May 2006

The Booming Better Baby Business

I’ve written before about the better baby business and the fact that people’s desire to take control over the characteristics of their future offspring is strong–and some of us argue that designing babies is becoming main streamed. Perhaps we may even see the day when parents who choose not to choose from a cafeteria style […]

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Testimony of Wesley J. Smith before Senate on Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia

Testimony of Wesley J. Smith, JD, Before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, & Property Rights, May 25, 2006 On the federal governments role regarding the debate on assisted suicide and euthanasia Download PDF of entire testimony with footnotes Good afternoon. My name is Wesley J. Smith. I am a lawyer, […]

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Lisa the egg donor

Lisa wants you to know, “it’s not just a check” but also, “people’s whose lives are changing.” The $40 million dollar a year, mostly unregulated egg donation industry in the U.S., continues to heavily recruit from young college girls. Debora Spar, a Harvard Business School professor who has just written a new book, The Baby […]

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While you were sleeping

your favorite company may have slipped nano particles into your sunscreen, your cosmetics and all kinds of skin care products and now several groups are asking for the FDA to step in and regulate. Brent Blackwelder with Friends of the Earth, Judy Norsigian of Our Bodies Ourselves, and Andrew Kimbrell over at the International Center […]

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Assisted Suicide: The Wrong Solution for Society

Within the next few months, we will know whether California will join Oregonand legalize physician-assisted suicide (PAS) for the terminally ill bypassing AB 651. The CBC believes that permitting doctors to perform PASon dying people would be wrong and a form of abandonment. As the NewYork Task Force on Life and the Law wrote in […]

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A week’s worth of bioethics

With the speed of science and technology and the 24/7 live news coverage of just about anything happening all around the world, if you miss a week of blogging it can seem hard to know where to pick up and begin. While I was in London last week, the news broke the story of the […]

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