Money Changes Everything
By Jennifer Lahl, CBC President When the news broke that Mitt and Ann Romney welcomed grandchildren numbers 17 and 18 this past Friday via “gestational surrogacy,” those of us here at CBC central—who oppose...
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Transhumanism’s Mission to Create Ubermenchen Children is Coercive
By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Reason magazine’s science writer, Ron Bailey, has long been in the thrall of transhumanism. (We debated once at CUNY). He has swallowed the immortality project...
Read MoreThe Joy of Parenting Children with Down Syndrome
By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Prenatal genetic testing has turned into a search and destroy eugenic abortion mission that targets fetuses with Down syndrome, dwarfism, and other genetic conditions....
Read MoreThe 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,...
Read MorePlanned Premature Birth Another Sign of Procreation as Manufacture
By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Reproduction, we are now told, is a fundamental right. That sounds good. We don’t want government preventing people from having children. But under this theory, the right...
Read MoreConsuming Children: Humanity=Artifact
I recently attended a debate between Wesley J. Smith and Gregory Stock. Our CBC staffer, Evan Rosa has a great write up you can read in its entirety here.Evan writes, “The match-up for this event: Wesley Smith, bioethics...
Read MoreWanted: Another deaf child
Here’s a story in the UK Guardian about a deaf couple who have a deaf daughter. They now want a second child, but because of the mother’s age (she’s in her early 40’s) they think they may need to resort...
Read MoreWanted: Someone to Play God
Nancy Gibbs over at Time Magazine has a good piece out on IVF. She says a lot of the things I’ve been saying and writing about for years. Like:Gibbs – “It’s a good thing that most doctors are principled...
Read MoreXX is for Girls and XY is for Boys
What would you say if I told you that biologists are working to make female cells turn into sperm and male cells turn into eggs ? Perhaps you’d tell me I’ve been reading too much National Enquirer? Maybe you’d...
Read MoreDeaf demand right to designer deaf children
Well Lord have mercy. Joining the list of children we want and children we don’t want is the on going battle for the ‘right’ to create deaf children. Of course this has already happened more than once in the...
Read MoreGay couples in Australia head to US for designer babies
And in particular, they are coming to California!”In Australia it’s getting harder and harder to get egg donors and surrogacy is just not allowed. They have no options, so they look around and basically if...
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