March 2006

CBC’s Chairman Steps Down

What Lies Ahead, by Nigel M. de S. Cameron I am about to step down as CBC’s board chair, after serving in this role since its beginnings. We have done many things together, all aimed at helping Christians think through and engage the great questions of the 21st century. The churches are woefully unprepared for […]

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Our Bioethics

These are my sons Liam and Adrian. They’re turning three next month. We’re having a ball. My wife and I are about to have our third, a daughter, due any day now – maybe even as I’m typing here. I’m not kidding. Of course, often when we look at our children, we think about their […]

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Our Bioethics

These are my sons Liam and Adrian. They’re turning three next month. We’re having a ball. My wife and I are about to have our third, a daughter,due any day now – maybe even as I’m typing here. I’m not kidding. Of course, often when we look at our children, we think about theirfutures. We […]

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Sign the Manifesto and buy the shirt!

Hands off our ovaries a campaign to stop the harmful practice of taking healthy, young women and having them donate their eggs for scientific research, is gathering signatures from all around the world. And now, the shirt is available in a very stylish fitted short or long sleeve version in chocolate brown. Help support the […]

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Killing Babies, Compassionately, The Netherlands follows in Germany’s footsteps

(from the weeklystandard.com) AT LAST A HIGH GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL in Europe got up thenerve to chastise the Dutch government for preparing to legalize infanteuthanasia. Italy’s Parliamentary Affairs minister, Carlo Giovanardi,said during a radio debate: “Nazi legislation and Hitler’s ideas arereemerging in Europe via Dutch euthanasia laws and the debate on how tokill ill children.” Unsurprisingly, […]

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Choice, Rights, Freedom? That’s what you think!

Let me begin by saying, I am not a luddite. I love technology, and the smaller the better. I love it when technology makes my life easier. Cell phones are grand–I can turn it on and off to fit my needs. Microwave ovens–LOVE them! The world wide web–I can waste hours and hours here. But […]

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Hands Off Our Ovaries

International Women’s Day brings launch of a new coalition of women to campaign against exploitation of women in biotechnology. Buy a shirt. Sign our manifesto. Tell a friend. Join me and others. Because losing even one woman is too high a price to pay. ShareTweetPinShare

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Ebay and International Women’s Day

I used to say it was amazing what you could buy or sell online- sperm, eggs, body parts, whole entire families and even grilled cheese sandwiches with the face of the Virgin Mary. Now I marvel at what you can read online, especially about yourself.For example, last week I found myself listed on Wikipedia with […]

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Wrongful Birth, False Advertising and Erroneous Test Results

More and more our children are seen as commodities and products of our own imagination. We want perfect children, designer babies, trophies to hang on our arms as we climb into our SUVs and zip off to soccer practice and music lessons. With the rise of pre-natal genetic testing and pre-implantation genetic testing (before the […]

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