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SPEAKERS GENERAL SESSION I
Wesley Smith’s writing and opinion columns on assisted suicide, bioethics, legal ethics, and public affairs have appeared in numerous national and regional publications throughout the country, including Newsweek, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Weekly Standard, National Review, New York Post, Detroit News, among many others. Smith, an international lecturer and public speaker, has appeared on television or radio talk/interview programs and at political, university, medical, legal, disability rights, and bioethics events across the United States, Europe, Canada, South Africa, and Australia. KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Tom George received his M.D. from the University of Michigan Medical School in 1982, where in 1985 he also completed a post-graduate residency in the specialty of Anesthesiology. He has held his State of Michigan medical license since 1982. A practicing physician in the Kalamazoo area since 1985, Tom served as the medical director for Hospice of Greater Kalamazoo from 1996 until 2001. GENERAL SESSION II
John has also written articles related to infertility, embryo donation and adoption for magazines such as Christianity Today, Moody, New Man and Resolve. His article titled, Frozen Out: What To Do With Those Extra Embryos was published in the July 2004 issue of Christianity Today. More recently, John and Sylvia have written a book titled: Embryo Adoption and Embryo Donation: Loving Choices for Christians (Publish America, 2007).
Adoption had previously played an important role in the Bells’ lives. Mike was adopted as a child and the Bells’ first child, Leah, was adopted as an infant through traditional adoption. Paige Bell and Mike Bell Jr. should remind us that there is no such thing as a spare embryo and the life of every human being, born and unborn, is a precious gift.
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Wesley J. Smith is a lawyer, an award winning author, a senior fellow in bioethics at the Discovery Institute, an attorney for the International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide, and a special consultant for the Center for Bioethics and Culture. In 2004 he was named by the National Journal as one of the nation’s top expert thinkers in bioengineering.
Tom George was elected to the 20th District of the Michigan Senate in 2002 after serving one term in the House of Representatives. He has received Legislator of the Year awards from the Michigan Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, the Michigan Association of Health Plans, as well as a Friend of Diabetes and Kidney Health Care award from the American Diabetes Association, the Michigan Diabetes Outreach Network and the National Kidney Foundation of Michigan.
John Van Regenmorter is the Director of Christian Life for Bethany Christian Services in Grand Rapids and of Stepping Stones, a ministry of Bethany Christian Services. John and his wife, Sylvia, are co-authors of the book, When the Cradle is Empty: Answering Tough Questions About Infertility (published by Focus on the Family, April 2004). John travels across the country speaking about infertility and adoption, and recently at the national conference Emerging Issues With Embryo Donation and Adoption in Washington, D.C.
Those in favor of embryonic stem cell research often claim human embryos killed for research will just be thrown away anyway. Mike and Nicole Bell of Traverse City, Michigan, want to let people know adoption is another life-affirming option for frozen human embryos. On January 13, 2006, Nicole gave birth to twins, a girl named Paige and a boy named Mike Jr., whom the Bells adopted as embryos.