BioTalk

Nov 06 2016 19 ep. 26 mins 45
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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…

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BioTalk20: GMO Babies and the 2016 Election

Nov 06 2016 30 mins  
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 modific

BioTalk19: Genetic Testing - Consumer/Patient Be Aware

Oct 17 2016 23 mins  
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.

BioTalk18: Self-Regulation Science Doesn't Work

Jul 29 2016 37 mins  
Scientists love to give themselves "ethical guidelines" -- only to "reevaluate" and revise those guidelines when they are no longer convenient.

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

May 06 2016 29 mins  
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.

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

May 06 2016 32 mins  
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

BioTalk15: Embryo Custody Wars -- People Not Property

May 06 2016 35 mins  
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.

BioTalk13: Aborted Fetal Body Parts in Scientific Research

May 06 2016 12 mins  
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

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

May 06 2016 32 mins  
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.”

BioTalk11: UK Approves GMO People

May 06 2016 23 mins  
British MPs voted to make the UK the first country in the world to offer controversial ‘three-parent’ fertility treatments.

BioTalk10: Biotalking with Dr. David Prentice

May 05 2016 19 mins  
At the National Right to Life Convention this summer, Chelsea caught up with Dr. David Prentice, Senior Fellow for Life Sciences at Family Research Council, and chatted with him a bit about the current status of the great “stem cell debate”, how scientists are tinkering with human life these days and what, if any, positive signs he sees for trying to stop this train at some poi