By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBCMy, how time flies. It seems only yesterday that I issued my predictions for 2010. That turned out pretty well. But the prediction business is never done. Time marches on, after all, and eventually old predictions become about as interesting as yesterday’s newspaper.So, once again and [...]
The support many of you have offered the CBC over the past ten years has been remarkable. I often reflect on the amazing opportunities your efforts have made possible: conferences, lectures, debates, films, political advocacy, working with groups all around the world—the CBC has continually stood firm for human dignity throughout a decade of biotechnological [...]
Dear Friends,On behalf of the Board of Directors and Staff at the Center for Bioethics and Culture Network, we wish you and your family a wonderful Thanksgiving.We at the CBC have much to give thanks for. First, we thank each and everyone of our readers for your faithful commitment to our mission to defend human [...]
November 17, 2010 — San Ramon, CA — The Paul Ramsey Award nomination committee is pleased to announce Luke Gormally as the 2011 recipient of the Paul Ramsey Award for excellence in bioethics. Professor Gormally is a leading British bioethicist and was the first Research Officer and long-time Director of The Linacre Centre. More recently, [...]
By Evan Rosa, CBC Communications DirectorReviewed: Progress in Bioethics: Science, Policy and Politics, Jonathan D. Moreno and Sam Berger, eds., The MIT Press, 2010“The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.” (G.K. Chesterton, Fancies Versus Fads)Political science, for [...]
CBC’s Jennifer Lahl and Wesley J. Smith are occasional writers for ToTheSource.org. Recently ToTheSource interviewed Jennifer.To The Source: How did you become interested in egg donation? What brought this to your attention?Jennifer Lahl: I became interested in it as a broader issue within the various reproductive technologies. I’ve been writing and speaking on reproductive technology [...]
By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBCI am rarely encouraged by news out of Oregon about assisted suicide, where doctors may legally prescribe a lethal overdose to patients they diagnose as terminally ill. Over the years, the number of assisted suicides has increased, while the media studiously ignored studies demonstrating that abuses [...]
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2010 has been awarded to Robert G. Edwards for the development of in vitro fertilization (IVF). Edwards is part of the famous Patrick Steptoe and Robert Edwards duo, who were partners in the lab for years, trying to fertilize a human egg and thus create an embryo [...]
Dear Friends,Our tenth year has been a busy one! We are excited to announce the successful August 9, 2010 release of the CBC’s second documentary, Eggsploitation. We have been fighting the exploitation of women by egg ‘donation’ for some time, and as more and more states are considering egg donation legislation, the timing of our [...]
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