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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 incentives and appeals to altruism. Using these tactics, the industry targets young, vulnerable women for a precious [...]
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New Documentary Eggsploitation Reveals the Infertility Industry’s Dirty Little Secret
Wesley J. Smith, Special Consultant to the CBC, on Loan to Australia
By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC
I am in Sydney Airport waiting for the first leg of an 18 hour trip home. I thought I would reflect on the last two very busy and intense weeks, and what I hope was accomplished.
The last time I was asked to tour Australia, in [...]
The Eggsploited: When Two Markets Collide
By Jennifer Lahl, CBC National Director
Louise Brown was born in the United Kingdom on July 25, 1978, the world’s first test-tube baby, conceived by in vitro fertilization (IVF).
Just five years later in Australia, fertility doctors used the first donor egg in an IVF procedure. Since then, IVF technologies have been accepted almost entirely without criticism [...]
A Review of Splice
By Matthew Eppinette, CBC New Media Manager
Splice is a science fiction / horror film about genetic experimentation gone wrong. Clive and Elsa (Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley) are scientists working to combine strands of DNA from multiple animals to create a new organism that will generate proteins aimed at curing animal diseases. Achieving [...]
Presumptuous Consent
By Jennifer Lahl, CBC National Director
Since organ donation became the recommended treatment of choice for many patients with end-stage organ failure, the controversy over the number of available organs for transplant and the solutions to addressing the shortage of much needed organs for those on waiting lists has been an on-going discussion. Proposed solutions [...]
Regulate Synthetic Life Science While the Horse is Still in the Barn
By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC
The media was all atwitter a few weeks ago when scientists announced that they had created synthetic life. Technically, that isn’t true—if by synthetic life one means creating life out of non life. Rather, scientists took a living bacterium, removed its genetic content, and replaced it [...]
Be a Part of CBC’s 10th Anniversary Celebration
Dear Friends,
2010 marks the tenth anniversary of the CBC! We are preparing for some special projects and events throughout the year to commemorate this exciting milestone, and we need your help now more than ever.
We will be holding a party and silent auction on September 25, 2010, with very special CBC guests present for you [...]
eggsploitation ::: summer 2010
The infertility industry in the United States has grown to a multi-billion dollar business. What is its main commodity? Human eggs. Young women all over the world are solicited by ads — via college campus bulletin boards, social media, online classifieds — offering up to $100,000 for their “donated” eggs, to “help make someone’s dream [...]
Stealth Legislation to Federally Fund Human Cloning
By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC
Embryonic stem cells aren’t much in the news these days. President Bush’s embryonic stem cell funding restrictions are history and the invention of induced pluripotent stem cells may allow scientists to obtain the benefits of embryonic stem cells without destroying embryos.
But that doesn’t mean the [...]
Humans Anonymous
By C. Ben Mitchell, PhD, CBC Board Member and Graves Professor of Moral Philosophy at Union University in Jackson, TN
Hello. My name is Ben and I’m a speciesist, a member of Humans Anonymous. I confess that I’m addicted to the human species, and that I am uncontrollably addicted to being human myself. Furthermore, I have [...]
