The earliest Christian ethical writing dating from about 100 — the Didache — explicitly condemns “murder” as profoundly sinful.
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In the Western tradition human rights have been said to exist independently of the state because they have been based upon human dignity.
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Without this conviction there is no logical ground for supporting human rights in the United States or elsewhere; there is no logical ground for human rights at all.
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The issue isn’t whether children are euthanized so much as whether doctors and nurse practitioners should be permitted under the law to kill patients or assist their suicides regardless of the patients’ age.
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Everyone believes in free will, including Coyne. He writes sophistry denying free will but he rails at the moral reprobate who dented his fender.
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Bioethicist Brandon Ambrosino reacts to the physicians’ protest and promotes the very de-professionalization that the original article decried.
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The moral stigma against suicide prevents many deaths — which is why assisted suicide activists don’t call it suicide.
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Biotech companies agree to ban or voluntarily refrain from doing that which can’t yet be done but conduct the very experiments necessary to learn how to do it.
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It seems to me the only defense is to refuse assisted-suicide legalization, regardless of the cause.
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We can’t “be a moral society around the globe” if assisted suicide/euthanasia “becomes institutionalized throughout our society.”
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A bill has been put in the hopper in the California State Senate promoting “coexistence” between people and wild animals.
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The article, which is complex and arcane in the extreme, does not reach final moral conclusions about abortion, but it does give away the ultimate pro-abortion game that is afoot in this argumentation.
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The boy, aged between 16 and 18, had described his life as “joyless.” He’d struggled with anxiety and mood-related problems, and where he fit in, in the world.
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The idea here is that a “suicide” will be potentially messier and/or perhaps less successful than a doctor or nurse administering a lethal jab.
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The plan ultimately is to manufacture human life solely for experimenting upon, toward the utilitarian end of making embryos and fetuses that might eventually be used for “fetal farming”.
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Both opponents of abortion and liberal defenders of a woman’s right to control her own body make a mistake in relation to impregnated children.
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The Dutch experiment with psychiatric euthanasia, particularly in youth, can no longer be described as cautious, balanced, or exemplary.
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What makes life worth living does not require unique medical expertise that only a physician can provide. It is an issue of religious faith, philosophy, morality, and personal belief.
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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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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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