CategoryEthics
German Identical Twins Receive Death on Demand
People Magazine seems eager to platform the idea of death on demand
Scottish Proposal Would Ban Assisted Suicide Prevention
The vague proposal would forbid any attempts to “influence” a person’s decision to undergo an assisted suicide, such as through conversation with a family member or the display of a suicide prevention poster
Assisted-Suicide Slippery Slope Keeps Slip-Sliding Away
“Strengthen safety,” and “fairer and more compassionate,” really just means more people can become dead much sooner
Medical Journal Screed Decries All Fetal Personhood Laws
The authors imply that laws that protect unborn children are racist. But pro-lifers want more black babies born and protected from harm, not fewer
For a Long Time, Dementia Was the New Leprosy
It has often been treated with fear and exclusion. Maybe there is more hope now
Hollywood A Listers To Star in a Pro-Assisted Suicide Movie
How many pro-euthanasia movies/TV episodes have there been? How many with the opposite message?
Radical Reproduction Turns Children Into Products
We are entering a world in which babies can be special-ordered
Contrary to Claims, Bioethics Is Not a ‘Moral Tradition’
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 ›
Canadian Dementia Patient Euthanized at Family’s Request
My mother died of Alzheimer’s. I could have easily maneuvered her into a situation where she would have seemed to have consented to assisted suicide
Another Radical Reproductive Technology
Researchers have created human eggs from skin cells and successfully fertilized some of them with IVFElderly Couple Avoids Widowhood by Assisted Suicide
The British couple sent emails to announce their decision to end their lives at a Swiss clinic
J. K. Rowling Comes Out Against Legalizing Assisted Suicide
The mega author , of Harry Potter fame, is definitely a political liberal
Will We Care For or Kill Dementia Patients?
I believe that people need to be aware of the unthinkable actions, once (properly) deemed abandonment, that are now being advocated at the highest levels of cultural influence
Wielding ALS Suffering to Expand Assisted Suicide into Euthanasia
The most effective opponents of assisted suicide are disability rights activists because they — correctly, in my view — see the movement as discriminating against them
Part 2: What If We Apply Harris’s “No Lies” Rule to Warfare?
As a former defense contractor, let me offer a view from reality
Kilmeade: ‘Just Kill’ Mentally Ill Homeless Who Refuse Help
Kilmeade, who later offered a terse apology, is not a would-be TikTok influencer. He is a major personality on the country’s most watched cable news channel
California: Experiments on People with ‘Life-Shortening’ Conditions
“Life-shortening” conditions is not the same thing as "terminally ill"
Lying: Sam Harris Buckled Under the Weight of Absolutism
Part 1: Having written a book on why it is always wrong to lie, he shamelessly buckled when a particular outcome mattered to him