What We’re Reading
Here’s a sampling of news and opinion items the CBC staff has been reading recently. ABC...
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Iran’s Out of Control Kidney Bazaar
Iran is the only country in the world that legally permits the purchase of human organs. (Yes, I...
Read MoreBiological Colonialism Kills
By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC In the wake of the Indian surrogate mother “gestational carrier’s” death and all the organ buying, and conducting unethical medical experiments on the...
Read MoreOrgan Mobsters Now in the West
By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC The European financial crisis has opened up a new black market opportunity — in human organs and body parts. From the New York Times story: With Europe roiled by...
Read MoreThe Attack of the Kidney Harvesters
By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC The perceived entitlement of the West sickens. We now believe our lives are so important that with biological colonialism, some of us are willing to work with criminal...
Read MoreRewarding Biological Colonialism
By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC We shouldn’t always get what we want — particularly when it comes at the cost of exploiting the world’s destitute or taking advantage of despotic...
Read MoreDeadly Potential of Live Organ Donation Should Preclude Market Approach
By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Some people believe that all of us have an obligation to participate in live organ donation, that is, giving one of our two kidneys or a lobe of liver. While I certainly...
Read MorePrisoners Should Not be Sources of Organs
By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Art Caplan has a good article in the current American Journal of Bioethics about using prisoners as sources of organs. He discusses both whether organ donation and...
Read MoreBiological Colonialism: Organ Trafficking Trial Shows Need to Outlaw Organ Buying
By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Seven Kosovars are being tried for the odious crime of organ trafficking. The allegations vividly depict how the destitute are exploited at all levels of this odious form...
Read MoreBiological Colonialism: Bioethicists Urge Science Boycott of China Over Organ Killings
By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Penn bioethicist Art Caplan and I have had some vocal disagreements over the years, but we tend to think very similarly about organ transplant issues. Now Art and four...
Read MoreBiological Colonialism: Time to Get Judgmental About Organ Buyers
By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC When will enough, finally, be enough. Not only are organs now being sold by desperate people in destitute countries — to the point that some governments have been...
Read MoreBiological Colonialism: Kidney Traffickers Busted
By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Awful. Awful. Awful. Bangladesh has busted a kidney trafficking gang. From the Herald Sun story: Three people were arrested on Sunday in the remote Kalai area, 300...
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