7 Quick Takes Friday

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7 quick takesHere’s a round-up of some stuff I’ve wanted to post, but haven’t gotten around to lately:

1. Outsourcing Pregnancy: Just Another Job? Jennifer Lahl comments on the modern business of baby making:

Pregnancy has been reduced to a “bits and pieces” brokered industry: sperm from a handsome Scandinavian stud, eggs from a beautiful Ivy League graduate, a womb-for-rent from a poor woman in India trying to provide food and education for her children, and brokers in the middle setting up the legal transactions to build a better baby the 21st-century way.

2. Sally’s Lambs – I don’t remember how I cam across this, but it’s a cute little website with resources to encourage and support birth moms facing unplanned pregnancies.

3. Is MTV’s ‘Skins’ ‘In Danger of Being Canceled’ – Taco Bell, General Motors and H&R Block all withdrew their advertising from the show, it lost half of its viewers by the second episode and some are questioning whether it might actually break child pornography laws. All in all things are not looking too great for the teen drama and I can’t say I’m all that upset about it.

4. Vermont Assisted Suicide Bill the Usual Loophole Scam – Wesley Smith on the push being made in Vermont to legalize assisted suicide.

5. Christian anthropology versus the Sexual Revolution – Peter Kreeft wonders “How does Christ revolutionize the Sexual Revolution?”

6. No More “Mental Retardation.” So? – an excellent column from Cause of Our Joy‘s Leticia Vasquez:

Given the choice, I would prefer my daughter to be called a “retard” and know that abortion of babies with Down syndrome had ceased.

7. The Man Who Loved Women Too Much – meet Harold Cassidy, the lawyer who’s crusading to advance women’s rights—by restricting access to abortion.

Bonus: Just as I finished a round-up of the latest adult stem cell research news, Dr. David Prentice notes an advancement in using cardiac adult stem cells to treat children with heart problems!

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