People with disabilities know that. once assisted suicide becomes normalized, the categories of killable people will expand well beyond the terminally ill.
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Burrows proposes an approach he calls “just preservation,” which would treat wild animals as the moral and legal equals of humans.
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When researching Forced Exit (1997), I found that the hospice sector in the euthanasia-friendly Netherlands was stunted, compared with other countries.
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Suicide is increasingly seen as an empowering act. This is the darkness into which the euthanasia movement is taking jurisdictions, some faster, some slower.
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If more scientists follow Anna Krylov’s lead in simply severing ties from journals that are being politicized, reform may follow.
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Facilitating drug abuse — which is what “harm reduction” does — causes terrible harm, often to the people it purports to help.
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The country has increased life expectancy through orthodox means such lifestyle and healthcare improvement. But some of the research seeks more.
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We shouldn’t be surprised, as advocates oppose the right of medical conscience that would allow professionals to opt out of all complicity in killing patients.
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This bill vividly illustrates the authoritarian impulses of the “nature rights” movement specifically and its embrace of toxic anti-humanism generally.
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The ultimate destination for assisted suicide will be the creation of a fundamental right to be made dead, regardless of the reason, i.e., death on demand.
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Embryology tells us that the unborn child is a human organism — distinct from but dependent upon his or her mother.
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Like so much of contemporary “nature rights” advocacy, this is nonsense. A forest does not have agency and can’t author anything. It is incapable of creative acts.
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There are plenty of dramatic stories illustrating the abuses and dangers of assisted suicide, just waiting to be told, but Hollywood won’t tell them.
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All ethical boundaries are being obliterated as reproductive technologists manipulate the creation of new human life to fulfill any parental desire.
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This article is republished from National Review with the permission of the author. Public-advocacy-focused secular bioethics is largely progressive politics covered with a veneer of expertise. While there are certainly university courses and degrees in the field, no bioethicist is licensed as such. Indeed, the entire discourse is purely subjective. It is driven mostly by philosophers, professors, doctors, and lawyers who opine about a particular set of issues, your faithful correspondent included. But now, members of the tribe apparently want to pretend that secular bioethics has become such a deeply ingrained part of our societal bedrock that it qualifies as a moral tradition. From, “Bioethics as an Emerging Moral Tradition and Some Implications for Adversarial Cooperation,” published in the influential Journal Read More ›
Euthanasia becomes the easier path once we objectify the lives of patients and demote them from full equality into a killable caste.
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In the world of commodified reproduction, the babies manufactured in the lab with such great effort can be aborted through the ninth month in many jurisdictions
Read More ›One joint euthanasia homicide in Belgium of an elderly couple was arranged by their son so the children could avoid future caregiving.
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Liberal leaders of popular culture usually boost assisted suicide when they take a side. I hope her advocacy convinces the Lords to kill the bill, not the ill.
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What “reciprocal duties” do waterways have toward us? Rivers are not alive. Waters are not our “living relatives.” They are geological features.
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