Canadian Town Grants Rights to Trees
As usual in these cases, the argument supporting such nonsense is irrationalOf course trees are alive but they have very little else in common with human beings beyond consisting of carbon molecules.
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Wesley J. Smith
Twelve-Year-Old Euthanized in the Netherlands: Not a First
Dutch teenagers have also been euthanized over the years, including some with mental illnessesThe issue isn’t whether children are euthanized so much as whether doctors and nurse practitioners should be permitted under the law to kill patients or assist their suicides regardless of the patients’ age.
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Americans of Two Minds About the ‘Moral Acceptability’ of Suicide
A recent Gallup survey found that most considered suicide morally unacceptable — unless doctors are involvedThe moral stigma against suicide prevents many deaths — which is why assisted suicide activists don’t call it suicide.
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Another ‘Scientific’ Attack on Free Will
We know free will exists because we each experience it every day.Accepting that we are merely flesh marionettes dancing to the strings pulled by our various biological processes would doom human decency.
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Suicide Clinic Helping Grieving Mother Die Promotes Death-on-Demand Culture
She attempted to take her own life after her son died four years ago.It seems to me the only defense is to refuse assisted-suicide legalization, regardless of the cause.
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RFK Jr. Calls Assisted Suicide Laws ‘Abhorrent’
It targets people with disabilities and people who are struggling in their lives.We can’t “be a moral society around the globe” if assisted suicide/euthanasia “becomes institutionalized throughout our society.”
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Activists Want Fewer Animal — but More Human — Deaths by Euthanasia
Dangerous animals that have attacked humans should be euthanized.A bill has been put in the hopper in the California State Senate promoting “coexistence” between people and wild animals.
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Bioethicists Argue That an Unborn Baby is Merely a ‘Gestator’s’ Body Part
This ongoing debate is acutely relevant to future abortion public policy.The article, which is complex and arcane in the extreme, does not reach final moral conclusions about abortion, but it does give away the ultimate pro-abortion game that is afoot in this argumentation.
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Autistic Teenager Euthanized in the Netherlands
The boy, aged between 16 and 18, had described his life as “joyless.”The boy, aged between 16 and 18, had described his life as “joyless.” He’d struggled with anxiety and mood-related problems, and where he fit in, in the world.
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Allow Euthanasia for the Mentally Ill or They Will Commit Suicide
The result will be more mentally ill Canadians dying by suicide.The idea here is that a “suicide” will be potentially messier and/or perhaps less successful than a doctor or nurse administering a lethal jab.
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Study: Adolescents Who Received Gender Reassignment Have Worse Mental Health
Those referred after 2010 had greater psychiatric needs than earlier cohorts.The effects of medical GR and the expectations of the patient must be addressed before commencing the treatment.
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Human Uterus Kept Functioning Outside the Body for Experiments
The team members want to keep donated human uteruses alive long enough to see a full menstrual cycle.The plan ultimately is to manufacture human life solely for experimenting upon, toward the utilitarian end of making embryos and fetuses that might eventually be used for “fetal farming”.
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Force Pregnant Girls to Have Abortions, Says Ethics Article
The authors coin a term, “antigirlism,” to describe young females as victims.Both opponents of abortion and liberal defenders of a woman’s right to control her own body make a mistake in relation to impregnated children.
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Wisconsin Governor Vetoes Anti–’Nature Rights’ Legislation
The nature-rights movement is ultimately about thwarting human enterprise.Most such laws grant anyone who believes nature’s rights to have been violated standing in court to bring suit, opening the door to extreme lawfare and making it almost impossible to obtain liability insurance.
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University Pushes ‘Tree Rights’
As we have seen before, “tree rights” advocacy principles are steeped in mysticism and neo-paganism.“Tree rights” is a subset of the overarching “nature rights” movement, which also includes “river rights,” “ocean rights,” and even “rights for the moon.”
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Euthanasia of the Mentally Ill Increasing in the Netherlands
Requests for euthanasia on psychiatric grounds have risen sharplyThe Dutch experiment with psychiatric euthanasia, particularly in youth, can no longer be described as cautious, balanced, or exemplary.
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U.K. Hospital Unilaterally Cuts Off Life Support of Disabled Patient over Family Objections
The 68-year-old suffered extensive brain damageWhat makes life worth living does not require unique medical expertise that only a physician can provide. It is an issue of religious faith, philosophy, morality, and personal belief.
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Mentally Ill Woman Accessed Assisted Suicide in Oregon
A troubling look at how systemic gaps enabled a vulnerable woman to obtain lethal drugs unchecked.They learned that Mihich’s body bore no signs of illness; she had been suffering, but she had not been on the verge of death.
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Did Gavin Newsom Witness His Mother’s Murder?
A memoir reveals the governor’s most personal account yet: his mother’s decision to end her life.Despite the obvious emotional pain caused in witnessing his mother’s killing, Newsom says that he strongly supports legalizing assisted suicide.
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Woman Euthanized and Her Face Transplanted in Spain
Do you see what happened? There were apparently no efforts at suicide prevention to keep the patient in lifeFrom what the story discloses, the primary focus of the medical team became the 3-D planning and preparation for the surgery after the killing.
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