December 2009

Happy New Year

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No Constitutional Right to Assisted Suicide in Montana–but Not Against Current Law

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC< /> The Supreme Court of Montana vacated a trial judge’s ruling that the Constitution of Montana prohibited assisted suicide for the terminally ill–but construed the state’s living will law as permitting doctors to prescribe lethal overdoses if the patient self administers. This is odd because [...]

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What People Are Saying About CBC

Dear friends, Thank you, our supporters, who have given to the work of the CBC. Your gift tells us that you not only have confidence in the work we do, but you also see our work as important and much needed. To date, your generous gifts have helped CBC raise much needed funds for the [...]

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Robots Will Never be People and Should Never Have Rights

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Transhumanists and other futurists insist that the future will bring us robots who have become “conscious” beings, and that when they do, “sentient” machines should receive what we now call human rights. This is all fanciful, of course. Robots of the kind envisioned would only [...]

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What People Are Saying About CBC

Dear friends, Thank you, our supporters, who have given to the work of the CBC. Your gift tells us that you not only have confidence in the work we do, but you also see our work as important and much needed. To date, your generous gifts have helped CBC raise much needed funds for the [...]

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Give Your Online End-of-Year Gift Now

Dear friends, We know the work we do at the CBC is important and necessary and effective. Just look at what we’ve accomplished this past year! We have confidence in you, our readers and supporters, that you would agree. And we trust in your continued support of our mission and vision, to advance ethical biotechnology [...]

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Jennifer Lahl Needs Your Help Today

Dear friends, We know the work we do at the CBC is important and necessary and effective. Just look at what we’ve accomplished this past year! We have confidence in you, our readers and supporters, that you would agree. And we trust in your continued support of our mission and vision, to advance ethical biotechnology [...]

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Extended Discussion of Palliative Sedation in the New York Times

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Palliative sedation, that is putting an imminently dying patient into an artificial coma and allowing the disease to take its course, is a legitimate palliative technique–when the symptoms warrant it. Thus, in the rare case where pain can’t be controlled or a patient panics due [...]

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Physician-assisted suicide: A perspective from advocates for people with disability

Physician-assisted suicide: A perspective from advocates for people with disability “Writing in the Editorial, Professor Suzanne McDermott states, “Almost all people at the end of life can be included in the definition of ‘disability.’ Thus, the practice of assisted suicide results in death for people with disabilities. People with disabilities have been recognized as a [...]

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Flash Forward: Obamacare Cometh and Other Bioethical Tales for 2010

“Flash Forward” is a new and interesting television drama presented on the ABC Television Network. The premise is brilliant – due to reasons still unknown, everyone in the world (except the bad guys) blackout for two minutes seventeen seconds. Planes crash, people collapse on the streets, swimmers drown, it is an utter catastrophe that results [...]

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