A vast army of boosters is portraying chatbots as magic when their usefulness is limited by realities that are probably a hard limit.
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It is quite possible to seek good ends (children) by bad means (their industrial manufacture). That’s why Christian ethics are needed.
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If Adriana’s body had been removed from life support, there’d have been two deaths. Can’t we celebrate that, even as we mourn the mother who was lost?
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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.
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Leading palliative care doctor Ira Byock offers four proposals to address the current problems with hospice care.
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A church minister quieted her fears and told her that she should “just let go of this empty, empty world.”
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In Canada, many stories attest that euthanasia is now routinely offered to those requesting medical care.
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“It’s a foot in the door, which will be important for what comes next,” said Stéphane Gemmani of the ADMD association.
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Falsifying death certificates, for example, prevents transparency. Investigators will be unable to access the information they need to conduct independent studies.
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Respondents overwhelmingly wanted an even more monolithic approach to social justice through what could be argued as an indoctrinating approach to education.
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Such rulings demonstrate that the real goal/destination is a right to death by any competent person for any cause and assisted by anyone.
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There are ample reasons why only one country in the world — Iran — allows kidney-selling. Not everything should be a sellable product.
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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.
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Yet terminally ill patients opt for assisted suicide typically because of issues such as fears of burdening family, losing dignity, not untreatable pain.
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Do the philosophers not understand how bigoted and anti-intrinsic dignity of life their relativistic assumptions are about when a life is worth continuing?
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Under the new definition, an embryo isn’t considered an embryo if it is to be used as research fodder rather than gestated.
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In reality, after the Schiavo case encouraged acceptance, majorities supported such deaths and people with severe brain injuries became a disposable caste.
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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.
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Predictably, assisted suicides are provided under ever-lessening oversight, to ever-expanding cadres of the eligible, leading eventually to death on demand.
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Usefully, however, the Oregon bill also requires hospices to say whether they participate in assisted suicide, contrary to hospice founders’ intentions.
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