By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC IVF was promised as a generally minor matter that would be available for married couples, otherwise unable, to have biological children. Of course, that relatively...
Read MoreBy Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC IVF has changed our attitudes and expectations about bearing children, and not necessarily for the better. Instead of unconditionally loving the child who we receive, some...
Read MoreFor Immediate ReleaseFilm Presents the Hidden Dangers, Health Risks, and Exploitation of Young Women Through Egg DonationNEW YORK, NY/July 28, 2010 – The infertility industry has a dirty little secret that is dressed in...
Read MoreBy Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC One of the big stories today in Australia is of a Melbourne woman who has announced that she is traveling to Thailand to have sex selection IVF because it is against the...
Read MoreBy Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Those who objected to IVF (before my time) on the basis that the technology would not be limited to helping infertile, married couples conceive, were laughed off as scare...
Read MoreBy Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBCGood grief. The Telegraph is warning of terrible slashing cuts in the NHS budget. From the story:The NHS is suffering potentially devastating cuts to jobs and patient...
Read MoreBy Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC This just makes my head explode. A woman was implanted with the wrong embryos, and rather than honor another woman’s children and let them live, immediately terminated the...
Read MoreBy Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC We are quickly becoming an entitlement culture that increasingly refuses to set self limits and presumes the right to harness technology to get us what we want–no...
Read MoreBy Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBCI worry about the devolution of medicine from a healing profession into a lifestyle, on demand, technocratic enabling guild. We see it all around us. Octomom, for example,...
Read MoreI volunteered to harvest eggs for a friend, whose ovaries had ceased producing eggs in her early 30’s. She bought donated sperm from a California university sperm bank several years prior to my egg harvest and was being...
Read MoreEgg donation is risky business. But unlike other high-risk jobs that offer appropriate compensation for the dangers (e.g., skyscraper window washing), the egg donation process is inherently risky, from beginning to end. What are...
Read MoreFertility doctor, Michael Kamrava, responsible for the Octuplet births of Nadya Suleman in 2009 has finally been accused of gross negligence by the California Medical Board. Kamrava was already expelled from membership with the...
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