What We’re Reading
Here’s a sampling of news and opinion items the CBC staff has been reading recently. ABC...
Read Moreby CBC-Network | Aug 19, 2014 | Blog | 0
Here’s a sampling of news and opinion items the CBC staff has been reading recently. ABC...
Read Moreby Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC | Aug 12, 2014 | Blog | 0
Iran is the only country in the world that legally permits the purchase of human organs. (Yes, I...
Read Moreby CBC-Network | Jun 11, 2012 | Blog | 0
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 Moreby CBC-Network | Jun 10, 2012 | Blog | 0
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 Moreby CBC-Network | May 28, 2012 | Blog | 0
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 Moreby CBC-Network | Apr 16, 2012 | Blog | 0
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 Moreby CBC-Network | Apr 12, 2012 | Blog | 0
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 Moreby CBC-Network | Oct 12, 2011 | Blog | 0
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 Moreby CBC-Network | Oct 5, 2011 | Blog | 0
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 Moreby CBC-Network | Oct 3, 2011 | Blog | 0
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 Moreby CBC-Network | Sep 26, 2011 | Blog | 0
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 Moreby CBC-Network | Sep 3, 2011 | Blog | 0
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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