September 2011

The Joy of Parenting Children with Down Syndrome

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Prenatal genetic testing has turned into a search and destroy eugenic abortion mission that targets fetuses with Down syndrome, dwarfism, and other genetic conditions. Indeed, we know that about 90% of such nascent humans become medical waste instead of being born. Evidence showed that “genetic [...]

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Doctors Refuse To Stop Suicide by Starvation

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Doctors in San Francisco are refusing to intervene in a suicide by starvation by an suspected murderer — even though he has been declared mentally incompetent. From the “Matier and Ross” feature in the SF Chronicle: Doctors at San Francisco General Hospital are refusing to [...]

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Who are the Leaders in Bioethics?

Call For Nominations: The 9th Annual Paul Ramsey Award The Center for Bioethics and Culture Network invites you to nominate the 2012 Paul Ramsey Award winner. The Paul Ramsey Award honors those who have made an outstanding contribution to the bioethics discussion and are actively engaged in society; facing the challenges of the 21st century, [...]

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Call For Nominations: The 9th Annual Paul Ramsey Award

Reminder: Nominations Close October 31 The Center for Bioethics and Culture Network invites you to nominate the 2012 Paul Ramsey Award winner. Save the Date Paul Ramsey Award Dinner March 23, 2012 6:30 pm Lakeside Olympic Club Skyline Boulevard San Francisco, CA Reserve a Seat or Table The Paul Ramsey Award honors those who have [...]

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Father Can’t Stop Embryos From Being Implanted

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC It amazes me how an embryo is or isn’t an existing human life — depending on what the question is. In Argentina, a man fathered embryos via IVF, and then divorced. His ex wants to be implanted with the embryos, but he says that would [...]

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Futile Care Theory Metasticizes: Terminal Cancer Patients’ Lives Not Worth Extending

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC “Get out of the lifeboat you expensive terminal cancer patients! Sure, your lives could be extended months, maybe even years, — but it isn’t worth the money! You’re going to die sooner or later, so it might as well be sooner. We need the money [...]

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Biological Colonialism: Time to Get Judgmental About Organ Buyers

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC When will enough, finally, be enough. Not only are organs now being sold by desperate people in destitute countries — to the point that some governments have been forced to ban organ transplant surgeries for non citizens or receiving organs from non relatives — but [...]

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Kill Sick Wife, Don’t Go to Jail

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC It is remarkable how often judges shrug at the killing of sick and disabled people. In the UK, a man plead guilty to manslaughter of his terminally ill wife, and walked out of court a free man. From the London Evening Standard story: Stuart Mungall, [...]

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Dehydrating Brain Injured People to Death Still an Important Political Issue

Dehydrating Brain Injured People to Death Still an Important Political Issue By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC It is oft said that a society is judged by how it treats its weakest members. (Humans only. Animals are not members of the moral community. Their proper care is an important ethical issue, [...]

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Embryonic Stem Cell Studies Front Page News as Better Adult Studies Ignored

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Good grief. Here we go again. The SF Chronicle has a front page story about the fourth human subject to receive an embryonic stem cell-derived injection of cells. From the story: A Bay Area patient who recently suffered a serious spinal cord injury and is [...]

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