Surrogate Baby Mix-Up

by The Center for Bioethics and Culture on January 18, 2022

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Welcome back to Venus Rising, now available on Spotify, iTunes, and Podomatic! Only because of a mixed-race concern was it discovered that the baby Kimberly gave birth to was her own child, and not the baby for a Chinese couple who hired her. Two months after his birth, Kimberly was finally given her baby back at the local police department  […]

2021’s Biggest Winners & Losers

by Jennifer Lahl, CBC President on January 11, 2022

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Raise your hand if 2021 flew by!  Even with COVID-19 and the lockdowns, a year that could have felt like it lasted a lifetime, just whizzed by for me. But not to give up on my annual tradition of picking winners and losers, in the spirit of those who either modeled what we stand for here at […]

Venus Rising With Dr. Theresa Morris

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Welcome back to Venus Rising, now available on Spotify, iTunes, and Podomatic! We are kicking off the New Year with an episode featuring researcher, author and professor Dr. Theresa Morris! Theresa is Professor of Sociology and Women’s and Gender Studies as well as the Coordinator of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at Texas A&M University. When she’s not busy […]

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Debate on the Business of the Pill Continues

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I’m prone to say because of the work I do in bioethics, that “the pill allowed us to have sex, without having babies, and now reproductive technologies allow us to have babies without having sex.” I use Elton John and his partner David Furnish as my illustration. Elton and David came to California to buy eggs from […]

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You Helped Stop A Surrogate Pregnancy

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In the midst of countless legislative efforts backed by heavily funded messaging campaigns that oppose our efforts, it can sometimes be difficult to quantify our impact or pause to celebrate our accomplishments. Then we receive emails like this one: I am writing this email to THANK YOU SO MUCH for the work you do, and […]

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Call to Action!

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As we get closer to the end of 2021 and you start to make resolutions for 2022, we call you to action. Many of our supporters want to know how they can get involved and make a difference. Here are five easy ways you can personally make a dent in the issues that most affect our human future:  Share our mission with those around you! Simply sharing […]

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The Gobbledygook Gender Word Salad Helps Destroy Young Lives

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Gender fluid artist Mx. Alok Vaid-Menon (infamously known for his assertion that little girls are “kinky”) has announced that he’s moving into non-gender fashion design, “blending traditionally feminine shapes, such as bras and skirts, with clothing that defies gender categories.” Here, we find ourselves again subjected to more meaningless absurdity, reported by the mainstream press, beginning with the […]

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Kara Dansky: How the “Transgender” Agenda Harms Women & Girls

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Today on Venus Rising, we welcome attorney, public speaker, writer, and consultant, Kara Dansky. Kara has an extensive background in criminal justice law and policy and is unabashedly committed to protecting the rights, privacy, and safety of women and girls on the basis of sex in law and throughout society. Kara currently serves on the […]

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Lifetime Movie Review: “Switched Before Birth”

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Recently I was alerted to a new movie on the Lifetime channel, Switched Before Birth, a movie inspired by IVF stories of real-life couples, as it covers a topic near and dear to my heart and profession.  This movie touches on a myriad of subjects of interest to our CBC readers: surrogacy, sperm donation, and […]

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Celebrating the Past Year as We Look Forward to the Next

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It’s been said that winter isn’t a season, but rather a celebration. We’ll admit, we aren’t really big fans of the cold and dreary weather that accompanies winter, but we love the celebration that winter beholds. Maybe Aristotle thought the same when he said, “to appreciate the beauty of a snowflake it is necessary to […]

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Film Review: “Intended Parents”

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In our global fight against commercial surrogacy, we routinely find ourselves up against skillfully executed propaganda pieces that tug at the heartstrings and obscure objectivity, causing people to think that the ends justify the means when it comes to surrogacy. Intended Parents is not one of those pieces.  The 32 minute video produced by Dr. […]

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The Heartbreaking Truth About Assisted Reproductive Technology

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I love it when new research surfaces on women’s and children’s health, specifically in the areas of artificial reproductive technologies (ART) like IVF, egg ‘donation’, and surrogacy. It’s unfortunate that, despite social changes including the women’s rights movement and feminism, we continually fall behind in understanding the female body, and we continually allow #BigFertility to […]

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Venus Rising with Dr. Joyce Harper: Fertility, Genetics, and Reproductive Science

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Today on Venus Rising Kallie sits down with reproductive science research expert, author, academic and educator Joyce Harper, BSc, PhD. Currently Dr. Harper is Professor of Reproductive Science at University College London in the Institute for Women’s Health where she is Head of the Reproductive Science and Society Group. She is a Director of the Embryology and PGD Academy and founder of […]

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Has America Had Enough of Radical Transgender Ideology?

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America has had it, and the cracks in the veneer are showing. The expression of our outrage is heard in the chants of “Let’s Go Brandon!” at public events, seen among parents pushing back on radical educational agendas that insert trans ideology into curriculum in places such as the Loudoun County school district in Virginia, where a […]

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Counting Our Blessings

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Dear friends, Motivational speaker and writer William Arthur Ward once said, “Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.” During this season of thanksgiving, we at the CBC want to hand out gifts of gratitude and make sure that we explicitly express how grateful we are for your […]

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Venus Rising with Jennifer Block: Why Health Care Needs a Feminist Revolution

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Welcome back to Venus Rising, now available on Spotify, iTunes, and Podomatic.! Today we have award winning independent journalist and author Jennifer Block on the show. We will be talking with Jennifer about her work including her newest book,  Everything Below The Waist: Why Health Care Needs a Feminist Revolution (St. Martin’s Press). You might have read her work in The BMJ, […]

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When Giving the Gift of Life Costs You Your Life

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Due to the advocacy and educational work I do around the medical, ethical, and legal risks involved in surrogate pregnancies, I was recently alerted that another U.S. gestational surrogate died. Lydia Cox died July 18, 2021, at the age of 33. She was married and the mother of four children. Per her husband Trey’s TikTok message, Lydia […]

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Children Are Not Leftovers to be Frozen

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I recently read an article that called to mind a Daryl Hannah quote from the movie, “Steel Magnolias.” Hannah plays Annelle, a young woman who has prepared a dish for the funeral of Shelby, played by Julia Roberts, saying, “It’s in the ‘Freezes Beautifully’ section of my cookbook, and I want to make something that freezes beautifully.” […]

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