BioTalk Episode 2: Three Parent Embryos and the Brave New United States
Release Date: 01/29/2016
BioTalk20: GMO Babies and the 2016 Election
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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!
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BioTalk19: Genetic Testing - Consumer/Patient Be Aware
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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.
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BioTalk18: Self-Regulation Science Doesn't Work
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Scientists love to give themselves "ethical guidelines" -- only to "reevaluate" and revise those guidelines when they are no longer convenient.
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BioTalk17: Human Genetic Modification and U.S. Public Policy
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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.
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BioTalk16: Genetic Enhancements, A “Biological Arms Race” That No One Can Win
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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 (). We also look at the long-term implications of genetic enhancement. Specifically, how enhancement leads to coercion and the loss of human dignity ().
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BioTalk15: Embryo Custody Wars -- People Not Property
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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.
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BioTalk13: Aborted Fetal Body Parts in Scientific Research
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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 — 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.
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BioTalk12: Medical Ethics and Transhumanism -- The World's First Head Transplant?
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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 and how it relates to transhumanism and the importance of “bodily integrity.”
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BioTalk11: UK Approves GMO People
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British MPs voted to make the UK the first country in the world to offer controversial ‘three-parent’ fertility treatments.
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BioTalk10: Biotalking with Dr. David Prentice
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At the National Right to Life Convention this summer, Chelsea caught up with , 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 point.
info_outlineIn October of last year, scientists in Oregon made embryos with genes from one man and two women: http://lacrossetribune.com/oregon-scientists-make--parent-embryos/article_d4035b9a-1e62-11e2-8218-0019bb2963f4.html
Rebecca and Chelsea discuss this kind of genetic engineering and the "Brave New" United States where there are no restrictions on this or other once unthinkable kinds of human experimentation currently in practice. We also discuss the impact this kind of experimentation has on women.