And imagine the mischief when eventually everyone’s genome — which should be private — becomes identifiable and hackable.
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Aiding poorer areas of the world to develop scientific infrastructure is a terrific idea but, alas, that’s not what the authors have in mind.
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I think the ultimate goal is to boost employment in the bioethics field. The more issues are deemed bioethical, the greater need for bioethics professors.
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Plant philosophy seeks to change the definitional understandings of “intelligence” to elevate the moral status of plants relative to humans.
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Once the legalization train leaves the station, it is no longer containable or controllable. The category of “killables” never stops expanding.
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My mother died of Alzheimer’s, and she was never less than fully human and as worthy of love and regard when she became incompetent.
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The myth that legal assisted suicide is about terminal illness is becoming harder to swallow. Evidence can be found in a recent survey of doctors, published in the Journal of Cutaneous Oncology, which asked doctors this question: “In addition to adults with terminal illnesses, [which] other groups of patients who should be MAID eligible?” The answers are disturbing. From the survey: Majorities of doctors surveyed answered that they would be willing to be present when the deed is done. Here’s the question: “If it were available (or is available), what is your willingness to be present when patients took MAID drugs?” Again, disturbing results, with 61% either probably or definitely, yes: That’s only a hop, skip, and a jump to willingness to do the deed. And no Read More ›
To her credit, reporter Sharon Kirkey at least provides a brief counterpoint to the pro-euthanasia narrative, something often entirely missing in many media.
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Why not allow the profitable Teton tourist area to to return to a natural state as a forest on the mountain, as is, apparently, its inherent right?
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Quebec’s chief coroner promises an investigation. Don’t expect much to come of it.
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Such compassion is on the outs in these “enlightened” days. Indeed, it may now be that more babies with Down syndrome are killed in the womb than are born.
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The court did not rule — as Glucksberg did not about states — that countries cannot legalize assisted suicide or euthanasia.
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In reality, the public’s loss of “belief” is the natural consequence of the international system’s failing and betraying those it was designed to serve.
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I don’t smoke, but I am wary of efforts to prevent other people from so doing. Now, blue cities — and soon states, most likely — have hit upon a way to ban smoking known as “Tobacco Free Generation” (TFG). It’s Pretty Clever Allow people who can legally buy tobacco today to purchase it, but permanently outlaw the sale of tobacco products to people based on the date of their birth — even as they become adults — as described glowingly in the New England Journal of Medicine: The bylaw, passed by Brookline, Massachusetts, gradually phases out commercial tobacco by banning the sale of nicotine products to anyone born on or after January 1, 2000 (one of us cosponsored the bylaw). Read More ›
If the law grants geological features, viruses, and pond scum “rights,” our economies and human exceptionalism will be the victims.
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This article is reprinted from National Review with the permission of the author. Our most august medical journals are in danger of becoming more woke ideological-advocacy publications than disseminators of learned scientific studies. This is particularly true of the New England Journal of Medicine, which regularly publishes progressive gibberish pushing “equity” that is often nearly impossible to understand. Here’s the latest example. From “Keep Your Eyes on the Prize — Focusing on Health Care Equity”: We believe that health care–centric goals — equity in patient experience and clinical outcomes — should be the primary equity-related targets for clinicians, health care administrators, health plans, and payers. The health care sector is best positioned to improve the effectiveness and equity of the care it Read More ›
Human uniqueness is essential to our duties to each other, our posterity, the humane treatment of animals, and proper husbanding of the environment.
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It seems to me that the best approach to the policy opinions of mainstream bioethicists is to consider the source, shrug, and carry on.
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Indeed, it is our obligation as humans to benefit from the earth’s bounties in responsible ways. But nature rights would stifle our ability to thrive and shrivel the principle of human rights.
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Euthanasia isn’t really about compassion but fear of decline and a loathing of dependency — and of those experiencing them. That nasty truth has become abundantly clear with a new column published in the Times of London in which former Tory MP Matthew Parris argues that euthanasia/assisted suicide should not only be permitted — but encouraged. In “We Can’t Afford a Taboo on Assisted Dying,” he writes (my emphasis): I can’t dispute the objectors’ belief that once assisted dying becomes normalized we will become more apt to ask yourselves for how much longer we can justify the struggle. An Unjustifiable Life The word “justify” is telling. It does not only concern the suffering of the person who is ill, disabled, or elderly but the suffering Read More ›