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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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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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 ›
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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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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One joint euthanasia homicide in Belgium of an elderly couple was arranged by their son so the children could avoid future caregiving.
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Liberal leaders of popular culture usually boost assisted suicide when they take a side. I hope her advocacy convinces the Lords to kill the bill, not the ill.
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Thaddeus Mason Pope’s argument is an argument not to avoid suffering but to not be a “burden” and to put oneself out of loved ones’ misery.
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My late friend Robert Salamanca had ALS (I met him as a hospice volunteer) and was furious that people like him were used by activists to further the death agenda.
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Sam Harris treats every lie as if it predictably spirals into atrocity. But most lies are judged against uncertain futures, not guaranteed horrors.
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Kilmeade — and Fox — should apologize. And perhaps he should work to keep his emotions in check while broadcasting. With great influence comes equal responsibility.
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If such invasive procedures would be deemed unethical for the healthy regardless of consent, then it should be considered wrong to so experiment on the sick.
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If lying breeds chaos, so does truth-telling in the wrong contexts. Prudence, not absolutism, has to govern.
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When dictators adopt transhumanism, it won’t just be Ray Kurzweil trying to upload himself to digital immortality. There will be a very dark side.
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It wouldn’t surprise me if Xi has a political prisoner all tissue-typed and ready to be sliced and diced should the need arise.
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Canada has jumped so enthusiastically into the euthanasia abyss that I have little doubt that infanticide will eventually be allowed there.
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If informed consent and “choice” are to mean anything, abortionists should be duty-bound to inform pregnant women about this risk.
Read More ›MAiD turns some suicides and homicides into a “good.” A 2023 poll found that 28% of Canadians polled favored allowing euthanasia for homelessness.
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Hopefully, the growing hubris of bioethicists who think they can tackle the world’s most intractable problems — even war — will push them into irrelevance.
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A very influential bioethicist supports forcing caregivers to cause death by dehydration and starvation, even when a patient willingly eats.
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