Researchers have learned how to dampen gene expression of the extra 21st chromosome, which is the cause of Down syndrome. To date, there are no therapies to cure or treat Down syndrome. Last year, when I was at the Meeting in...
Read MoreI read with much interest Marcy Darnvosky’s article in Nature, “A Slippery Slope to Human Germline Modification.” The article focuses on the ethics of the technology used to create “three-parent...
Read MoreBy Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Bioedge published a good article this week discussing the claim by some bioethicists that parents be required to use pre-implantation genetic diagnosis to eradicate...
Read MoreBy Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Prenatal genetic testing has turned into a search and destroy eugenic abortion mission that targets fetuses with Down syndrome, dwarfism, and other genetic conditions....
Read MoreBy Jennifer Lahl, CBC President Pacific Reproductive Center (PRC) of Southern California (AKA, the reproductive tourist capital of the world) has just announced the opening of an on-site laboratory with breakthrough technology...
Read MoreBy Jennifer Lahl, CBC President Pacific Reproductive Center (PRC) of Southern California (AKA, the reproductive tourist capital of the world) has just announced the opening of an on-site laboratory with breakthrough technology...
Read MoreBy Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Eugenics is both profoundly wrong and extremely dangerous in that it divides human beings into better and worse categories, which leads to great evil; oppression,...
Read MoreI recently attended a debate between Wesley J. Smith and Gregory Stock. Our CBC staffer, Evan Rosa has a great write up you can read in its entirety here.Evan writes, “The match-up for this event: Wesley Smith, bioethics...
Read MoreNot all scientific and medical progress is ethical. Certainly, not all progress is for the benefit of the human future. This particular story is a case in point.From the story:”The first baby in the UK tested before...
Read MoreHas the era of high tech embryo profiling arrived? I have been following the recent study published in the journal Human Reproduction. Researchers have combined the technology that allows them to screen embryos at the blastocyst...
Read MoreIt just doesn’t seem to end. More quality controls on IVF embryos. Read this:For the first time, fertility researchers have used DNA fingerprinting to identify which embryos have implanted after in vitro fertilization or...
Read MoreThe United Kingdom is taking another step in the wrong direction – moving to make it illegal to implant embryos which are abnormal. This brings me to one of my many many complaints about IVF technology. IVF technology...
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