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BioTalk is a pro-life video series about all things bioethics, especially those issues related to human biotechnology — cloning, embryonic stem cell research, genetic engineering, transhumanism, etc…

11/06/2016

BioTalk20: GMO Babies and the 2016 Election

The first GMO baby was born this year using the "3-parent IVF" method called “maternal spindle transfer”. If not for the Aderholt amendment to the 2015 omnibus spending bill, which prohibits the Food and Drug Administration from entertaining any submission that proposes “research in which a human embryo is intentionally created or modified to include heritable genetic modification”, that baby would have likely been manufactured in the United States. Let's keep human genetic experimentation out of our country!

30 min
10/17/2016

BioTalk19: Genetic Testing - Consumer/Patient Be Aware

Whether you’re getting tested for legitimate health reasons or just to find out “who you are” and where you came from, you should be aware that once your DNA` leaves your body you have zero control over what happens to it.

23 min
07/29/2016

BioTalk18: Self-Regulation Science Doesn't Work

Scientists love to give themselves "ethical guidelines" -- only to "reevaluate" and revise those guidelines when they are no longer convenient.

37 min
05/06/2016

BioTalk17: Human Genetic Modification and U.S. Public Policy

Speaking with Dr. David Prentice about what, if anything, is being done to stem the tide of human genetic engineering in the United States -- and if there's *any* hope for tighter, more permanent restrictions in the future.

30 min
05/06/2016

BioTalk16: Genetic Enhancements, A “Biological Arms Race” That No One Can Win

Last year the UK became the first in the world to offer controversial ‘three-parent’ fertility treatments. This year they approved the use of CRISPR to edit genomes of human embryos. In the latest episode of BioTalk, we discuss how scientists and governments have re-engineered language to sell the public on embryo-re-engineering (http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/scientists-governments-re-engineer-language-to-sell-public-on-embryo-re-eng/). We also look at the long-term implications of genetic enhancement. Specifically, how enhancement leads to coercion and the loss of human dignity (http://www.catholiclane.com/the-seductive-siren-song-of-genetic-enhancement/).

33 min
05/06/2016

BioTalk15: Embryo Custody Wars -- People Not Property

Speaking with Jim Cole, General Counsel for Missouri Right to Life, about IVF "custody battles" and what's in the best interest of the embryonic children involved.

35 min
05/06/2016

BioTalk13: Aborted Fetal Body Parts in Scientific Research

Speaking with chemistry and physics instructor, Dr. Stacy Trasancos. Stacy reminds us that it really doesn’t take any undercover investigating to find proof that abortion providers have been supplying scientists with aborted fetal body parts — sometimes even whole, intact, live fetuses — for research, much of which, like Planned Parenthood, receives funding from the Federal Government. This information is and has been widely available in scientific literature dating back decades.

13 min
05/06/2016

BioTalk12: Medical Ethics and Transhumanism -- The World's First Head Transplant?

The ethical considerations of the possible world's first head transplant and and other extremely invasive medical procedures, our tendency to treat mental diseases as physical diseases, recent comments from the Vatican on plastic surgery and how it relates to transhumanism and the importance of “bodily integrity.”

32 min

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BioTalk20: GMO Babies and the 2016 Election

BioTalk19: Genetic Testing - Consumer/Patient Be Aware

BioTalk18: Self-Regulation Science Doesn't Work

BioTalk17: Human Genetic Modification and U.S. Public Policy

BioTalk16: Genetic Enhancements, A “Biological Arms Race” That No One Can Win

BioTalk15: Embryo Custody Wars -- People Not Property

BioTalk13: Aborted Fetal Body Parts in Scientific Research

BioTalk12: Medical Ethics and Transhumanism -- The World's First Head Transplant?

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BioTalk20: GMO Babies and the 2016 Election

BioTalk19: Genetic Testing - Consumer/Patient Be Aware

BioTalk18: Self-Regulation Science Doesn't Work

BioTalk17: Human Genetic Modification and U.S. Public Policy

BioTalk16: Genetic Enhancements, A “Biological Arms Race” That No One Can Win

BioTalk15: Embryo Custody Wars -- People Not Property

BioTalk13: Aborted Fetal Body Parts in Scientific Research

BioTalk12: Medical Ethics and Transhumanism -- The World's First Head Transplant?

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