ronald M. Green, held at Dartmouth in May, 2015, have now been published in the current issue of The Journal of Religious Ethics.
March 26, 2015
A symposium honoring the careers of retiring Dartmouth Religion Professors Nancy K. Frankenberry and Ronald M. Green will be held on Saturday, May 30. 2015. Click title (above) for full schedule.
November 03, 2014
Professor Ronald M. Green declares his strong support for the dying 29-year-old to end her life on her own terms. (Photo courtesy CNN.)
August 26, 2014
Oxford University Press has just published a new book co-edited by Professor Ronald M. Green and Nathan J. Palpant, Suffering and Bioethics.
July 25, 2014
"There has been such monolithic opposition to assisted suicide from Christianity. To see this monolithic wall crack a little bit, from such a respected figure as Bishop Tutu...I think that it will reinforce the moral reasons that have come forth."
May 02, 2014
Professor Ronald M. Green was interviewed on NPR's All Things Considered about the ethical implications of reports that primitive human sperm can be made out of skin cells, an advance that could someday help infertile men have children.
October 09, 2013
NPR reached out to Ronald Green, the Eunice and Julian Cohen Professor for the Study of Ethics and Human Values, about the ethical challenges of research that some believe could lead to the creation of “designer babies.”