November 2009

For Immediate Release November 24, 2009 President Obama Establishes New Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, Names Commission Leadership WASHINGTON – Today, President Barack Obama signed an Executive Order creating a new Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues. He also announced today he has appointed Amy Gutmann to serve as Chair [...]

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Sign a Petition and Demand a Lupron Investigation

My colleague who runs the LupronVictimsHub site alerted me to this online petition which people can sign. Over 1000 emails and letters have already been sent to Congress for this purpose: The purpose of this petition is to warn others regarding the drug Lupron (Leupolide Acetate) mfg. by Takeda/Abbott Pharmaceuticals in the hope that further [...]

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2009…A Not So Dark Year in Bioethics After All

Our CBC Special Consultant, Wesley J. Smith does our annual predictions piece to give us a heads-up on what he anticipates will be the big bioethic news and concerns each year. Part of the deal I have with Wesley, is for him to critique his predictions each year, to see how well he called it. [...]

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Greenwich CT doctor uses his own sperm to inseminate women

“Hundreds of women have trusted him with their bodies, and their dreams of motherhood. Many depend on him as their doctor today. But for nearly seven years, none of Dr. Ben D. Ramaley’s patients have known that the prominent obstetrician/gynecologist had been accused of an almost unimaginable act – substituting his own sperm for that [...]

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2009…A Not So Dark Year in Bioethics After All

Each year, the CBC asks me to predict what will happen in bioethics/biotechnology in the coming year. In November 2008, I saw a “dark year” coming, caused by what I perceived to be a “cultural earthquake” caused by the election of President Obama and the legalization of assisted suicide in Washington State. Indeed, I worried [...]

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Lines That Divide Film Continues Asking Tough Questions About Bioethics Research

Lines That Divide Film Continues Asking Tough Questions About Bioethics Research A nice film review of our documentary, “Lines That Divide”. Check out where it has shown, where it is showing, some reviews and great clips of the film. Oh and feel free to pick up a copy or two.

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Overpriced Poison? – The Drug Lupron

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60 year old moms and Saviour Siblings

With the speed of science and technology and the 24/7 live newscoverage of just about anything happening all around the world, if you miss a week of blogging it can seem hard to know where to pick up and begin. While I was in London last week, the news broke the story of the63 year [...]

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This is Huxley’s Brave New World

This video has really struck a chord. We've received a number of notes on how it has helped people in thinking about (and communicating about) reproductive technologies.

This summer CBC founder and president Jennifer Lahl was interviewed for a documentary on reproductive technologies for German TV. Jennifer's segment, aptly titled "This is Huxley's Brave New World," is available online (the interview is in English with German subtitles).

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Eggsploitation is Now an E-Book

We've made the important message of our award-winning film available in another medium. We have combined the transcript of the film with several other related resources into a new e-book, now available at Amazon for reading on all of Amazon's Kindle devices and apps.
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