June 2010

NHS Meltdown: Massive Cuts Loom as UK May Give Free IVF for Menopausal Women

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Good grief. The Telegraph is warning of terrible slashing cuts in the NHS budget. From the story: The NHS is suffering potentially devastating cuts to jobs and patient services as the Government’s austerity drive hits the health service, doctors’ leaders have warned. Thousands of doctors [...]

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Tasmania To Try and Legalize Euthanasia: Guess I’ll Have to Go

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC The Australian state of Tasmania is expected to have a bill introduced to legalize euthanasia. From the story: The Tasmanian Government is hoping its voluntary euthanasia legislation will be ready by the end of next year. The Attorney General last week announced she will use [...]

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Wrong IVF Embryos Implanted Leads to End of Once Wanted Life

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC This just makes my head explode. A woman was implanted with the wrong embryos, and rather than honor another woman’s children and let them live, immediately terminated the pregnancy process. From the story: A woman who sought help from a prominent Connecticut fertility center last [...]

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Lawsuit Proceeds to Stop Federal Funding of ESCR

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC I had heard that a case against funding was contemplated against the NIH’s new embryonic stem cell funding rules, but wasn’t aware that it had actually been filed. It had, and was apparently dismissed. But a court of appeals has reinstated the case. From the [...]

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Reducing OHSS

By Jennifer Lahl, CBC National Director I don’t have access to this article but I do find this curious given how much we wish to ignore the health risks posed to young otherwise healthy women who we want to “donate” their eggs. OHSS is a very real and risky syndrome associated with egg donation procedures [...]

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No Appeal on CT Court Refusal to Redefine Assisted Suicide

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Compassion and Choices has decided not to appeal their ridiculous lawsuit that sought to legalize assisted suicide by redefining it as “aid in dying.” From the story: In a statement Thursday, Kathryn Tucker, an attorney for the plaintiffs, said the decision not to appeal was [...]

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Media Incompetence: No, German Court Did Not Legalize Assisted Suicide!

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC The media are generally terrible about using proper terms to describe controversial issues. Example, when Michael Vick abused the dogs, it was labeled an animal rights case, when animal rights is an ideology, not a matter of being nicer to animals or protecting them from [...]

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Assisted Suicide Clinic Entrepreneur License to Practice Medicine Suspended

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Awww. Dr, Stuart–Big Heart–Weisberg, who wants to open up an assisted suicide clinic in which one can off themselves to the strains of beautiful music with Weisberg and his therapy dog at their sides for $5,000, has had his license to practice suspended. From the [...]

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Sense of Entitlement: “Beautiful” Sperm and Eggs for Sale

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC This bit of Entiltement News is not a new phenomenon, but illustrates the eugenics core that lies at the heart of facilitated reproduction. A sperm/egg bank has opened offering gametes of beautiful people for sale. From the story The Beautiful Baby service – which is [...]

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Oregon Psychiatrist Goes Into The Death With Dignity Business–Charges $1200 to Attend Death

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Absolutely disgusting. I wrote yesterday about a Portland psychiatrist named Stuart Weisberg, Ph.D., LLC (limited liability corporation), who plans to set up an assisted suicide clinic called euphemistically Dignity House. Apparently, Dr. Big Heart plans to do much more than that. He is going into [...]

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