Venus Rising with Walt Heyer

 

Venus Rising With Walt Heyer: Understanding "Sex-Change" Regret Welcome back to Venus Rising, now available on  Spotify, iTunes, and Podomatic. Walt Heyer is a husband, father and corporate executive who underwent “sex change” surgery as an adult at the age of 42 and lived his life pretending to be a woman for eight years. Restored now for over 30 years, Walt uses his unique experience to help others who regret their so-called “gender change” and to advocate for and protect children from irreversible medical interventions. Walt has shared his story and written for The Daily Wire, USAToday, the Washington Time, as well as others. Walt’s latest book, Trans Life Survivors, offers up-to-date research and 30 representative stories from the thousands of people who have contacted him for help through his website, SexChangeRegret.com. Walt’s story is told in his autobiography titled, A Transgender’s Faith, and has been the subject of numerous documentaries. Walt and his wife of 25 years work together to share his story of redemption and message of hope throughout the world. You can read and watch more about walt on his website https://waltheyer.com Even War in Ukraine Won't Stop Big Fertility by Jennifer Lahl, CBC President We have reported often on the global baby markets of eggs for sale and wombs for rent. In addition to these topics, we must add consciousness of the growing baby markets fueled by reproductive tourism industry to our ethical reflection.  Reproductive tourism happens because laws vary from country to country and state to state. Some countries prohibit the buying of eggs and /or the renting of wombs.  Other countries allow it but with various forms of regulations.  For example, in the state of Colorado, anonymous egg and sperm selling is no longer permitted.  Some have suggested removing anonymity cuts into the market as the vendor’s providing gametes and the purchasers of their gametes don’t want children born of these transactions to have access to or knowledge of their biological parents.  Where Spain does not allow surrogacy in any form (altruistic or commercial), it does allow women to sell their eggs.  But the Spanish are allowed to travel internationally to rent wombs, and their children will be recognized as citizens of Spain upon birth. Like Spain, Italy doesn’t permit surrogacy but allows women to truly donate their eggs – no payment.  Continue reading here... Surrogacy Bills to Watch in 2023 by Kallie Fell, CBC Executive Director We have fought for years, trying to abolish surrogacy in the United States and abroad. It has been a grizzly battle and oftentimes, as in New York, we face frustration and defeat. It doesn’t keep us from doing our work to protect women and children from the greedy hands of #BigFertilty. In December of 2022, new legislation at the federal level was introduced “to prohibit the limitation of access to assisted reproductive technology, and all medically necessary care surrounding such technology”.  We are following the progress of this bill, called S.5276 – Right to Build Families Act of 2022, very closely. Since then, in January 2023, HB 1151 and SB 5204 have been introduced in Washington State mandating “health plans to provide coverage for the diagnosis of infertility, treatment for infertility, and standard fertility preservation services.”  Each of these bills have one thing in common, they have dangerously vague language, which sets the stage for all sorts of coverage options when it comes to infertility, including the utilization of surrogacy. We believe this vague language is intentional as well, so that as new high-profit technology advances, anything goes. Continue reading here... Donate to the CBC!Donate to the CBC! Our mailing address is: Center for Bioethics and Culture 3380 Vincent Rd STE HUB Pleasant Hill, CA 94523-4324