March 2010

A Good Day: Smith Debates Assisted Suicide at Columbia Law School and before Yale Political Union

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC A pretty good debate was held yesterday at Columbia University Law School between David Levin — head of New York chapter of Compassion and Choices — and yours truly. As I recall it, it hit some hard points on both sides. Check it out at [...]

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Cancer Gene Patent Tossed by Court: Could Have Huge Impact on Big Biotech

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Amidst all the fury over the Bush stem cell funding restrictions, every once in a while stories would appear indicating that the field was really being stifled not by funding problems — I’ll say — ESCR received more than $2 billion in private/public funding during [...]

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Lines That Divide Showing in CA Independent Film Festival

Lines That Divide was shown as an Official Selection at the California Independent Film Festival on Sunday, April 25. About Lines That Divide: Stem cell research: A potential miracle cure for diseases or a form of biological colonialism? The debate still rages over this controversial science. Supporters argue that it is our moral duty to [...]

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Kass Lauds Human Dignity While Accepting CBC Ramsey Award

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Leon Kass is one of the great thinkers in bioethics (and a friend), a man of great eloquence whose rare depth of thought and knowledge sometimes makes my jaw drop. In honor of his many years of contribution to bioethical discourse and his many services [...]

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California Institute of Regenerative Medicine Pays Big Salaries on Broke California’s Borrowed Money

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC The CIRM is funded by state bonds, billions in borrowed money that the people of the impecunious State of California will have to pay back with interest. That is why it is enraging that they want to pay a new VP more than $300 K [...]

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Leon Kass Remarks at the Ramsey Award Dinner

Just posted at http://www.cbc-network.org/: Remarks at the Ramsey Award Dinner by Dr. Leon R. Kass, 2010 Recipient of the Paul Ramsey Award for Excellence in Bioethics

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Leon Kass Remarks at the Ramsey Award Dinner

Remarks at the Ramsey Award Dinner by Dr. Leon R. Kass 2010 Recipient of the Paul Ramsey Award for Excellence in Bioethics Audio Version Thank you very much for the honor you have given me. I am very sorry that I cannot be with you this evening to express my gratitude and to let you [...]

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Alternatives to Assisted Suicide Do Not Engage the Culture of Death Emotional Zeitgeist

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Stories like the one I discuss below are ubiquitous. Indeed, my first hospice patient (I was a volunteer) got kicked out because he unexpectedly got better. But when he entered the program, he wailed in my arms that he wanted to die immediately because he [...]

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ESCR: Even When They Get Their Way, “the Scientists” Complain

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC For years, we heard that if only the Bush funding restrictions were removed, ESCR would quickly demonstrate its promise of curing the multitudes. Well, it’s been a year since the Bush executive order was revoked. But are “the scientists” happy? Not on a bet. From [...]

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Should Organs Be Harvestable From ERs?

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC The Washington Post has a story about a pilot program to identify donatable organs from the cadvers of people who die in emergency rooms. From the story: Using a $321,000 grant from the Department of Health and Human Services, the emergency departments at the University [...]

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