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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 MoreElectric Stimulation Treats Severe Brain Damage
It appears there may be a way to improve the condition of patients in a persistent unconscious and minimally conscious states. From the New Scientist story: People who have been in a minimally conscious state for weeks or years...
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 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...
Read MoreWorst of East Meets West: Teenager Sells Kidney for I-Pad
By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC People sell organs in China. In the West, people occasionally die if they get between crazed store customers and an electronics sale. These two darknesses have conjoined in...
Read MoreBiological Colonialism: Organ Tourism Must Be Outlawed Internationally
By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC The living human bodies of the poor are increasingly looked upon by the rich and powerful as resources ripe for the mining. As regular readers know: Ounce for ounce, human...
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