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Close-up of CRISPR technology in action, DNA strands glowing under advanced lab lighting

In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) and the Human Industrial Revolution

To stand against IVF is not easy, because it provides infertile couples the blessed opportunity to conceive children. But it is the door into new and hellish bioethics
In a world beset by a growing chasm between the strong and the weak, IVF offers technology to manufacture men and women on scale and on special order. Read More ›
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As Euthanasia Looms, How to Save the Hospice Movement

Often now people approach me after a speech or call in on talk radio to tell me that they do not trust hospice to properly care for their loved ones.
Leading palliative care doctor Ira Byock offers four proposals to address the current problems with hospice care. Read More ›
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Vial with the word euthanasia on it.

The Callous Cruelty of Canadian Euthanasia Illustrated

A death doctor was willing to kill Paula, despite knowing that many of her problems were social
A church minister quieted her fears and told her that she should "just let go of this empty, empty world.” Read More ›
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pour ou contre l'euthanasie ?

Wesley J. Smith: Why Is Assisted Suicide So Popular So Suddenly?

Smith argues that the purpose of society itself is shifting for many people
In Canada, many stories attest that euthanasia is now routinely offered to those requesting medical care. Read More ›
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France: Assisted Suicide on the March

Right-to-die campaigners have welcomed the law, though describing it as relatively modest in scope.
“It’s a foot in the door, which will be important for what comes next,” said Stéphane Gemmani of the ADMD association. Read More ›
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Syringe with anaesthetic drug - Propofol, ready for infusion.

The Lies in New York’s Assisted Suicide Bill

New York is close to passing a bill to legalize assisted suicide. Having passed the assembly, it is currently being considered in the senate
Falsifying death certificates, for example, prevents transparency. Investigators will be unable to access the information they need to conduct independent studies. Read More ›
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Bioethics And The Law

Bioethics: Just Another Social-Justice Political Movement Now?

A new survey shows how the movement has swung toward pushing woke “social justice” initiatives as its primary purpose
Respondents overwhelmingly wanted an even more monolithic approach to social justice through what could be argued as an indoctrinating approach to education. Read More ›
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Estonia’s Supreme Court Declares a Right to Suicide

At least these rulings candidly cut through the toxic smoke so often generated by assisted-suicide advocates
Such rulings demonstrate that the real goal/destination is a right to death by any competent person for any cause and assisted by anyone. Read More ›
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Human Kidney Suppliers Should Be Donors, Not Vendors

The government would be, essentially, paying people to harm themselves. People who are already disadvantaged would be most likely to volunteer
There are ample reasons why only one country in the world — Iran — allows kidney-selling. Not everything should be a sellable product. Read More ›
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A Compassionate Doctor Keeps Hope Alive

As this story shows, sometimes the hope is not for a cure so much as for assurance that the patient has not been abandoned
There are signs of a needed pushback against a bioethics-driven “just check all the boxes” approach to terminal care where the need for hope is brushed aside. Read More ›
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Beauty injection concept. Syringe with violet liquid for hypodermic injection.

New Jersey Program Aims to Prevent Suicide— Just Not All Suicides

In New Jersey, the self-terminations of people with a prognosis of six months or less ceases to be “suicide” when facilitated by a doctor
Yet terminally ill patients opt for assisted suicide typically because of issues such as fears of burdening family, losing dignity, not untreatable pain. Read More ›
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Famed Ethics Prof Endorses Suicide for Old People in New York Times

Peter Singer supports suicide not just for those who are ill now but who fear that they might become so
Do the philosophers not understand how bigoted and anti-intrinsic dignity of life their relativistic assumptions are about when a life is worth continuing? Read More ›
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How ‘Expedience Ethics’ Busts Through Moral Limits

Under the new definition, an embryo isn’t considered an embryo if it is to be used as research fodder rather than gestated. Read More ›
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Enteral feeding dropper and a old man patient in the hospital with oxygen mask in the background

Bioethicists Get Legacy of Terri Schiavo Death Wrong

Some bioethicists complain that her protracted starvation death has powered pro-life forces into political prominence
In reality, after the Schiavo case encouraged acceptance, majorities supported such deaths and people with severe brain injuries became a disposable caste. Read More ›
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John West’s New Book Stockholm Syndrome Looks at Francis Collins

It’s not possible to reconcile Collins’s treatment of unborn children with a Christian view of them
The genome mapper is widely cited as a famous Christian in science but West asks us to look a little deeper — into his actual policies. Read More ›
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Vials with Sodium pentobarbital used for euthanasia and lethal inyecion in a hospital, conceptual image

Swiss Canton Liberates Suicide Tourism from Police Investigation

Suicidal people are increasingly abandoned to lethal assistance, with steps continually taken to make death easier to access
Predictably, assisted suicides are provided under ever-lessening oversight, to ever-expanding cadres of the eligible, leading eventually to death on demand. Read More ›
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Pharmacy Drugstore Checkout Cashier Counter: Mature Female Pharmacist and Young Woman Using Contactless Payment NFC Smartphone to Buy Prescription Medicine, Vitamins, Beauty, Health Care Products

Oregon Bill Would Allow Nondoctors to Prescribe Assisted Suicide

I suspect the categories of providers are expanding because most doctors have no interest in assisted suicide
Usefully, however, the Oregon bill also requires hospices to say whether they participate in assisted suicide, contrary to hospice founders’ intentions. Read More ›
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Syringe with anaesthetic drug - Propofol, ready for infusion.

Vermont Bill Would Allow Nondoctors to Prescribe Assisted Suicide

Initial assisted suicide laws are merely the launching pad for an ever-expanding prescribed death regime
“Strict guidelines” against abuse sell such laws to the public but they are never the ceiling of permissibility. The rules are loosened more and more. Read More ›
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Mountain Goats and Hidden lake, Glacier National Park, Montana USA

Montana Senate Passes Bill Outlawing Physician-Assisted Suicide

In a muddled legal situation, the bill declares assisted suicide to be contrary to Montana public policy, making a previous courtroom defense unavailable
Legislation like this must be carefully written because assisted-suicide activists frequently redefine terms and obfuscate crucial distinctions. Read More ›
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Gen AI: A Neutral Tool? Let’s Look More Closely

All technologies change us. Some technologies change us in ways where the harms far outweigh any benefits.
GenAI is not neutral. It rides on our God-given gift of language, builds trust that leaves us open to deception, and changes us in ways we don’t notice. Read More ›