March 2008

When a disease is donated

My colleague, Dr. Jennifer Schneider, is attending this conference today. I had wanted to go, but just couldn’t get to Chicago to attend this week. So many conferences, so little time (and travel budget!). But this conference was of interest as it is on the feasibility of a voluntary registry to track egg and sperm [...]

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The Truth Behind Lupron

Lupron, one of the drugs commonly used in the practice of ovarian stimulation procedures, is one of the baddies which the FDA should investigate. Actually, I have called upon people in higher powers to ask the FDA to investigate the 1000s of 1000s of Lupron related complaints and Lupron related deaths they already have sitting [...]

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The Culture of Death is Heroin

The culture of death is like heroin: Once you start to mainline, it is never enough. Consider the experience of the Netherlands. When euthanasia was quasi-legalized there by court order in 1973, access to mercy killing and assisted suicide were supposed to be limited to the very few. The killing would all be governed by [...]

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Suspected human egg brokers arrested

“Police arrested two men Thursday on suspicion of procuring human eggs through the Internet in violation of the South Korean law that bans commercial trade in eggs or sperm.” I keep saying that human egg trafficking is the new frontier of human exploitation. The industry and their brokers prey upon poor women and encourage them [...]

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Don’t Make Room For Daddy

Recently, I watched an Oprah show featuring children of sperm donation. Whatever your views are on the ethics of using sperm donation to make children, there was no denying the brokenheartedness of the three young women sitting on Oprah’s stage that day. They wondered out loud to the audience: “Does he ever think about me?”, [...]

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Don’t Make Room For Daddy: Fathers Not Needed

Recently, I watched an Oprah show featuring children of sperm donation. Whatever your views are on the ethics of using sperm donation to make children, there was no denying the brokenheartedness of the three young women sitting on Oprah’s stage that day. They wondered out loud to the audience: “Does he ever think about me?”, [...]

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Cures Cures Cures!

So while the pro-cloners keep chanting “Cures Cures Cures” and billions of dollars in California go into the sink hole called the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine, I must report on news like this – On the iPSC breakthrough, “A group of researchers including Kyoto University Prof. Shinya Yamanaka that successfully developed induced pluripotent stem [...]

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Red Bull Cloning

News over the possible cloning of a “majestic” bull named Alcalde has some in the animal rights community upset. Apparently, Alcalde is ending his days after siring some 400 offspring and his owner is considering paying $45,000 to a Texas based company to have him cloned.This article writes, “Animal rights advocates and scientists say that [...]

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The Road Less Traveled: Reflections on a Life Well Lived

In Memory of Fr. Albert Moraczewski who died peacefully on May 1, 2008. read more Bioethics is a tough road to go. It’s controversial. It has unfortunately become politically contentious. And the main issues at stake remain largely ignored or misunderstood by the general public. These facts can cause me to lose sleep at night. [...]

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An Embryonic Disaster in the U.K.

A controversial new bill is heading to the House Of Commons this spring. I will be in London next month, attending this conference, and hope to learn more about the efforts to oppose the contentious issues in the new bill: Contentious issues in the new bill Animal-human hybridsScientists will be allowed to create embryos which [...]

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