Blog

This Week in Bioethics #116

Thumbnail image for This Week in Bioethics #116

1. Kickstarter Update   Thank you to all those who have given to our Kickstarter campaign. It has been so encouraging to see so many people giving to our project! We are thrilled. As of this writing, we have just hit $5,961, 47%, from 41 backers! Thank you! We are so very thankful for your […]

Share
+1
Stumble
Share
Pin
Read the full article →

Help Us Take on #BigFertility, Help Us Finish Kelly’s Story

#BigFertility: It's All About the Money

We’re finishing our new film telling the story of Kelly’s surrogacies, and we need your help to push it across the finish line. Kelly’s story exemplifies everything that’s wrong with surrogacy. She loved being pregnant and helping others, but as a surrogate mother, #BigFertility lied to her, lied about her, used her, exploited her, and nearly […]

Share
+1
Stumble
Share
Pin
Read the full article →

This Week in Bioethics #115

Thumbnail image for This Week in Bioethics #115

Normally we feature five stories from the world of bioethics, but this week we have just one story. And it’s a big one. We’re releasing the first teaser trailer for our new film #BigFertility. And we’re running a Kickstarter campaign to push the film across the finish line and out into the world. Here’s our […]

Share
+1
Stumble
Share
Pin
Read the full article →

On the Profession and Practice of Medicine

Farr Curlin, M.D.

Remarks by Farr Curlin, M.D., at the 2018 Paul Ramsey Award Dinner March 24, 2018 Receiving the Ramsey Award is a delight, an honor, and a privilege. It’s humbling to receive this award and to be here with you tonight. In particular, I thank Jennifer for her long and faithful service in the same direction, and for […]

Share
+1
Stumble
Share
Pin
Read the full article →

This Week in Bioethics #114

Thumbnail image for This Week in Bioethics #114

1. New Jersey Legalizes Commercial Gestational Surrogacy Sadly, NJ Gov. Murphy has signed into law S482, which authorizes gestational carrier agreements. We’ve been following this bill closely for several months. We know that many, many people worked tirelessly to oppose the bill and to encourage Gov. Murphy to veto it. This is a major disappointment. […]

Share
+1
Stumble
Share
Pin
Read the full article →

This Week in Bioethics #113

Thumbnail image for This Week in Bioethics #113

***Watch our live discussion of This Week in Bioethics on Facebook or on YouTube*** 1. Nightmare Surrogacy Experience Toni, a surrogate mother from Iowa, says of her experience: “It’s been a nightmare. It has almost destroyed my family.” Toni first reached out to us about this time last year. This week, she and Jennifer recorded […]

Share
+1
Stumble
Share
Pin
Read the full article →

This Week in Bioethics #112

Thumbnail image for This Week in Bioethics #112

1. David vs. Goliath We are very close to finishing our latest film! We have the story nailed down and edited, we’re working on adding in all the b-roll, then we’ll be recording Jennifer’s narration, finalizing the edits, cutting the trailers, developing the full slate of marketing materials, and more. In this film we are […]

Share
+1
Stumble
Share
Pin
Read the full article →

Taking on Big Fertility David vs. Goliath Style!

David and Goliath

Raise your hand if you can’t believe how fast 2018 is flying by! As I write, it’s almost May, nearly halfway through the year—wow how time flies. I’m just back from speaking at Harvard Law School, and the students there were very busy with final papers and end of year exams. Of course, this was […]

Share
+1
Stumble
Share
Pin
Read the full article →

This Week in Bioethics #111

Thumbnail image for This Week in Bioethics #111

1. Surrogacy and Infant Mental Health Our friends at #StopSurrogacyNow this week published an extremely important new article by a Spanish Perinatal Psychiatrist. It outlines a number of ways in which surrogacy affects children. Children born by surrogacy are exposed to a series of factors that can have serious repercussions for their mental and physical […]

Share
+1
Stumble
Share
Pin
Read the full article →

Mommy Deployment: Military Wives as Surrogates

Thumbnail image for Mommy Deployment: Military Wives as Surrogates

A Guest Post by K. Blaine, MS, BSN, RN  Editor’s Note: With news that President Trump has signed an executive order encouraging federal agencies to hire more military spouses, this guest post by our friend K. is even more relevant. It helps provide context to the situation in which many military spouses find themselves, a […]

Share
+1
Stumble
Share
Pin
Read the full article →

Celebrate Jennifer!

