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Tag Archives: reckless IVF
New Documentary Eggsploitation Reveals the Infertility Industry’s Dirty Little Secret
For Immediate Release Film Presents the Hidden Dangers, Health Risks, and Exploitation of Young Women Through Egg Donation NEW YORK, NY/July 28, 2010 – The infertility industry has a dirty little secret that is dressed in deceptive advertising, large monetary … Continue reading
I Have a Right to a Baby Girl! Using IVF for Sex Selection
By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC One of the big stories today in Australia is of a Melbourne woman who has announced that she is traveling to Thailand to have sex selection IVF because it is … Continue reading
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Tagged IVF, reckless IVF, reproductive tech, Reproductive Tourism, sex selection
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Using IVF to Delay Parenthood
By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Those who objected to IVF (before my time) on the basis that the technology would not be limited to helping infertile, married couples conceive, were laughed off as scare mongers. … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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. … Continue reading
IVF Abuse Illustrates Urgent Need For Developing Culture of Self Restraint
By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC We are quickly becoming an entitlement culture that increasingly refuses to set self limits and presumes the right to harness technology to get us what we want–no matter how destructive … Continue reading
Deducting Face Lifts in Brazil Devolves Medicine Into Mere Life Style Enablers
By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC I worry about the devolution of medicine from a healing profession into a lifestyle, on demand, technocratic enabling guild. We see it all around us. Octomom, for example, wasn’t infertile. … Continue reading
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Tagged Brazil, cosmetic surgery, Medicine, octumom, plastic surgery, reckless IVF
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Experience of an Anonymous Egg Donor
I volunteered to harvest eggs for a friend, whose ovaries had ceased producing eggs in her early 30’s. She bought donated sperm from a California university sperm bank several years prior to my egg harvest and was being counseled about … Continue reading
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Tagged egg donation, Egg Donors, eggs, eggsploitation, IVF, reckless IVF, reproductive tech
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Thinking About Donating Your Eggs? Think Again
Egg donation is risky business. But unlike other high-risk jobs that offer appropriate compensation for the dangers (e.g., skyscraper window washing), the egg donation process is inherently risky, from beginning to end. What are those risks? Stroke, organ failure, infection, … Continue reading
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Tagged egg donation, Egg Donors, eggs, eggsploitation, IVF, IVY League Egg Donors, reckless IVF, scnt
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Octumom Doctor Faces the Music
Fertility doctor, Michael Kamrava, responsible for the Octuplet births of Nadya Suleman in 2009 has finally been accused of gross negligence by the California Medical Board. Kamrava was already expelled from membership with the American Society of Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) … Continue reading