Columnist Don Feder / 1st Snowflake Baby Hannah Strege - The Tami Jackson Show -

Published: Jan. 31, 2018, 4:06 a.m.

My first guest on the Tami Jackson Show* tonight will be Don Feder.\nDon Feder was a Boston Herald editorial writer and syndicated columnist from June 1983 to June 2002. For 19 years, his column appeared in the Herald, New England\u2019s second largest newspaper.\n\nFeder\u2019s column was syndicated by Creator\u2019s Syndicate in Los Angeles, and carried by more than 40 newspapers and e-magazines nationwide.\n\nHis writings have appeared in USA TODAY, The Wall Street Journal, The Weekly Standard, National Review, American Enterprise, Readers Digest, Front Page Magazine, Insight, and Human Events. The author of two books \u2013 A Jewish Conservative Looks at Pagan America (1993) and Who\u2019s Afraid of the Religious Right? (1996), Feder has traveled extensively in Europe, Latin America, and Asia. He was in Belgrade two weeks after the bombing ended in 1999.\n\nFeder is the 1998 recipient of the International Communications Award of the Republic of China on Taiwan and the winner of the first-place prize in the Amy Foundation Writing Awards for 1993. The Amy Foundation recognizes writers who project Biblical truths in the secular media.\n\nFeder has addressed the annual conventions or meetings of the Rabbinical Council of America, Concerned Women for America, Toward Tradition, the Christian Coalition, Nation Right to Life Committee, the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), the College Republicans, the Council for National Policy, the Heritage Foundation, Family Research Council, the Interfaith Zionist Leadership Summit, the World Affairs Councils of Boston and Portland, Maine, World Congress of Families II (Geneva, 1999) III (Mexico City, 2004) and IV (Warsaw, 2007), as well as the Values Voter Summit, and recently, the\xa045th Assembly for Life in Massachusetts.\n\nFeder has lectured or debated at Harvard, Dartmouth, Princeton, Hillsdale College, Bates College, Carlton College, Grove City College, NYU, Regent University, UCLA, Hampshire College, The University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Boston University and Boston College.\n\nHe has appeared on network and syndicated radio and television shows, including \u201cThe O\u2019Reilly Factor, \u201c \u201cC-Span,\u201d \u201cPolitically Incorrect,\u201d \u201cThe 700 Club,\u201d \u201cFocus on the Family,\u201d \u201cBeverly LaHaye Live,\u201d \u201cCoral Ridge Ministries,\u201d \u201cFox& Friends,\u201d and Jerry Falwell\u2019s \u201cListen America.\u201d His columns have been read on the air by Rush Limbaugh, Dr. Laura and Michael Savage.\n\nFeder is a 1969 graduate of the Boston University College of Liberal Arts and a 1972 graduate of the Boston University Law School. He is admitted to the practice of law in New York and Massachusetts.\n\nDon Feder is also World Congress of Families Communications Director, as well as the Communications Director of the documentary: \u201cDemographic Winter: the decline of the human family.\u201d\n\nDon't miss a minute as Don and I talk about his recent address to the 45th Assembly for Life organized by Massachusetts Citizens for Life, posted in the article, "The View from Sinai \u2013 A Jewish Perspective on Abortion," and about the mission of the World Congress of Families.\n\n********************************\n\nMy second guest tonight will be Hannah Strege.\nHannah Strege is the world's first Snowflake Baby!\n\nAs written at the Whittier Daily News:\n\nIn many ways, Hannah Strege is the typical teenager on the verge of adulthood.\n\nThe 19-year-old is a college freshman who likes to listen to music, go shopping with her mom and out to the movies \u2014 preferably romantic comedies \u2014 with friends at the spur of the moment.\n\nBut her entry into this world was anything but typical.\n\nTwenty years ago, she was the first frozen embryo to be adopted.\n\nHannah's parents,\xa0John and Marlene Strege, had been through a long process of trying to have a child. They discussed treatment options with their physician.\n\nSince the advent of Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART) fertility clinics have been assisting patients to achieve pregnancy through a treatment known as in vitro fertilization (IVF). Often, more embryos are created for the IVF treatment than are eventually used by the patient, thus creating a surplus of cryo-preserved embryos. Marlene asked her clinic if they had available embryos in frozen storage.\n\n\nHannah with Dr. James Dobson\nMarlene and John had already determined that they were not comfortable with creating more embryos through IVF, especially if it meant using donated human eggs. But this idea of using embryos that were waiting in frozen storage was intriguing. Marlene decided to seek out advice from a life-long friend and experienced adoption attorney, Ron Stoddart and from several spiritual advisors, including Dr. James Dobson, to determine if using donated human embryos should be considered at all.\n\nSimply being assigned anonymously donated embryos from a fertility clinic was not the procedure John and Marlene wanted to follow.\n\nThey worked with Mr. Stoddart to develop the first embryo adoption program in the world, now known as the Snowflakes\xae\xa0Embryo Adoption Program. The Streges and Stoddart decided to name the program\xa0Snowflakes\xa0because like a delicate snowflake each embryo is frozen, unique and a gift from God. The program was officially established in 1997 as a division of Nightlight\xae Christian Adoptions.\n\nHannah was born in December 31, 1998, and this year is a freshman at BIOLA University.\n\nListen as Hannah and I discuss her amazing story, the current situation with stem cell research and the larger battle for a culture of life in America!\n\nFollow Don Feder\xa0Facebook,\xa0Hannah Strege\xa0on Twitter at @h_strege, and me at @tamij AND tweet your questions/comments during the show !\n*Sponsored by Rentacomputer, your premier\xa0source for Sound System rentals , by ROBAR\xae Guns, a True Custom firearms and firearms finishing shop\xa0located in Phoenix, AZ, and found online at RobarGuns.com, and by Dispatches, your site for the BEST conservative resources to fight and win the information war.