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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 life

From 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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Animal Research Points to Potential Pancreatic Cancer Cure

Balancing compassion with the scientific realities behind lifesaving medical progress

I am eager for the number of animals used in experiments to be reduced as much as possible — but only to an extent consistent with assuring scientific progress.

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Bioethicist: Let surgeons kill patients during organ harvesting

What a new wave of bioethical arguments means for patients, doctors, and the future of organ donation

Jumping on a grenade to save other soldiers is not the same as the soldiers throwing that person on the grenade, which would be more akin to a surgeon killing for organs.

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How Far Will Experimenting on the Unborn Go?

We have been told by some bioethicists that a born baby is no different morally than a fetus, so why stop there?

Some will ask, if we can artificially gestate fetuses to that stage, why not harvest them for organs? That has already been proposed. Repeatedly.

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NY Governor Hochul to Sign Assisted-Suicide Legalization Bill

Liberalization started even before the bill was signed

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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Human kidney and money. Buy and sell human organ, healthcare, medical expenses concept

Purchasers of Black-Market Human Organs Often Complicit in Murder

A story from Nigeria sheds sobering light

In addition to imprisoning the operators of these criminal conspiracies, we should pass laws explicitly making it a crime to purchase organs from overseas

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Euthanasia Medical Intervention

U.K. Hospices Collapsing as Government Pushes Assisted Suicide

Assisted suicide/euthanasia will surely be seen as a splendid way to save money by erasing expensive patients, even if not terminally ill

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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German Identical Twins Receive Death on Demand

People Magazine seems eager to platform the idea of death on demand

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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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

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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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

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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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

Embryology tells us that the unborn child is a human organism — distinct from but dependent upon his or her mother.

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For a Long Time, Dementia Was the New Leprosy

It has often been treated with fear and exclusion. Maybe there is more hope now

Dementia is not “inevitable,” in the sense that it would happen no matter what else is in play. Nature is rarely like that. Decisions matter.

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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?

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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Radical Reproduction Turns Children Into Products

We are entering a world in which babies can be special-ordered

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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Hippocrates of Kos (or Cos, or Kos) was an ancient Greek physician, geographer and aphorist, considered the father of scientific medicine

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 ›

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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

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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Another Radical Reproductive Technology

Researchers have created human eggs from skin cells and successfully fertilized some of them with IVF

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

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