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Addressing bioethical issues that most profoundly affect our humanity, especially issues that arise in the lives of the most vulnerable among us.

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https://t.co/J1MRkKOTMq

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Egg donation is marketed as simple and risk-free. Actually, it carries serious risks, and Maggie's story of ovarian torsion, almost losing her ovaries, and aggressive cancer, should be required viewing for young women influenced by Big Fertility ads.

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🚨 URGENT

CALL FOR NGO SIGNATURES - UNITED NATIONS

The UN is currently negotiating a resolution on trafficking in women and girls, and the wording on surrogacy is at stake.

The current draft refers only to “exploitative commercial surrogacy”, potentially leaving other surrogacy arrangements outside the scope of the measures called for.

Several States have proposed removing these two qualifiers. We need to support their efforts and ensure that this crucial amendment is adopted.

Together with ADF International, the Casablanca Declaration is coordinating a joint NGO letter to the Permanent Mission of the Philippines to the United Nations, which is leading the negotiations.

✍️ We urgently invite NGOs worldwide to co-sign this letter:
https://t.co/C6KFLQJdPY

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Petition to uphold surrogacy ban in the Netherlands (anyone can sign)
https://t.co/VVp1lByqqE

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Egg donation is not simply helping someone build a family. It involves extracting eggs from a woman’s body, creating genetic children who may never know her, and allowing the fertility industry to profit from separating children from their biological origins.

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So many of these stories are the adults proving they know just how much biology matters...they just pretend sometimes it doesn't if it would conflict with their desires. #thembeforeus

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Egg donation is often described as donating cells.

But eggs create genetic children.

A woman who provides eggs may become the biological mother of children she never knows. And those children may spend their lives wondering about their origins, ancestry, siblings, medical history, and identity.

Biology is not everything. But it is not nothing.

Children deserve the truth about where they come from.

[Inez Stepman ⚪️🔴⚪️ @InezFeltscher]

I want an apology from everyone who told me to just get with the IVF program like it was ethically unproblematic. Imagine being a teen going through some turbulent years and your parents want to return you to the embryo factory because they were promised you wouldn’t get depressed.

[Olivia Maurel @maurel_olivia]

🇮🇳 INDIA

WOMEN’S EGGS SOLD FOR AS LITTLE AS $210.

43 women rescued, 8 arrests and an alleged illegal egg-trafficking network exposed in Hyderabad.

Women recruited from across India, reportedly selected according to their CASTE, RELIGION, SKIN COLOUR, HEIGHT and EDUCATION.

Some were subjected to hormonal injections. The women were allegedly offered just $210–$315 per cycle.

Women reduced to biological inventory and their eggs turned into merchandise.

THIS IS THE DARK SIDE OF THE FERTILITY INDUSTRY.

https://t.co/6vtHNTbHyV

[StopSurrogacyNowUK @WombsNotForRent]

We’re so thrilled to see this interview with Christian which shines a light on the reality of #surrogacy.

“I feel like I signed a contract with Satan and I sold my soul away when I did this because it has been nothing but hell since the moment I started taking those injections till this very moment right now.”

Surrogate mothers are speaking up and when one woman bravely steps forward, more follow. Christian now advocates against this harmful practice and invites contact from women who also have regret, please get in touch with @supprt90668 and watch the full interview from @EWTNews
also featuring @kal_fell from @CBCnetwork.

https://t.co/uWwn9wqOxH https://t.co/wsgYNm2Dgu

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CBC is not against technology.
We are against any vision of technology that forgets the human person.
Technology should heal, assist, protect, and serve.
It should not redefine human worth.
It should not turn children into products.
It should not treat disability as failure.
It should not teach us to despise the body.
It should not replace dignity with optimization.
Human beings are not machines to be upgraded.

[Boris Spider @BorisSpider14]

The surgeon who cut off Fox Varian's breasts mentioned "gender dysphoria" 107 times in his deposition and stated that this diagnosis was a hard requisite for the surgery he peformed.

And yet, Dr. Chin's notes on Ms. Varian's medical records produced in the trial do not include a single mention of the gender dysphoria diagnosis. Instead, he testified that he submitted records to her Medicaid insurance plan billing it as a breast removal for "breast hypertrophy" - a rare condition of having painfully large breasts, usually at least 3% of the patient's bodyweight.

His clinical notes include the observation that Fox had "B cup" sized breasts.

This article by Dr. Eithan Haim, with which I assisted, looks at the extensive set of medical records that was made available in the Fox Varian malpractice trial. I'm grateful to Eithan for his unflagging dedication to shining light on what is happening in this nation's gender clinics.

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Transhumanism is already shaping the way our culture thinks about reproduction.
Embryos are screened.
Traits are selected.
Disabilities are targeted.
Artificial wombs are imagined.
Children are increasingly treated as products of design.
CBC stands against any vision of the future that makes a child’s welcome depend on optimization.
Children are not upgrades. They are human beings.

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A crucial politic of transhumanism is to obliterate biological reality for the fulfilment of individual wants and desires. The cost is child welfare, in this case, but the health and safety of newborns does not factor anywhere in the calculus.

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Highlight reel of Australia’s sex discrimination commissioner, the custodian of women’s rights, saying utter nonsense. It could on for hours but we’ve all got lives to lead so here’s 3 minutes.

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https://t.co/mhuoGY0uBg

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Transhumanism divorces biology from reality. More from our interview with @bjportraits

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Transhumanist eugenic AI already being used to decide which humans are born

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Guy Davies, third prize winner in this year's Marcus Pembrey BioNews Writing Competition, explores what happens when AI starts to define what makes an embryo the “best”.
Read for free in BioNews: https://t.co/vDpGqSOnBX
#AI #FertilityTreatment #EmbryoSelection #FertilityClinics

[Olivia Maurel @maurel_olivia]

🇺🇸 FINALLY. The United States is starting to question the surrogacy industry it allowed to grow like a cancer.

And this case involves TWO FRENCH MEN.

Florida’s Attorney General is challenging the constitutionality of surrogacy contracts.

Because since when can a HUMAN BEING be the subject of a commercial contract?

WELL DONE @AGJamesUthmeier ! This is coming from a surrogate born child 🙏🏻

https://t.co/ueNXLVkbb3

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"We're much, much more profitable as
parts than we are as whole, integral human beings."
@bjportraits on Venus Rising

[StopSurrogacyNowUK @WombsNotForRent]

**Update** on another US scandal uncovered in 2023 by @FingerLakes1:

"Woman accused of forging documents to arrange a surrogacy without her husband’s knowledge has pleaded guilty to three misdemeanor charges."

https://t.co/wGSSXcTWID

MaryBeth Lewis, a 69 year old nurse from NYC already had 13 children (including children born from donated gametes) when she commissioned twins through #surrogacy using donor embryos.

She allegedly forged her husband's signature on legal documents and impersonated him during a court hearing to secure parental rights.

The twins were placed in foster care during the legal proceedings. Since then, the children have been returned to the care of Mr and Mrs Lewis while the foster parents continue to contest the outcome.

The New York Times is paywalled so we share this for more background:

https://t.co/9egvylqrLN