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- Organ procurement networks should never go beyond the scope of the consent given, but even if the procurement was... http://t.co/5g3XuHJT about 4 hours ago
- This ad won the Grand Clio (Film) last night -- the advertising world's highest honor. The story in the ad turns... http://t.co/5R44ScTZ about 5 hours ago
- Good for the prosecutors for bringing this case... http://t.co/N8g1fRqT 01:46:47 AM May 16, 2012
- The last six weeks have been packed with both new opportunities and challenges. You are helping to sustain me.... http://t.co/5oFJXy5x 08:54:51 PM May 15, 2012
- The latest egg scheme -- grandparents paying for egg freezing... http://t.co/EUeTnFx2 12:14:06 AM May 15, 2012
- It's almost as if the UK is borrowing a page from the US IVF industry: "The commercially driven industry uses... http://t.co/QS0nH2bG 09:22:07 PM May 14, 2012
- Wesley follows up the Canadian Futile Care case (see link below) with more information on Futile Care Theory.... http://t.co/gpr3WFDR 04:38:05 PM May 14, 2012
- These days, “standard of care” too often isn’t about the benefit of the “patient” but cost to society and... http://t.co/YBfnqlKG 06:01:38 PM May 11, 2012
- Wesley Smith reacts to a suggestion that bioethicists are "sorely needed in every area of public policy." What's... http://t.co/ScC0jemS 05:14:59 PM May 10, 2012
- The West increasingly has no shame http://t.co/q8dvithP http://t.co/DBBbCiMH 05:14:31 PM May 07, 2012
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Author Archives: The CBC
Biological Eugenic Colonialism
By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Our sense of entitlement — including not only to have a child, but the child we want — is driving us to ever greater extremes. The Daily Mail has a … Continue reading
Consumerist Reproduction
By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC A Canadian pundit named Kelly McParland has a good critique of how IVF has devolved procreation into consumerist reproduction. He writes in reaction to an American IVF clinic advertising sex … Continue reading
That Unrepentant Bigotry
By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC I have a piece out in the Human Life Review decrying the “unrepentant bigotry” that allows people with profound disabilities to be denegrated as “skin bags” (as one example), or … Continue reading
Posted in disability, end of life, eugenics
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National Advance Medical Planning Day: Pushing People to Say “No”
By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Today is National Sign an Advance Directive Day, or something like that. And the stories are out trying to stimulate us to action. As I have noticed when proposals to … Continue reading
Tiny, Happy People
By C. Ben Mitchell, Ph.D., CBC Board Member Just when you think you have heard it all, someone pushes the envelope. According to three ethicists writing in the journal Ethics, Policy and the Environment, because geoengineering might be too risky … Continue reading
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Quebec Short Shrifts Senior Care As Euthanasia Pushed
By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC It never ceases to amaze me how people fail to connect dots. In recent weeks, we’ve seen a big push to legalize euthansia in Quebec. Yet, as a medical advisory … Continue reading
Rewarding Biological Colonialism
By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC We shouldn’t always get what we want — particularly when it comes at the cost of exploiting the world’s destitute or taking advantage of despotic circumstances to benefit personally. But … Continue reading
Posted in organ selling, surrogacy
Tagged Biological Colonialism, organ selling, surrogacy
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Reproductive Coercion and the New Eugenics
By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Bioedge published a good article this week discussing the claim by some bioethicists that parents be required to use pre-implantation genetic diagnosis to eradicate unwanted heritable conditions. From “Parents Have … Continue reading
Posted in eugenics, PGD, reproductive tech
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Ding Dong, VT Assisted Suicide Bill Dead
By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC I predicted the outcome in my annual predictions: VT has killed the assisted suicide bill. From the Burlington Free Press story: For nearly two hours Thursday afternoon, the Vermont Senate … Continue reading
Pluripotent Stem Cells? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Pluripotent Stem Cells
By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Yes,the headline is hyperbole, but scientists may be closing in on a method of “direct reprogramming” that could change one type of cell into another without first going through the … Continue reading
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