A Belgian MD filled a syringe with heart-stopping poison, and injected the fluid into the arm of a dying child who had asked to die, causing death. And it was ...
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No, I am not taking my football and going home. Nor have I been given the boot.
Rather, NRO has invited me to opine exclusively on the ...
Once a society accepts the premise that killing is an acceptable answer to suffering, there is seemingly no upper limit to which that principle will eventually not apply.
The Canadian Supreme ...
The NIH is considering funding research that will inject human stem cells into animal embryos, thereby creating human/animal chimeras.
We have to be careful how we react to such stories and not ...
Apparently clones of the same dead sheep from which Dolly was manufactured are in good health and aging normally. From the LiveScience story:
Four cloned sheep that are genetically identical to Dolly, the ...
I have been asked what I think the US election means to bioethics. A lot and not much. Here’s how I put it in an interview in BioEdge:
BioEdge: You can’t ...
Assisted suicide isn’t the same as palliative care. The latter about easing symptoms and alleviating pain. The former about intentionally ending life.
But the culture of death brooks no dissent. Vermont authorities ...
Waiting periods for reflection are supposed to be a “safeguard” against abuse in euthanasia and assisted suicide.
That has been exposed as mere veneer as Quebec euthanasia advocates are furious that ...
“Futile care” is ad hoc health care rationing. It permits a doctor to refuse wanted life-sustaining treatment that is working, based on the values of the MD that keeping the ...
I have been so caught up in the continuing dissipation of medical ethics and the euthanasia juggernaut in Canada, I haven’t had the time to discuss ecocide in awhile.
Last year, ...