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UCLA Caught Buying Aborted Baby Parts, Altering Paperwork to Hide It
Liberty Counsel Founder and Chairman Mat Staver said, "The fetal organ harvesting business murders innocent babies for profit. These public records obtained by the Center for Medical Progress show that the work must continue to expose these heinous acts by these abortionists, harvesters, researchers, universities, and companies. The barbaric slaughter of babies for profit must stop."

The Moral Problem With IVF: Human Beings Aren't Property
In-Vitro Fertilization has created a moral crisis. There are now as many as 1.5 million frozen embryos in the U.S. alone. Many of these will remain frozen or simply tossed out. In the UK alone, an estimated 130,000 embryos have been thrown in the trash since 1991.

Pope Leo XIV: AI must serve human dignity and strengthen peace
Pope Leo XIV asks that the development of artificial intelligence be guided by wisdom and charity, so that technological progress may serve human dignity and strengthen the bonds of the human family.

Hospitals Profited From Harmful Surgeries on Minors
'Catholic teaching is clear: these medical and surgical interventions are immoral and offend human dignity,' Hasson continued. 'This report should move every Catholic to condemn the exploitative practices of the gender industry and recognize the harm done to vulnerable people.'

Mifepristone as a Public Health Issue
On June 5, 2026, Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway wrote to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on behalf of herself and 13 other state attorneys general questioning whether "the abortion pill[1]" was contaminating American water. What does this mean? It means that, if ambient concentrations of mifepristone reach "sufficient concentration," it could affect pregnant women who unintentionally are exposed to it. Nor is there clear research about how it could affect "reproductive organ development and fertility," i.e., the next generation of young people entering puberty.

Mailed Abortion Pills, Part 2: Physical Perils and Mental Traumas
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warns against buying abortion pills through mail. On its website, it headlines a section, "FDA Does Not Recommend Buying Mifepristone Online." It elaborates "buying it online" means "bypassing important safeguards specifically designed to protect health." It comments there is no way to be certain any medication received through mail is safe.

IVF Kills More Unborn Babies Than Planned Parenthood
If your goal is to bring a baby into this world, why would you turn to an industry that takes more children out of the world than Planned Parenthood?

Chloe Cole's Testimony to US Senate Committee Hearing on Pediatric Sex-Rejecting Procedures
Chloe Cole testified in front of the HELP Committee urging them to protect children against life-altering sex-rejecting procedures: "I do not believe children can meaningfully consent to these interventions. A minor cannot fully understand what it means to suppress puberty, take cross-sex hormones, lose healthy breasts, face possible infertility, experience sexual dysfunction, live with surgical scars, or depend on medical care long term. These are adult consequences being placed on children."

Science Is Making the Humanity of Unborn Babies Harder to Ignore
Baby Arthur had parvovirus, which was causing his body to fill with fluid. "His organs were failing. His heart was completely enveloped in fluid. It was struggling to pump," his mother said. "If nothing was done, he would not have made it much longer."

Costco 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.

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Ethical Perspectives on Bioethics

AI, Automation, and the Meaning of Work

Jordan J. Ballor
Abuse is no argument against proper use. But AI's challenges and opportunities are bound up with identifying the scale and scope of proper use as well as the consequences of abuse, and how to distinguish one from another.

Don't Regulate Surrogacy -- Abolish It, Says Daughter of Surrogate Mother

Michael Cook
Surrogacy is often discussed through the hopes of adults seeking children. Meet the woman, born to a surrogate herself, who says the debate should begin instead with the experiences of surrogate mothers and children separated at birth.

Nearly All Major AI Models Lean Left Politically, Grok Closest to Neutral: New Study

Kurt Mahlburg
Questions on the environment produced the most lopsided results of any category tested, with every single model favouring climate concerns over growth. Removing one model's "safety" layer moved its religion score from secular-leaning to neutral.

Baby Gabriel and the Abortion Clause: The Dark Reality of Surrogacy

Shenan J. Boquet
On Wednesday, August 12, a baby boy was born three weeks early in a hospital near Dallas. This is hardly an unusual event. However, that this particular child was born was a near miracle. Baby Gabriel had been the target of a conspiracy against his life that nearly resulted in his destruction, and which has drawn international scrutiny of one of the darkest, and least-talked-about aspects of the surrogacy industry.

Doctors Face Scrutiny About Defining Brain Death

Nancy Valko
Personally, I am not against all organ donation. In the past, I have offered to be a living donor for a friend who needed a kidney, watched my grandson cured of a rare disease through a bone marrow transplant and told my family that I wanted to donate my corneas and any other tissues that can be taken after natural death. I am open to new facts but, until then, I refuse an apnea test or any other test to specifically determine brain death if I have a severe brain injury.

One Single Life

Judie Brown
Today's hyperactive milieu seems to erase any opportunity a person might have to reflect on the awesome gift of life, one's own and that of each of those in his family, his sphere of influence, and the broader community. How often do any of us take a moment to look at another person and see a miracle?

Harvard Professor: We Are Living in a Digital Simulation (ARC Address)

Cody Mitchell
In a powerful address, Harvard professor Arthur C. Brooks has warned that smartphones have trapped Western civilisation - especially Generation Z - in a "left-brain simulation". This digital shift starves humanity of the right-brain complex experiences essential for purpose, love, and faith. He articulated three actionable steps to escape this technology trap, rebuild real human connection, and reclaim a truly meaningful life.

Britain's Health Minister Finally Discovers Biology

James Macpherson
Politicians abandoned common sense for fear of offending.

Sons and Daughters, Not Products: The Morality of Embryonic Gene Editing

Shenan J. Boquet
Genetic manipulation becomes arbitrary and unjust when it reduces life to an object, when it forgets that it is dealing with a human subject, capable of intelligence and freedom, worthy of respect whatever may be their limitations; or when it treats this person in terms of criteria not founded on the integral reality of the human person, at the risk of infringing upon his dignity.

Roi Yozevitch Is AI Taking Over the "Religion of the Book"?

Roi Yozevitch
An AI does not only "remember" all the words. But as any ChatGPT user can testify, it finds connections between different sources, summarizes them, generates challenging questions, and even deduces new insights. It can therefore seem as though these machines are well-versed in almost any topic.

The Human Embryo Created by God is Sacred

Michael D. Pfeifer
The human embryo created by God is indeed sacred because it is a human person in its earliest stage. Sadly, the embryo is being threatened more and more and killed by many. The embryo is made by God with the cooperation of a married woman and man in the Sacrament of Marriage. The main purpose of marriage is to give new life to our world as the married couple increase their love for one another. It is God who gives the soul in the embryo.

Bioethics at America250

Christopher O. Tollefsen
There is no guarantee that the bioethics of our future will live up to America's founding promises and insights. Those of us concerned that such a bioethics should exist must, as Lincoln said in honoring the dead of Gettysburg, "be dedicated to the unfinished work" of creating, sustaining, and defending that bioethics. It will be no small task, but I hope to have given some sense of what the shape of that task must be.