The Center for Bioethics and Culture

I hope you all are staying safe, healthy, and sane during these challenging and unfamiliar times we find ourselves facing! As a nurse in the Bay Area, I am constantly reading and educating myself on the newest developments surrounding the Covid-19 pandemic and the repercussions this wicked virus is having on ourselves and society. There […]

Dear friends, It is with sadness, I regret to inform you that the Paul Ramsey dinner is cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic.  To that end, we have rescheduled for April 17, 2021, where Helen Alvaré will be on hand to receive the Paul Ramsey Award. We know many of you were so excited to celebrate […]

On Venus Rising, we talk a lot about surrogacy, but we haven’t brought you a real, honest interview with a woman who’s currently living the life of a surrogate. All of that changes today. ‘Lynn,’ whose name has been changed to protect her identity, sits down with Jennifer for an authentic discussion about her ongoing […]

The Center for Bioethics and Culture cordially invites you to join us in sunny Irvine, CA for “Perspectives in Bioethics,” a day-long event with some of the leading subject matter experts in bioethics. This intimate gathering will allow us to engage some of the most urgent concerns in medicine, science, technology, and ethics. (See agenda […]

Today on Venus Rising, Jennifer speaks with a Ph.D. candidate who is researching female body sex dolls and robots, specifically, how men conceptualize these products and the implications of this kind of technology for women. Allow us to introduce you to a very influential activist and writer, Ms. Caitlin Roper. Ms. Roper is also very […]

We are overjoyed to finally introduce Nick Isel as our next guest on Venus Rising. At age 15, Nick learned that he and his sister were donor-conceived. Nick is one of 215 babies known infamously as “Nobel babies,” who are products of eugenicist Robert Graham’s Repository for Germinal Choice, a California-based sperm bank known as […]

( photo by Shannon Marvel / Forum News Service)  Dear Chair and Members of the House Judiciary Committee, Thank you for this opportunity to speak with you today about House Bill 1096 which would prohibit commercial surrogacy in your state.   Every 14 minutes, in the United States, someone is added to the kidney transplant list. Thirteen Americans die each […]

I have met Peter Singer, Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, on two occasions. Both times, I invited him to do a public debate with our then Chairman of the Board, Dr. Nigel Cameron. The first debate, “The Debate of the Century: What Does it Mean to Be Human” can be viewed on […]