The Center for Bioethics and Culture Network

The Center for Bioethics and Culture Network CBC addresses bioethical issues that affect our humanity, especially ones that affect the most vulnerable.

The Center for Bioethics and Culture Network (CBCN) addresses bioethical issues that most profoundly affect our humanity, especially issues that arise in the lives of the most vulnerable among us. We work through a variety of media platforms—documentary film, writing, speaking, interviews, social media, and more—to educate and inform members of the general public, thought leaders, lawmakers, and others on ethical issues in healthcare, biomedical research, and biotechnological advancement.

09/03/2026

Surrogacy is often marketed as love, generosity, and helping someone have a family.
But surrogacy depends on treating pregnancy as a service, the woman who carries the child as a “carrier,” and the child as the intended result of a contract.
That is not compassion. That is commodification.
Women are not wombs for rent. Children are not products.

We were very happy to contribute the bioethics angle to this recent article in the New York Sun. Check out Development D...
09/02/2026

We were very happy to contribute the bioethics angle to this recent article in the New York Sun. Check out Development Director Kirstin Wallace's commentary.

Surrogacy is often presented as an act of generosity. But who bears the risks—and who benefits? Behind the language of c...
09/01/2026

Surrogacy is often presented as an act of generosity. But who bears the risks—and who benefits? Behind the language of choice, generosity, and compassion are difficult questions about women and children's bodily autonomy, commodification and exploitation. This September, CBC is examining what happens when reproduction becomes a transaction. Follow for the stories Big Fertility doesn't want told.

A charitable bequest can take many forms. Some donors choose to leave a specific dollar amount, while others designate a...
08/28/2026

A charitable bequest can take many forms. Some donors choose to leave a specific dollar amount, while others designate a percentage of their estate or a portion of what remains after providing for family and loved ones. Even a modest percentage can become a meaningful gift while keeping your family at the center of your estate plans.

Euthanasia does not stay limited. Everywhere it has been implemented, eligibility expands. There is no doubt that suffer...
08/27/2026

Euthanasia does not stay limited. Everywhere it has been implemented, eligibility expands. There is no doubt that suffering can become unbearable. The question for us as a society, is do we meet that suffering with compassion and presence or efficiency?

We have seen what happens in countries that legalize euthanasia/assisted su1c1de. It begins with safeguards and limited ...
08/26/2026

We have seen what happens in countries that legalize euthanasia/assisted su1c1de. It begins with safeguards and limited eligibility. It evolves to include not just the terminally ill or those without treatment options, but those with mental illness, those who are disabled, those who are young, even as young as infants. And it all starts by redefining healthcare to include d3ath.

08/25/2026

Euthanasia is not simply a private choice. It changes medicine, law, family relationships, disability rights, elder care, and the way society treats people who are suffering. Everywhere it has been implemented, safeguards slip, access expands, and its use increases.

When assisted su***de becomes legal, the question changes from “How do we care for this person?” to “Does this person qu...
08/24/2026

When assisted su***de becomes legal, the question changes from “How do we care for this person?” to “Does this person qualify for death?”

08/21/2026

In Canada, there are fewer beds for hospice care than there are people who need them. Do the math. If you think that assisted su1c1de is about an individual's right to choose how they go out, you are missing the larger system that can either heal or hurt a patient. Are we going to invest in healing, pain management, care, and presence for the terminally ill, chronic pain sufferers, and the elderly? Or are we going to decide that the cost is too high?

08/20/2026

Euthanasia myths exposed: there are safeguards in place -- but safeguards are a shifting goal post where eligibility expands, oversight is retrospective, and the option is advertised by doctors and even social media. Consider timelines like Canada's:
2016 — Canada legalizes MAID
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2019/2021 — Canada's eligibility expands beyond reasonably foreseeable death
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2025— RCMP (federal police) advertise MAID to veterans
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2026— Organization advertises MAID on social media with $1M ad buys
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2027 — Canada's exclusion for mental illness as the sole underlying condition is currently scheduled to end

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