The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity
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A Christian bioethics research center that explores the nexus of biomedicine, biotechnology, and our common humanity.
Deerfield, IL
Joined February 2011
The Bioethics Weekly: https://t.co/LsAOb0IewZ + The AI Cold War That Will Redefine Everything + F.D.A. Will Remove Black Box Warnings From Hormone Treatments for Menopause + New malaria drug could be a life-saver as the standard drug shows signs of weakness + They Fell in Love
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This BIOETHICS WEEKLY: An Opportunity for CBHD: Please Pray https://t.co/RWrbgDcP66 + Patients go to court to stop embryos being destroyed after admin error + Personalized gene editing helped one baby: can it be rolled out widely? + She Was Ready to Have Her 15th Child. Then
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The BIOETHICS MONTHLY email has just gone out, recapping our work in October. Read all about it: https://t.co/tzfQhoeToE + INTERSECTIONS: A Science-Based Case for the Immortality of the Human Soul + PODCAST: Don't Die + Dignitas vol. 32, no. 1-2 + The Ethics of Life & Death
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From the latest issue of Dignitas – "Searching for Sleep: Sleep Hygiene as a Biomedical and Theological Problem" by Todd T. W. Daly, PhD https://t.co/JTHrJ2t8qx One main goal of this project is to offer a theological understanding of sleep and sleeplessness, framing these, and
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We are so glad to have @MatthewEppinett and @BioethicsCenter as friends of the Society! Thank you for your work and faithful witness on behalf of human dignity. Your state needs it, apparently. Let's pray that this bill is vetoed!
An assisted suicide bill now sits on the desk of @GovPritzker in Illinois. Earlier this year @MatthewEppinett testified against this bill before the state legislature. Then he wrote this piece in @WNGdotorg, "How does assisted suicide affect you?" https://t.co/25rzixNChw
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This BIOETHICS WEEKLY: Dignitas vol. 32, no. 1-2 https://t.co/EbbfnIyWGP + Common IVF test misses some genetic abnormalities in embryos + Music could help ease pain from surgery or illness. Scientists are listening + Pig Kidney Removed From Transplant Patient After Nine Months +
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Our Executive Director on the far reaching dangers of assisted suicide legislation https://t.co/56pVPvqHBJ
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F. Matthew Eppinette | Legalizing the practice, even with “guardrails,” changes the way a society thinks and acts
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This INTERSECTIONS article, "God’s Sovereignty in Barrenness" ( https://t.co/uEOEy94233), is mentioned in a recent Christianity Today article, "There’s No Shame in Talking About Pregnancy Loss" ( https://t.co/poyfL6XhaL) Infertility inevitably leads to a personal wrestling with
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This would be a good usage of your time. Ewan Goligher @ecgoligher presenting "How Should We Then Die? A response to physician-assisted death." This was a plenary address given at the last conference of the Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity @BioethicsCenter. Link to follow.
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NOW AVAILABLE—Dignitas vol. 32, no. 1-2 (Spring/Summer 2025) https://t.co/bWETXSPqs3 Editorial (Spring/Summer 2025) Anna B. Vollema, PhD (Cand.), Matthew Eppinette, MBA, PhD Reviving Organs, Redefining Death? The Ethical Controversy Over Normothermic Regional Perfusion and the
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The BIOETHICS Weekly: + NEW PODCAST: Don’t Die + CBHD Membership https://t.co/TDiLdbvnlP + The Race to Make the Perfect Baby Is Creating an Ethical Mess + Oversharing with AI: How your ChatGPT conversations could be used against you + ‘Girl, Take Your Crazy Pills!’
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Our latest MEMBERS ONLY EMAIL was sent this week, full of exclusive content, including an invitation to a members-only discussion of Guillermo del Toro’s new film adaptation of Frankenstein. Not a member, sign up today: $7/mo, $75/yr (students $5/mo, $40/yr)
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In this episode of The Bioethics podcast, CBHD Research Scholar Anna Vollema and CBHD Research Analyst Heather Zeiger join CBHD Executive Director Matthew for a discussion of the Netflix documentary film Don’t Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever. https://t.co/K3X4S6aZkl
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This BIOETHICS Weekly: + A Science-Based Case for the Immortality of the Human Soul + Resources on Reproductive Technologies, IVF, and Embryos https://t.co/7vHRaCiVjk + How dangerous are LLMs really? + He Was Expected to Get Alzheimer’s 25 Years Ago. Why Hasn’t He? + Is the
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DID YOU KNOW, we have a host of resources on reproductive technologies and IVF? A sampling: Gilbert Meilaender, “Children: Blessing or Project?” Intersections. This article focuses on the ways in which changes in reproductive technologies affect how we think about children,
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Professor Adam Omelianchuk examines the ethical debate around normothermic regional perfusion in his new article, “Reviving Organs, Redefining Death?” published in Dignitas Journal of @BioethicsCenter. 📖 Read: https://t.co/t7sz6HcF19
#Bioethics #MedicalEthics #OrganDonation
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As medicine makes technological advances, it raises ethical questions. One of the most pressing questions in organ transplantation today is about a technique called Normothermic Regional Perfusion...
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A Science-Based Case for the Immortality of the Human Soul by Denyse O'Leary https://t.co/uItxHeX1H7 In 2022, philosopher Stephen C. Meyer wrote an article for Newsweek noting that science is not really backing materialist atheism, despite the claims we so often hear amplified
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In the Bioethics Weekly: + Our Most Read Content + + Celebrities and Surrogacy + + AI Claims Its First Casualty + + Abortion and Scripture + + Death Pods https://t.co/8N0YIiPgRK + The AI Genetics Revolution Is Coming + Autism Is Not a Single Condition and Has No Single Cause,
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CURIOUS ABOUT OUR MOST-READ CONTENT? Trending articles include: AI Claims Its First Casualty https://t.co/riPBzfASD3 Abortion and Scripture, Part 1: A Whole-Life Pro-Life Stance in Biblical Law https://t.co/B3SSo1Vbdn Celebrities and Surrogacy https://t.co/80Wzwbs0j1 Death
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We’ve just finished our latest Cohort, The Ethics of Life & Death. In case you weren’t able to participate, here is a small sampling of the resources we shared with the group: Hans Madueme, “Thinking Theologically About Bioethics,” Dignitas 18, no. 3 (2011)
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