Neither shortage of oxygen nor the presence of relatives account for the sudden release from confusion or dementia.
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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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Serious research on terminal lucidity will immensely damage the sort of materialism that Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker champions.
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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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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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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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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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Facilitating drug abuse — which is what “harm reduction” does — causes terrible harm, often to the people it purports to help.
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But today, the serious problem is not modernism and scientism, which are fading. It is post-modernism, which rejects reason and evidence.
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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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Dr. Egnor agreed, observing that the United States seems to be losing its ability to hold respectful disagreement. Post responded by quoting Abraham Lincoln’s call for unity
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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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Embryology tells us that the unborn child is a human organism — distinct from but dependent upon his or her mother.
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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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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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The more useful an AI data collection system becomes, the more tempting a target it will be for hackers. Some risks are actually the price of success.
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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.
Read More ›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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