April 2007

Chinatown Syndrome Revisited

Just when you think it can’t get any stranger, I read this today, “In what is considered a world first, Melanie Boivin has donated her eggs to her daughter who is sterile because of a genetic condition called Turner’s syndrome. The Montreal lawyer’s eggs are to be frozen until her 7-year-old daughter, Flavie, becomes of [...]

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Trading on the Female Body

On Tuesday April 10, I was invited to speak at a Press Briefing at the National Press Club in Washington DC. You can watch it here on CSPAN. My colleague Josephine Quintavalle, who is the co-director of Comment on Reproductive Ethics, joined me. You may recall we were in Washington DC on March 8th addressing [...]

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Those Surplus Embryos Take Center Stage *Again*

The Senate will take up Senate Bill 5 (S.5) this week. This bill, titled the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2007, will expand federal funding (because of the limitations under the Bush policy) to do human embryonic stem cell research on human embryos donated from in vitro fertilization clinics. If passed, researchers will have [...]

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