May 2009

Still Putting Pressure on Facebook to Pull Egg Donor Ads

The numbers in our group are growing so please, if you are on facebook, consider joining the group AND inviting your network to join us.  I’lve received the ads that facebook is running from four different people now – thank you all for sending them to me since this is what the facebook complaint department [...]

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Facebook Take Down the Egg Donor Ads

Join me on Facebook to demand they stop allowing Egg Donor Ads targeting young women. This ad, which is small and hard to read is offering $100,000!!!

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Rights of Conscience by Wesley J. Smith

Wesley Smith, Special Consultant to the CBC has a great piece on rights of conscience for the health care provider in the U.S. As some of you may know, these rights of conscience are being challenged today, so much so that health care workers may be forced out of their jobs if they will not [...]

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Protecting the Careers of Medical Professionals Who Believe in the Hippocratic Oath

We live in a culturally diverse society in which people vary greatly in their moral beliefs about the importance of human life. These profound differences are most bitterly expressed in the medical context, particularly with regard to issues such as abortion, physician-assisted suicide, embryonic stem cell research, and other life and death policies and procedures.

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Woman X: My Story as an Egg Donor

Another chilling story of a real life egg donor. How can the industry ignore these women and their health? Woman X writes: “During the stimulation, I had the slightest abdominal swelling and wonderful feelings. I felt fertile, powerful, and strong. The process of growing these eggs felt beautiful, and for the first time in years [...]

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Woman X: My Story as an Egg Donor

In 2002, when I was 29 and in my graduate career, I found myself desperate for a few thousand dollars. I was all-but-dissertation for a PhD in biology. I had a part-time job at the university making about $800 a month. Somehow I never had time to work on my dissertation. I had been a graduate student for more than eight years, my studies were keeping me away from a guy I loved who lived in another city, and my dissertation was stretching out because I couldn’t get time in my schedule to write. I was sick and tired of being poor, demoralized from graduate school and the harsh criticism that goes with it, and I desperately wanted to get on with my life. I had seen ads in the free entertainment newspaper paying “$3,000 for Egg Donors”. I was only making $10,000 to $12,000 a year, so this seemed like a fortune to me. And why not make money from something I wasn’t using? I decided that all I needed was about $2500, and I could get by for three months, finish my dissertation, and get a real life. I was confident this would solve my problems.

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The Center for Bioethics and Culture Network

We’ve decided to run in its entirety the speech Dr. Gilbert Meilaender gave on May 2, 2009 when he received the Paul Ramsey award. You can read his speech here: The Center for Bioethics and Culture Network Posted using ShareThis Meilaender quotes in his speech, one of my favorite Paul Ramsey quotes from his book [...]

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Learning From Ramsey

I’m honored to receive this award – and especially gratified to receive an award named in Paul Ramsey’s memory. As I thought about what I should say here this evening, it seemed to me that I might, in fact, begin by saying a little about Paul Ramsey. We can see, then, whether there is any insight to be gained from starting there. For, after all, Paul Ramsey was my teacher in graduate school. I knew him pretty well, and there’s lots to say about him.

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The Paul Ramsey Award Dinner

Friday, March 19, 2010 at 6:30 pmLakeside Olympic ClubSan Francisco, CA 94132

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