February 2007

Unscrambling the Human Egg Donation Debate

Jennifer Lahl comments: My piece, ‘An Inconvenient Truth: Eggsploitation Happens‘,brought our readers out of the woodwork. The response rate wasphenomenal with many people saying they just never realized how feweggs a woman has for her own future fertility. Nobody doubted thepotential serious health risks to young women, which there alone shouldend this debate over ‘eggs [...]

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You’re Messing With My Mind

A growing field full of ethical worries is the area of ‘neuroethics’. As science and technology advances, specifically in the area of brain research, new ethical dilemnas are presenting themselves. And fairly quickly onto the scene with little notice from the public. Today there is this article which points out what some of the ethical [...]

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A Duty to Die

Yesterday’s piece I posted, written by my colleague Wesley J. Smith, “Pushing for Death on Demand” brought many comments. One comment in particular, stating that death on demand quickly leads us to “duty to die” thinking. I am reminded of an essay in Hastings Center Report which was titled “A Duty to Die”. The author [...]

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Pushing for Death on Demand

Wesley J. Smith, CBC special consultant The Swiss Supreme Court recently ruled that people with mental illnesses can be legally assisted in suicide. The case came about when a member of Dignitas, an organization, which, for a fee, provides a safe house for—and assistance with—suicide, brought a lawsuit seeking the right to die. The man [...]

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Pushing for Death on Demand

TheSwiss Supreme Court recently ruled that people with mental illnessescan be legally assisted in suicide. The case came about when a memberof Dignitas, an organization, which, for a fee, provides a safe housefor—and assistance with—suicide, brought a lawsuit seeking the right todie. The man does not have cancer, AIDS or other physical illness, asthat term [...]

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CBC 2005 Winners and Losers

Winners Proposition 71 Opponents:Our hats are off to a rag tag team of feminists, environmentalists,progressives, pro-choice and pro-life voices who have stopped Prop. 71in its tracks. California biotech has yet to see any of the 3 billiondollars it was promised. A truly poignant and modern David and Goliath story. United Nations: The U.N. General Assembly [...]

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An Inconvenient Truth: Eggsploitation Happens

It’s human nature to want to explain away truths we’d rather ignore. Every morning millions of people convince themselves that the number on the bathroom scale simply can’t be accurate. No fault divorce prevails as we no longer feel the need to fess up to what went wrong—we conveniently claim ‘irreconcilable differences’. 21st century science [...]

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MIT Professor James Sherley Begins Hunger Strike Over Tenure

BOSTON — A black professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology began a hunger strike Monday to protest the university’s decision to deny him tenure — a decision he claims was based on racism. James Sherley, 49, is known for his controversial theories about stem cells. He works with adult stem cells and opposes research [...]

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