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A British court has granted legal parenthood to two men who paid almost £93,000 for a commercial surrogacy arrangement in China that prioritised male embryos and included a clause providing for a partial refund if a boy was not born. In a judgment published on 29 September, Mr Justice MacDonald, a senior judge specialising in […]
Read →Two legal cases concerning surrogacy made headlines this summer. Both arose after surrogates were pressured to abort in the second trimester due to fetal anomalies: in Ontario, a cleft lip and possible other health problems; in Alaska, hypoplastic left heart syndrome.
Read →The Miracle Surrogacy agency demonstrates how the practice commodifies children by offering a discount for initiating two surrogacy ‘journeys’ at the same time.
Read →California’s surrogacy laws let almost anyone with enough money commission a child. No background check.
Read →Jesuit Catholic Loyola University thinks that a pro-abortion, pro-IVF doctor is worthy of recognition for 'excellence,' drawing a rebuke from pro-life groups.
Read →The surrogacy and IVF industries in the U.S. have become lucrative businesses in the global marketplace, with surrogacy expected to experience explosive growth.
Read →The 2008 Vatican document Dignitas Personae affirmed the dignity and rights of frozen embryos and expressed reservations about proposals for prenatal adoption.
Read →Euthanasia Prevention Coalition & Physicians for Compassionate Care Preventing Euthanasia & Assisted Suicide Symposium Register for our online Symposium on Saturday, November 14 From ( 10 am ET) (7 am Pacific Time) to (2 pm ET) (11 am Pacific Time) Register for free in advance for the event: ( Registration Link ) Wesley J Smith is Chair and Senior Fellow at Discovery Institute’s Center on Human Exceptionalism . Wesley is a contributor to The Corner at National Review and is the author of more than 14 books, in recent years focusing exclusively on human dignity, liberty, and equality.
Read →The fifth National Men's March to Abolish Abortion and & Rally for Personhood will be held on Sunday, November 1, along a three-mile route from a local Planned Parenthood to Boston Common.
Read →"This is not easy work, in part because so many people feel that prisoners facing death have entirely forfeited their human dignity and right to life." The post Archbishop Coakley: Botched execution, proposed livestream reveal ‘inhumanity’ of death penalty first appeared on OSV News .
Read →Guest Post: A careless dinner-party remark, years of infertility, fostering, and embryo adoption taught Kirsten Upadhye why adoption isn’t a cure for childlessness, and what it reflects instead
Read →Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten and his male partner have announced they are using a surrogate and an egg donor -- two women they know -- to have a child.
Read →“It felt like a bomb dropped,” my daughter Emily recalled over lunch as she shared the circumstances and moments of terror that she and her husband, Josh, felt—the time they were given a pregnancy diagnosis of a potentially serious brain abnormality, which included being presented with the option to have ... Read More The post The Time Abortion Touched Our Family: Life Decisions After a Prenatal Diagnosis appeared first on Equal Rights Institute .
Read →From their inception, the surrogacy and IVF industries have turned children and women into transactional commodities to satisfy the desires of paying adults.
Read →"The Kardashians" star said her daughter True, whom she shares with Tristan Thompson, had named the frozen embryo.
Read →A decade ago, IVF experts spoke out against the common practice of transferring multiple embryos to the uterus, published in the New York Times. The multiple-birth method has been normalized by clinics—hoping to enhance pregnancy rates to attract patients—but experts voiced concerns about a l...
Read →Commercial surrogacy is illegal in the Netherlands, but Rob Jetten's leftist political party D66 claims that no laws have been broken.
Read →Paul Tuns: On Sept. 14, the Group of Experts of the Declaration of Casablanca for the Universal Abolition of Surrogacy, along with a group of 160 non-government organizations spanning the globe, sent a letter to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child asking it to recognize that surrogacy constitutes the sale of [...] The post UN pressed to act on surrogacy appeared first on The Interim .
Read →Throw in the towel? Every year, vulnerable persons and their defenders are more effectively repressed by distorted ideologies, automated technologies, and political concessions that stifle our celebration of human dignity.
Read →In a recent social media clip, Khloé Kardashian both humanizes and dehumanizes her frozen embryo, naming her 'Tyla' and stating the she 'owns' her.
Read →Women in China are increasingly hiring surrogates overseas, which experts say is an attempt to avoid the so-called 'motherhood penalty.'
Read →The father of the baby "couldn't get over the abortion part of our marriage" and continues to "carry the ultrasound image of the embryo everywhere he goes."
Read →"With ordinary pregnancies, everyone understands that the baby is going to seek out its mother... what is familiar." But with surrogacy, this is "erased."
Read →There’s a subtlety in this show clip that is worth appreciating.
Read →Christa Pike’s botched execution has sparked outrage across America, but critics argue that the same concern for human dignity is denied to abortion survivors.
Read →Wesley J. Smith spoke with Todd Wilkens on the Issues, Etc.
Read →What should be done about frozen orphaned embryos, whose numbers increase daily? The post Is embryo adoption consistent with Catholic teaching?
Read →Guojun Xuan and Silvia Zhang allegedly abused surrogate-born children while running an unlicensed California surrogacy agency from their home.
Read →Bishop Michael Burbidge stressed that the faithful must reject ‘these radically unjust ballot initiatives,’ which would establish ‘rights’ to abortion, IVF, and homosexual ‘marriage.’
Read →McKenna West previously claimed that the California couple pressured her for weeks and insisted that she get an abortion after the child was diagnosed with hypoplastic left heart syndrome.
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