December 2007

CBC 2007 Winners and Losers

Winners Shinya Yamanaka: Dr. Yamanaka and team, Kyoto University, have successfully turned adult skin cells into the equivalent of human embryonic stem cells without destroying the embryo. After viewing embryos under the microscope eight years ago he says, “…I suddenly realized there was such a small difference between it and my daughters.” Ely Lilly: Lilly [...]

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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays

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Deaf demand right to designer deaf children

Well Lord have mercy. Joining the list of children we want and children we don’t want is the on going battle for the ‘right’ to create deaf children. Of course this has already happened more than once in the U.S. but now the U.K. is duking it out over this issue. Check this out: “Jackie [...]

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Who’s Your Daddy?

What do you think? You for or against on this one? Artificial Gametes Debate Newcastle Centre for Life Trust, UK. 12 February 2008Scientists in Newcastle can now produce human sperm from stem cells in thelaboratory, this research is important for further understanding of humandevelopment. Should we create babies by bypassing testes and ovariescompletely? The debate [...]

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Time for a New Feminism

I’ve recently become acquainted with Dr. Jennifer Roback-Morse and her writings on marriage, sexuality, feminism etc. Yesterday I received this post on her site about the “Next Sexual Revolution: mothers over 50″. Most women becoming mothers over 50 are doing so with the heavy use of IVF technologies and almost always with an egg “donor”. [...]

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Make Room for Daddy

Some very troubling changes are taking place in the United Kingdom as it relates to birth certificates for donor conceived children. It is being debated that the birth certificates no longer list name of father and mother, but list “Parent A” and “Parent B”. I commented briefly on this at the beginning of December in [...]

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2008 Predictions

Every year, we at the CBC, turn to our wise friend, Wesley J. Smith and ask him to predict the bioethics future. Here are his predictions for 2008. I wonder how well he will do on calling these out for 2008. You can read the whole piece here, but these are his predictions: Research into [...]

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In Yet Another Stem-Cell Miracle, Dems Have Dropped The Subject

From Today’s Investor – Heaven forbid they celebrate the new stem cell breakthrough! “John Edwards had a lot he wanted to say at the Democratic National Committee’s fall meeting on Nov. 30. In a fiery speech, he ran down a litany of issues such as Iraq, health care and workers’ rights, going well over his [...]

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My Predictions for 2008

When the CBC asked me to play Nostradamus and prognosticate on how I see bioethical and biotechnological issues playing out this year, I had a good idea about much of what I would say. And most of it wasn’t very encouraging. But then something very big happened that made me glad I hadn’t written this [...]

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Dr. Shinya Yamanaka on Embryos and Little Girls

WOW! I now have another to add to my hero list. Today’s science section of the New York Times has a great piece highlighting the research of Dr. Shinya Yamanaka at Kyoto University in Japan. Dr. Yamanaka said this, “When I saw the embryo, I suddenly realized there was such a small difference between it [...]

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