January 2011

Eggsploitation Named Best Documentary

San Ramon, CA, January 31, 2011 — Eggsploitation has been named Best Documentary in the 2011 California Independent Film Festival Slate Awards. The award was announced as part of the Gala Slate Awards Luncheon held on January 30 in Walnut Creek, CA. The 13th annual California Independent Film Festival runs from January 28 to February [...]

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Eggsploitation Named Best Documentary

San Ramon, CA, January 31, 2011 — Eggsploitation has been named Best Documentary in the 2011 California Independent Film Festival Slate Awards. The award was announced as part of the Gala Slate Awards Luncheon held on January 30 in Walnut Creek, CA. The 13th annual California Independent Film Festival runs from January 28 to February [...]

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Dutch Suicide Advocates Set Up Clinic of Death

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC The Netherlands is a lovely country where many people have eschewed true compassion — the root meaning of which is to “suffer with” — to promote suicide as the answer to human difficulty. Euthanasia is available via lethal injection for the terminally ill, the chronically [...]

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The Infertility Industry’s Dirty Little Secret . . .

. . . Not So Secret Anymore We continue to be encouraged by the interest Eggsploitation is generating and the feedback it’s receiving. It is an Official Selection of the 2011 California Independent Film Festival and has been nominated for Best Documentary in their Slate Awards. Rebecca Hagelin penned an op-ed in The Washington Times [...]

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The Infertility Industry’s Dirty Little Secret . . .

. . . Not So Secret Anymore We continue to be encouraged by the interest Eggsploitation is generating and the feedback it’s receiving. It is an Official Selection of the 2011 California Independent Film Festival and has been nominated for Best Documentary in their Slate Awards.Rebecca Hagelin penned an op-ed in The Washington Times calling [...]

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Mixed Messages on Suicide Prevention in Vermont

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC The Burlington Free Press has a front page story today on suicide prevention. From the story: Vermont school administrators, guidance counselors and teachers routinely receive training on how to prevent teen suicides, but mental health experts say even with intervention, not every life can be [...]

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The True Cost of Egg Donation

By Matthew Eppinette, CBC New Media Manager After viewing Eggsploitation, Mary Rice Hasson did some research on egg donation and IVF. What she found led her to post a provocative article at Mercator.net making the case that when it comes to egg donation, “A pretense of altruism cloaks the mercenary and exploitative reality of this [...]

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Belgian Doctors Harvesting Organs From Disabled Euthanasia Donors

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Back when I first got into this line of work, I wrote a piece for Newsweek about the dangers of euthanasia consciousness. I was a naif at the time. I had no idea how insidiously seductive the culture of death could be nor how deeply [...]

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Colorado Legislator Drops “Presumed Consent” Organ “Donation” Proposal

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC As good intentioned as this proposal is, presumed consent for organ donations will just not fly in the USA — as I stated in my earlier post about the then pending Colorado proposal. Now, it has been dropped. Good. Let’s focus on encouraging more people [...]

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Vermont Assisted Suicide Bill the Usual Loophole Scam

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC American assisted suicide activists pretend that legalization is to be strictly controlled. But the legislation they propose — and the laws they pass — contain loopholes big enough for a hearse to drive through. Latest example, the upcoming bill in Vermont to legalize physician-prescribed death. [...]

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