December 2011

Wishing You and Your Family a Happy New Year

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Should Doctors Tell the Non Terminal Elderly When They Will Die?

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC I find it odd that learned medical commentators would think that octogenarians and nonagenarians would not be aware that their time is growing short. Of course they do! Should doctors discuss what elderly patients want in terms of end of life treatment and extensive procedures [...]

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IVF Clinics Supply Embryos For Destructive Research Without Consent of Egg Donors

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC When a woman donates her eggs for one purpose — to help another woman have a child — is it right and ethical to instead use embryos made from her gametes for destructive research without her knowledge or consent? A survey of IVF clinics has [...]

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From the Frying Pan to the Fire

Only four days left of 2011! This has been an amazing year of growth and stretching for the Center for Bioethics and Culture team. As I review all that has happened over the last 12 months, I am a bit overwhelmed and very grateful. It seems like momentum is growing and opportunities to engage are [...]

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From the Frying Pan to the Fire

Only four days left of 2011! This has been an amazing year of growth and stretching for the Center for Bioethics and Culture team. As I review all that has happened over the last 12 months, I am a bit overwhelmed and very grateful. It seems like momentum is growing and opportunities to engage are [...]

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Merry Christmas

During this time of giving, we are especially thankful for what we have received from you: your friendship, your support, and your interest in and commitment to our work. We pray that you and your family will have a blessed weekend celebrating Christmas. Merry Christmas from the Board of Directors and Staff of the Center [...]

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Baby Boomer Values Behind Culture of Death?

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC As a Baby Boomer, I have to say I am very disappointed in my generation. We thought we were so different and special. Perhaps we were, but not in the unremittingly beneficial way we thought. We did raise the stock in hubris though, so there [...]

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Comatose Man Not Really “Poised to Be an Organ Donor”

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC I bring this up because it is getting some mistaken play in the blogosphere. An apparently unconscious man was awake and aware after surgery. Great news, but why is that a national story? Because ABC more than intimated he was about to become an organ [...]

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Merry Christmas

During this time of giving, we are especially thankful for what we have received from you: your friendship, your support, and your interest in and commitment to our work. We pray that you and your family will have a blessed weekend celebrating Christmas. Merry Christmas from the Board of Directors and Staff of the Center [...]

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Lead Into Gold: IPSCs Continue to Amaze

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Another breakthrough was announced by Stanford scientists using induced pluripotent stem cells. From the press release: Stanford University School of Medicine investigators have shown that iPS cells, viewed as a possible alternative to human embryonic stem cells, can mirror the defining defects of a genetic [...]

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