Ep 1171 | Egg Donation Centers Are Exploiting College Girls & Military Wives | Guest: Kallie Fell

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey

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News, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, News Commentary

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🗓️ 14 April 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Today, we sit down with Kallie Fell, the executive director of the Center for Bioethics and Culture Network, to talk about bioethics (or lack thereof) in the assisted reproduction industry. We talk about everything from the lack of long-term health tracking for surrogate mothers and egg sellers to the predatory, exploitative marketing that encourages and exploits these women into selling their DNA and bodies. Kallie tells us about the lack of research into the health effects of IVF and surrogacy and how the little research we have doesn't exactly paint the fertility industry in a positive light. We also discuss some other countries that have banned surrogacy to varying degrees and how we would like to see the United States follow suit in order to protect moms and babies. Share the Arrows 2025 is on October 11 in Dallas, Texas! Go to sharethearrows.com for tickets now! Buy Allie's new book, "Toxic Empathy: How Progressives Exploit Christian Compassion": https://a.co/d/4COtBxy --- Timecodes: (00:51) Kallie Fell introduction (02:16) Working in bioethics (08:23) Women exploited to sell their eggs (18:46) Egg selling & surrogacy health concerns (25:02) Surrogacy advertising & exploitation (31:46) Is consent all that matters? (37:07) IVF/surrogacy complications (40:08) Intended parents for surrogate pregnancies (42:00) Ideal laws around surrogacy (49:43) Other countries banning surrogacy (53:24) IVF and eugenics --- Today's Sponsors: Carly Jean Los Angeles — Go to https://www.carlyjeanlosangeles.com and use code ALLIEB to get 20% off your first CJLA order, site wide (one-time use only) and start filling your closet with timeless staple pieces. Range Leather — highest quality leather, age-old techniques and all backed up with a “forever guarantee." Go to rangeleather.com/allie to receive 15% off. --- Links: The Center for Bioethics & Culture Network: https://cbc-network.org/ CBC Network Documentaries: https://www.youtube.com/@Cbc-networkOrg/featured --- Related Episodes: Ep 919 | No Good Surrogacies: A Surrogacy Baby Speaks Out | Guest: Olivia Maurel https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-919-no-good-surrogacies-a-surrogacy-baby-speaks/id1359249098?i=1000637866783 Ep 1165 | Robot Wombs & Why Gen Z Women Reject Jesus https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-1165-robot-wombs-why-gen-z-women-reject-jesus/id1359249098?i=1000701955148 Ep 836 | Surrogacy Horror: Gay ‘Dads’ Demand Abortion | Guest: Brittney Pearson https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-836-surrogacy-horror-gay-dads-demand-abortion-guest/id1359249098?i=1000620814003 Ep 921 | To the Texas Mom Suing to Abort Her Baby https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-921-to-the-texas-mom-suing-to-abort-her-baby/id1359249098?i=1000638357091 Ep 552 | "Big Fertility" & the Truth Behind The Surrogacy Industry | Guest: Jennifer Lahl https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-552-big-fertility-the-truth-behind-the/id1359249098?i=1000548511958 Ep 659 | How the Fertility & Gender Industries Exploit Girls for Profit | Guest: Jennifer Lahl https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-659-how-the-fertility-gender-industries-exploit/id1359249098?i=1000575803016 --- Buy Allie's book, You're Not Enough (& That's Okay): Escaping the Toxic Culture of Self-Love: https://alliebethstuckey.com/book Relatable merchandise – use promo code 'ALLIE10' for a discount: https://shop.blazemedia.com/collections/allie-stuckey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Who are the men that are renting wombs and buying babies from women in America?
0:07.1	What exactly is the dark underbelly of the IVF and reproductive technology industry in the United States?
0:15.6	We've got Kelly Fell here today.
0:17.5	She is the executive director for the Center of Bioethics and Culture Network. And she is here
0:24.1	to answer some of these questions for us today. We are going to talk about this and so much more on
0:29.1	today's episode of Relatable. It's brought to you by our friends at Good Ranchers. Go to good
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0:48.9	Callie, thanks so much for taking the time to join me.
0:51.7	For those who don't know, can you tell us who you are and what you do?
0:52.3	Yeah.
0:54.1	So my name is Callie Fell. I'm the executive
0:55.1	director for the Center for Bioethics and Culture. I'm also the program director for the Paul
1:02.3	Ramsey Institute, which is our project within the Center for Bioethics and Culture. I'm also a perinatal
1:09.0	nurse. Okay. So tell me about the CBC network. Those who remember
1:14.9	my interviews with Jennifer Law, whom I've had on multiple times, may already know, but there are a lot of
1:21.8	people who are new who have no idea what CBC does. Can you tell us? So the Center for Bioethics and
1:26.6	culture is an educational
1:27.8	nonprofit that was started by our founder, Jennifer Law, in 2000. We've been around for 25 years now.
1:33.3	Wow. And we work in the space of just educating people, educating general public lawmakers
1:38.9	on bioethical issues that most profoundly affect humanity and the vulnerable among us.
1:46.4	We work in the area of making life and faking life, which we can get into later.
1:51.5	But predominantly how we educate is through filmmaking.
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