The infertility industry in the United States has grown to a multi-billion dollar business. What is its main commodity? Human eggs. Young women all over the world are solicited by ads—via college campus bulletin boards, social media, online classifieds—offering upRead more…
Film Presents the Hidden Dangers, Health Risks, and Exploitation of Young Women Through Egg Donation
NEW YORK, NY/July 28, 2010 – The infertility industry has a dirty little secret that is dressed in deceptive advertising, large monetary incentives and appeals to altruism. Using these tactics, the industry targets young, vulnerable women for a precious commodity: humanRead more…
Presumptuous Consent
Since organ donation became the recommended treatment of choice for many patients with end-stage organ failure, the controversy over the number of available organs for transplant and the solutions to addressing the shortage of much needed organs for those on waiting listsRead more…
When does fundraising become unethical?
When does fundraising become unethical? When fundraisers act as takers, not lead givers Jim Harries had me from hello. Even the title of his post on the Lausanne Global Conversation site–Biblical Giving, Holding Donors Accountable–is about the best five word summaryRead more…
New Film Coming Out This Summer
The infertility industry in the United States has grown to a multi-billion dollar business. What is its main commodity? Human eggs. Young women all over the world are solicited by ads — via college campus bulletin boards, social media, onlineRead more…
Truths that bind democracy
The Catholic systematic theologian William J. Hoye, who teaches at the State University in Muenster (Westfalia), has rightly emphasized that candid rational discourse between all parties involved in democracies is based upon inviolable ‘truths’ [William J. Hoye. Demokratie und Christentum:Read more…
Organ Donation
I would be interested in having a conversation with people from around the world on the organ donation policies in their countries. The U.S. is always trying to think of ways that will “solve” the organ shortage. Many proposed solutionsRead more…
My Sister’s Savior
What does it say about a society which permits, no, which condones the use of medicine and technology for the sole purpose of creating human life just to destroy it? It says we are a culture that has morally andRead more…
The Dignity of Humankind
Each year, the Center for Bioethics and Culture Network, gives the Paul Ramsey Award. The recipients of the Paul Ramsey Award demonstrate exemplary achievement in the field of bioethics by actively equipping our society to face the challenges of theRead more…