Thumbnail image for Celebrate Jennifer!

Today Jennifer turns 60. She has worked tirelessly since she founded The Center for Bioethics and Culture 18 years ago. It’s not just a matter that the CBC wouldn’t be what it is without her—the CBC would not even exist if not for Jennifer, her idea to launch a bioethics center, and her hard work […]

Share
+1
Stumble
Share
Pin
Read the full article →

This Week in Bioethics #110

Thumbnail image for This Week in Bioethics #110

1. Update on New Jersey and New York As I write, we’re waiting to hear whether New Jersey Governor Murphy is going to sign the surrogacy-enabling legislation on his desk. Meanwhile, hearings are scheduled in New York for later this month on a bill seeking to legalize surrogacy in the Empire State. We are keeping […]

Share
+1
Stumble
Share
Pin
Read the full article →

Surrogacy on TV

Thumbnail image for Surrogacy on TV

The software that runs our website this morning alerted me that an article from the website xtremetechnews.tech had published an article that linked to our issue page on Surrogacy. So of course I clicked through to read the article entitled “‘Roseanne,’ ‘Handmaid’s Tale,’ ‘Superstore,’ and more Take Baby Steps to Examine Surrogacy on TV.” It […]

Share
+1
Stumble
Share
Pin
Read the full article →

This Week in Bioethics #109

Thumbnail image for This Week in Bioethics #109

1. Mark Your Calendars And save the date. One year from today — Saturday, April 27, 2019 — will be the next Paul Ramsey Award Dinner. This is the earliest we’ve ever announced the date, but we want to be sure that as many people as possible are able to attend. Let’s pack the place […]

Share
+1
Stumble
Share
Pin
Read the full article →

What Do We Owe Children?

Thumbnail image for What Do We Owe Children?

In working on a writing project yesterday, I came across an issue of the journal Ethics & Medicine from 2014, which had an editorial piece entitled “Shouldn’t Children Want Parents of Their Own?” The article, which was written by former CBC board member C. Ben Mitchell, was sparked by a lecture in which professor Margaret […]

Share
+1
Stumble
Share
Pin
Read the full article →

How Did We Get Here?

Thumbnail image for How Did We Get Here?

Our friends at #StopSurrogacyNow have just published another excellent review of Renate Klein’s terrific little book Surrogacy: A Human Rights Violation. The reviewer, University of Texas journalism professor Robert Jensen, writes as a man who embraces radical feminism, and he reads Klein’s book looking to understand how we got here. “How did we get to the […]

Share
+1
Stumble
Share
Pin
Read the full article →

This Week in Bioethics #108

Thumbnail image for This Week in Bioethics #108

1. Is Commercial Gestational Surrogacy Coming to New Jersey? New Jersey’s “gestational carrier bill,” a/k/a “rent-a-womb,” which was twice vetoed by Governor Christie, has again passed both houses of the New Jersey legislature. It is waiting on Governor Murphy’s desk for his signature or veto. Our friends at #StopSurrogacyNow unpack the situation, explaining why and […]

Share
+1
Stumble
Share
Pin
Read the full article →

Surrogacy: No Laughing Matter

Thumbnail image for Surrogacy: No Laughing Matter

Surrogacy is no April Fools’ joke. It’s no laughing matter at all. It’s a big business that exploits, uses, abuses, preys on, and commodifies women. It turns children into products to be designed, selected, and purchased, while it profits handsomely. And it is willing to fight like mad to protect its moneyed interests.  On April […]

Share
+1
Stumble
Share
Pin
Read the full article →

← Previous Entries