September 1st, 2010
With the news and subsequent fall-out from Judge Royce Lamberth’s decision that the current administration’s policy, which allows federal funds to be used in embryonic stem cell research, violates the Dickey-Wicker Amendment, there has been much outrage that this research has come to a grinding halt. Let the rhetoric wars and hyperbole contests begin!
Bold headlines, like, “Forget Stem Cell Cures for a Generation” and that Lamberth’s decision was, “disappointingly bad” have been tempered by those claiming private funding is the best way to advance and sustain research, since those who invest will reap any financial benefits from cures. It is interesting to note that a new poll just out, shows 57% of Americans oppose taxpayer funding of embryonic stem cell research. … Read the rest of this entry »
August 26th, 2010
By Chuck Colson, Founder, BreakPoint
You’ve probably seen them—most of us have. Ads soliciting women to donate their eggs for in vitro fertilization are everywhere: in newspapers, on the Internet, on college campus bulletin boards.
Most people don’t even think twice about it. An opportunity for young women to earn a little cash and do something nice for an infertile couple, and it’s all supervised by doctors. What could be wrong with that?
Plenty, according to a new documentary. Eggsploitation, a film produced by the Center for Bioethics and Culture, tears down the façade to show the dark side of egg donation. … Read the rest of this entry »
August 24th, 2010
By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC
Colonialism of nations is dead, but a new form of resource hegemony is a-borning. Rather than exploiting commodities such as copper deposits and timber forests, the new colonialism is biological, seeking to mine living human bodies. Thus, we see rich westerners buying kidneys from destitute Pakistanis and Turks. Worse, livers and other vital organs in China are purchased for huge sums despite the purchasers knowing that the “donor” was almost surely tissue typed and killed so he could “donate” his body parts. … Read the rest of this entry »
