Breaking NewsCostco Will Sell Discounts for IVF and Egg Freezing
Costco Wholesale is partnering with telehealth provider Sesame and fertility clinic network IVI RMA North America to offer members discounted access to fertility treatments, including in vitro fertilization, egg freezing and intrauterine insemination, along with savings of up to 80% on certain medications. Parents Can't Be 'Assigned At Birth' Any More Than Sex Can
The phrase 'sex assigned at birth' was dreamed up to suggest that biological sex (male or female, determined at fertilization and encoded in chromosones) is not an objective reality but a label slapped on a baby by a doctor in a delivery room. As if maleness and femaleness were within the purview and authority of adults to decide. As if the biology was negotiable. Most people now recognize this for what it is: a denial of biological reality." Technically Human: Elizabeth Condra
Elizabeth Condra is a young wife and new mother. Her son, who is now sixteen months old, was born with a rare multi-gene deletion disorder. After undergoing genetic testing with her husband to determine whether they were carriers for the genetic disorder, genetic counselors "continuously referenced" IVF, even after Elizabeth and her husband said they weren't interested in pursuing it, no matter the results. Plastic surgeons support waiting until patients are at least 19 years old
For the first time, a major U.S. physician group has recommended against gender transition surgeries for youths. Human Life Begins at Conception: One Single Cell Becomes Trillions
When the cell was first discovered (and named) by Robert Hooke in 1665, it was hailed as a major discovery. However it was initially thought to be just a cell wall containing a mass of some sort of undifferentiated protoplasm. Harmed by Medical Transition
Detransition is not a checklist, and it is not a hierarchy...This is not a linear recovery, and it cannot be forced. These are patients who have been harmed by medical transition, and their recovery must proceed at their own pace, guided by their own readiness and their own hard-won understanding. Skrmetti Is a Partial Victory for Common Sense
While the efforts of gender ideology and its activists have been subdued due to federal and state legislation and executive orders, the threat still remains. PIP's co-founders Mary Hasson and Theresa Farnan discuss why this is the case in context of a major SCOTUS victory which protects children from sex-rejecting procedures. The Misguided Campaign for "Gender-Affirming" Care
"The truth is the truth even if nobody believes it, and a lie is still a lie even if everybody believes it." - Venerable Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen Study Shows Unborn Babies Experience Consciousness
In the ongoing discussions about fetal pain and fetal consciousness, some groups have argued fetuses have no sensory experiences throughout all of pregnancy. They say the neuroinhibitors in fetal blood continually sedate them, so they aren't likely to experience pain (or anything else) until they're born. Dasein ohne Leben (or "Existence without Life"): A Nazi Film Argues for Killing the Weakest
The Nazis produced powerful propaganda. Among their many propaganda products was "Dasein ohne Leben," which is German for "Existence without Life." The original film and its copies were lost at the end of World War II. More Headlines…
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Ethical Perspectives on Bioethics Susan Ciancio
Since the reversal of Roe v. Wade and Casey v. Planned Parenthood, we have seen anger. We have seen violence. And we have seen the dispersal of all kinds of misinformation - most of it aimed at increasing rage, stirring up indignation, and causing confusion. One of the pieces of misinformation that continues to spread pertains to ectopic pregnancies. Jim Twelves
A timely Christian reflection on Artificial Intelligence's promises and perils, urging discernment amid rising transhumanism, deception, and prophetic parallels drawn from Scripture and contemporary thinkers. Susan Ciancio
Controversies are extremely prominent in the field of stem cell research, as scientists debate the different kinds and the varying benefits of each. Some stem cells are taken from adults or even from a mother's placenta. These are ethical sources. But some stem cells are taken from aborted embryos or from embryos created during IVF. We will explore why this is wrong, what the Catholic Church teaches on the subject of stem cell research, and what advancements have been made with a special kind of stem cell. Merlot Mary Fogarty
Can We Restore Hope in Women?s Healthcare? Change at all levels of healthcare, education, and policy need to be made to meet infertility upstream and to care for the health and well-being of women at all stages of life, including before they are trying to become mothers.
Shenan J. Boquet
The truth that life is a precious gift from God has profound implications for the question of stewardship over human life. We are not the owners of our lives and, hence, do not have absolute power over life. ... Suicide and euthanasia are never morally acceptable options. Judie Brown
Webster says a traffic jam is "a situation in which a long line of vehicles on a road have stopped moving or are moving very slowly." If we juxtapose moral principles - the Ten Commandments - with these impediments, we can look at today's cultural chaos as the most severe traffic jam in human history.
Brian Clowes
The very rare cases when a pregnancy poses a genuine and immediate threat to the mother's life are a source of great confusion, especially among Catholics. It is absolutely true that the Catholic Church bans direct abortion in all cases. However, the mother's life may be saved by surgery that does not directly attack the preborn baby's life, even if the child may die as an indirect result of the procedure. This ethical principle is known as the principle of double effect. Lori Hadacek Chaplin
When all is said and done, God has designed the procreative acts of parents as the best and most ethical way to bring children into the world. For those who are unable to conceive on their own, there are alternatives that do not include accepting babies created in petri dishes, filtered for flaws and discarded like trash.
Patrick T. Brown
If democracy means anything, it should mean some ability to take a deep breath before we permit Silicon Valley to hack baby-making in the same way it has remade so many other facets of our lives. Joshua Arnold
The American Society of Plastic Surgeons breaks ranks, urging gender transition surgeries for minors be delayed amid low-quality evidence, ethical concerns, and growing recognition of irreversible harms. Emma Waters
If the goal of medicine is to protect and restore life, then our efforts and investments should flow to therapies that treat the sick, not to technologies that eliminate them before they are born. Shenan J. Boquet
The surrogacy industry has commercialized the bodies of woman and their children. Human children are being treated like common property, bought for the right price. The purpose of their lives is being subordinated to the desires of their purchasers, who are not seeking relationship, but rather some form of benefit.
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