The Center for Bioethics and Culture (CBC) addresses bioethical issues that most profoundly affect our humanity, especially issues that arise in the lives of the most vulnerable among us. Assisted suicide and euthanasia threaten those who are weak and vulnerable at the end of their lives. Young women are encouraged to participate in egg donation without being properly informed of the potential health risks. Thousands of embryos are destroyed for speculative research.
Science and medicine do not always apply human-life-affirming standards. The current trend, in fact, is toward the utilitarian commoditization of life. We seek both to challenge and work with those who influence our culture in order to advance a morally responsible science that protects human life, respects human dignity, recognizes the inherent value of all of humanity, celebrates the beauty and complexity of life, and promotes human flourishing and the common good.
The CBC works through a variety of media platforms—documentary film, writing, speaking, interviews in mainstream media, and new media platforms.
The issues CBC addresses may be categorized as:
Taking Life
– Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia
– Stem Cell Research
– Fetal Genetic Testing
Making Life
– Artificial Reproductive Technologies
– Donor conception
– Egg Donation
– Surrogacy
Faking Life
– Human Cloning
– Human Enhancement
– Transhumanism
The CBC exists to:
– challenge and work with those who influence our culture
– advance morally responsible science that
- protects human life,
- respects human dignity,
- recognizes the inherent value of all of humanity,
- celebrates the beauty and complexity of life
- promotes human flourishing and the common good
The CBC’s ultimate goal is to create a culture in which medicine and biotechnology serve a truly human future
By working with key influencers and decision makers, the CBC seeks to change the bioethical landscape and promote wholly and truly human progress, progress that is protective of human life and that promotes human flourishing and the common good. Such progress will result only from a positive and human-affirming cultural conscience in science, medicine, and public policy.
The Center for Bioethics and Culture is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization
From our Blog
CBC is about shedding light on the bioethics issues within our culture that most profoundly affect our humanity — especially among the most vulnerable. We are increasingly aware that to accomplish this we need to challenge those who influence our culture to advance a morally responsible science that respects the inherent value of humanity and that celebrates its beauty and complexity.
