March 2011

Media Bias as Idaho Senate Passes Bill Formally Outlawing Assisted Suicide

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Splendid. From the story: After a sober and emotional debate, the Idaho Senate on Friday passed a bill making assisted suicide a felony punishable by 5 years in prison on a 31-2 vote Friday. But note, if you hit the link, how the story focuses […]

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Embryonic Stem Cell Derivation Process Not Patentable, European Court Rules

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC For all the faux screaming about Bush — which was mostly pure politics — the real financial impediment to ESCR has been the patenting question. And now, the European Court of Justice has dealt a body blow to the sector. From the story: The European […]

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UK Prosecutors Abandon Vulnerable Disabled to Assisted Suicide/Consented Murder by Families

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Shades of the Kevorkian anarchy. In the UK, a husband put a plastic bags over the head of his wife, then piped in gas to make her die, and because she consented, law enforcement does nothing. From the story: Michael Bateman put a bag over […]

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Futile Care: Teenager Forced Off Life Support Survives to Tell the Tale

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC This would have been a bigger story in the USA where patients still have the right to fight these things. In New Zealand, doctors forced a badly injured teenager — Kimberly McNeill, center in the photo at left — off of life support. But contrary […]

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The New Eugenics: Selecting for Intelligence — Or, What’s Love Got to do With It, Julian Savulescu?

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Eugenics is both profoundly wrong and extremely dangerous in that it divides human beings into better and worse categories, which leads to great evil; oppression, exploitation, and killing. We saw that with the first eugenics, invented by the English statistician Francis Galton, who posited a […]

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New York Times Conned by Condemned Organ Donor Con Man?

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC The other day, I posted a critique of a commentary published in the New York Times by a condemned prisoner from Oregon who says he wants to donate his organs after execution. I realized that in his supposed “guilt,” he hadn’t bothered to mention the […]

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Urethras Grown From Patients’ Own Bladder Cells

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC They just keep on rolling. Scientists have used cells from patients’ own bodies to build new urethras. From the story: The boys were ages 10 to 14 at the time of the surgery. Three were accident victims, and the other two had suffered failures of […]

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Condemned Prisoners Should Not Be Able to Donate Organs After Execution

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC We have discussed the drive within bioethics and transplant medicine to kill and harvest organs from people in a persistently unconscious condition. We have discussed how euthanasia and organ donation are now coupled in Belgium. And we have discussed how Jack Kevorkian, before turning to […]

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Baby Breeding 101: Business Busted

By Jennifer Lahl, CBC President There seems to be no end to the filthy bottom of the reproductive tourist trafficking industry. This story just broke, covering the bust up of a baby breeding surrogacy ring. Fourteen Vietnamese women had their passports confiscated and were being held in two houses while they gestated babies which were […]

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Baby Breeding 101: Business Busted

By Jennifer Lahl, CBC President There seems to be no end to the filthy bottom of the reproductive tourist trafficking industry. This story just broke, covering the bust up of a baby breeding surrogacy ring. Fourteen Vietnamese women had their passports confiscated and were being held in two houses while they gestated babies which were […]

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Immigrant Family Forced to Watch Mother Dehydrated to Death

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Since when is keeping the desire to keep one’s mother nourished grounds for removing them from a say in her medical decision making? When an immigrant family wants their mother to receive a feeding tube and the hospital no longer wants to be on the […]

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Human Breast Milk Ice Cream a Sign of Coup de Culture

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC I have written from time to time of what I call the coup de culture, which I define as an ongoing drive that seeks to shift society away from a value system based on Judeo/Christian moral philosophy — different from faith — based on human […]

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WJS, Final Exit Network, and Hospice Professionals on the Radio: “What is a ‘Death With Dignity’?”

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC I did an hour radio interview on the Regina Brett Show, WKSU in Ohio, about so-called death with dignity. A representative of the assisted suicide advocacy group Final Exit Network also appeared, along with two hospice professionals, also appeared on the program. If you are […]

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“Savior Siblings” Start Us Down Harrowing Ethical Path

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC A baby was born in France because his parents wanted to use his umbilical cord stem cells to treat the genetic disease of their existing children. From the story: France’s first so-called “saviour sibling” was born in a hospital in the Parisian suburb of Clamart […]

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Upcoming Eggsploitation Screenings

March 14 @ 6:00 PM Eggsploitation Screening Loyola Marymount University Free and open to the public University Hall ECC 1857 1 LMU Drive Los Angeles, CA March 15 @ 7:00 PM Eggsploitation Screening Azusa Pacific University Free and open to the public West Campus Felix Event Center VIP Room 700 W. Foothill Azusa, CA March […]

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