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Monthly Archives: May 2010
Collapse of Decency: Murder Your Daughter — Be the Subject of Rock and Roll Song
By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC What is it with our cultural leaders these days? Jack Kevorkian wanted to engage in human vivisection, he murdered Thomas Youk, and is rewarded with a biopic starring Al Pacino … Continue reading
eggsploitation ::: summer 2010
The infertility industry in the United States has grown to a multi-billion dollar business. What is its main commodity? . . . Continue Reading at CBC-Network.org –>
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Tagged egg donation, egg donor registry, Egg Donors, eggs, eggsploitation
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It’s Now Official: UK Prosecutor Legalizes Assisted Suicide by Loved Ones
By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Shameful. The UK prosecutors have placed disabled, dying, and chronically ill suicidal people at tremendous risk by refusing to prosecute a clear case of assisted suicide. From the story: A … Continue reading
Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues Not Interested in Deep Discourse, “Shadow” Bioethics Council Will Be
By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC The current First Things (June/July 2010) has an important article by Eric Cohen and Yuval Levin — both of whom were staffers on the President’s Council on Bioethics under Leon … Continue reading
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Synthetic Life Concerns Primarily About Safety — For Now
By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Just because we can do something in science, that doesn’t mean we should do it. That verity should be kept in mind as we ponder the news that scientists have … Continue reading
Belgium Euthanasia: Going Up and Under Reported
By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC This is what happens when a country jumps off a vertical moral cliff. First, the euthanasia numbers are climbing dramatically. From the story: Last year, 700 official cases of euthanasia … Continue reading
Stealth Legislation to Federally Fund Human Cloning
By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Embryonic stem cells aren’t much in the news these days. President Bush’s embryonic stem cell funding restrictions are history and the invention of induced pluripotent stem cells may allow scientists … Continue reading
Nearly as Many Life Terminations Without Consent as Voluntary Euthanasia Deaths in Flanders
By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Flemish doctors not only admit to killing patients who have not requested to be euthanized, but the levels of such terminations without request or consent are barely under the rate … Continue reading
“The Humanist Case Against Euthanasia”
By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Pro assisted suiciders often claim that the only reasons to oppose euthanasia/self mercy killing are religious. They will claim that opponents see suffering as “redemptive” and thus desirable–intentionally misstating that … Continue reading
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Compassion and Choices In No Place to Judge Online Suicide Assistance
By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC There is an awful story about a suicide obsessed man named William F. Melchert-Dinkel, who allegedly helped counsel and teach the suicidal–including a Canadian college girl–to do the deed over … Continue reading