Bioethicist Claims U.S. Assisted Suicide Laws Discriminate Against the Dying

I just came across a bioethicist’s article from several months ago that actually promotes the equal moral worth of dying people. And published, no less, in the Journal of Medical Ethics, which usually pushes radical ideas of bioethical madness such as equating pregnancy with the measles.

But not this time. Dr. Philip Reed, a philosophy professor at the Jesuit Canisius College, argues against what he calls “terminalism,” that is, “treating the terminally ill worse than they would expect to be treated if they were not dying.” From “Discrimination Against the Dying:”

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I just came across a bioethicist’s article from several months ago that actually promotes the equal moral worth of dying people. And published, no less, in the Journal of Medical Ethics, which usually pushes radical ideas of bioethical madness such as equating pregnancy with the measles.

But not this time. Dr. Philip Reed, a philosophy professor at the Jesuit Canisius College, argues against what he calls “terminalism,” that is, “treating the terminally ill worse than they would expect to be treated if they were not dying.” From “Discrimination Against the Dying:”