Ethical Research, Therapies and Cures


​This page includes information and links to local organizations with which the Respect Life Office has directly worked to provide ethical stem cell research, therapies and cures.  To learn how your organization can be included in our list of resources, please contact the Respect Life Office.
K.C. Catholic Medical Association -- Sts. Cosmas & Damian Guild
​The Kansas City guild of the Catholic Medical Association (CMA), under the patronage of the twin physician saints, Cosmas and Damian, helps busy practitioners balance the teachings of the Faith with the practice of Medicine.  CMA works closely with the local bishops to both follow their teaching and healing and comfort patients. Every medical professional is welcome to join and CMA events are open to everyone.

The Goals of the Catholic Medical Association are:
  • To uphold the principles of Catholic faith and morality as related to the science and practice of medicine.
  • To cooperate with local bishops in leading the Christian community, especially with the medical expertise particular to Catholic physicians to understand and apply Christ’s principles of faith and morality to modern medical science and practice.
  • To lead the Christian community in the work of communicating Catholic medical ethics to the medical profession and the wider community.
  • To uphold Catholic hospitals in the application of Catholic moral principles in medical practice.
  • To lend moral and spiritual support to students in the regional medical schools.
  • To enable Catholic physicians to know one another better and to work together with deeper mutual support and understanding.

First Saturdays for Physicians -- ​"First Saturdays" is a grass roots initiative to help reconnect area Catholic doctors with Christ and His church. Under the divine guidance of the Holy Spirit and through the intervention of Saints Cosmas and Damian, this collaboration of the School of Faith of the Archdiocese of KCK, the male branch of the Apostles of the Interior Life and the local guild of the Catholic Medical Association helps doctors reconnect by providing a combination of Mass, reconciliation, and a 30-45 minute catechesis led by the School of Faith Founder and theologian, Michael Scherschligt.  
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Email:  www.catholicmedkc.org/contact-us
Website:  www.catholicmedkc.org 
Cures Without Cloning

Cures without Cloning is committed to promoting treatments, therapies and cures from advancements in ethical stem cell research.   Much progress has been made in the area of non-embryonic (adult) stem cell research, yet this message is under-communicated today. Additionally, this area of research offers much promise for future progress.  Thousands of clinical trials are occurring in the area of adult stem cell research and this research can be conducted without presenting any ethical issues.

We promote life, hope and science that benefits all.
  • Educate about the intrinsic value and dignity of all human beings that begins at fertilization.
  • Encourage protection of human life at its first stages.
  • Provide a forum for scientists, physicians, researchers and health care professionals to express their views on the values that should direct ethical stem cell research and to express their support for non-embryonic (adult) stem cell research.  
  • Promote ethical cures through non-embryonic (adult) stem cell research.

Cures Without Cloning
11223 Cernech Road 
Kansas City, KS 66109

Email:  info@cureswithoutcloning.org
Website:  www.cureswithoutcloning.com
Charlotte Lozier Institute

The goal of the Charlotte Lozier Institute (CLI) is to promote deeper public understanding of the value of human life, motherhood, and fatherhood, and to identify policies and practices that will protect life and serve both women’s health and family well-being.  CLI believes that the insights available through the best science, sociology and psychology cannot help but demonstrate that each and every human is not only “fearfully and wonderfully made” but blessed to be born at this time in human history.

Charlotte Lozier Institute1200 New Hampshire Ave., NW, Suite 750
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: 202-223-8073
Fax: 202-223-8078
Email:  info@lozierinstitute.org
John Paul II Medical Research Institute 

The John Paul II Medical Research Institute is a 501 (c) (3) organization that was founded in 2007 by Dr. Alan Moy. It is a secular organization that is grounded in a pro-life bioethic that respects the dignity of every human life. The Institute has chosen a name honoring the late pontiff, blessed John Paul II, that clearly demonstrates this unwavering commitment to the culture of life. More than 300 institutes and organizations engage in and support human embryonic stem cell research. The John Paul II Medical Research Institute advocates for medical research that recognizes the dignitiy of human life from the moment of conception to natural death.

Corporate Address:

     John Paul II Medical Research Institute
     540 E. Jefferson St.
     Suite 202
     Iowa City, IA 52245 

Laboratory Address:  
     
     John Paul II Medical Research Institute
     E233, 
     BioVenture Center
     Coralville, IA  52241

Phone:  (319) 688-7367
Email:  info@jp2sri.org
Website:  www.jp2mri.org