Euthanasia Legalization Bill in New South Wales

Euthanasia activists keep trying to stretch the envelope. In New South Wales, Australia, a bill has been introduced that would not only permit active euthanasia but would be allow a very broad array of ill and disabled patients to be killed upon request. From, The Rights of the Terminally Ill Bill 2013 (PDF): In this [...]

Read the full article →

Vermont’s Coming “No Rules” Assisted Suicide

Thumbnail image for Vermont’s Coming “No Rules” Assisted Suicide

Vermont seems poised to enact assisted suicide into state law. For the first three years, it will be a law with even fewer “protective guidelines” than the ephemeral Oregon rules. Then, the guidelines sunset and doctors would seem to be able do pretty much as they please. From the Burlington Free Press story: The alternative [...]

Read the full article →

An Open Letter RE: Louisiana SB 162 (Provides for Surrogacy Contracts)

May 8, 2013 Members of the Louisiana House of Representatives: We are writing to urge your rejection of SB 162, a bill that would allow commercial surrogacy or contract pregnancy in Louisiana. The inevitable consequence of this legislation is that it turns women into exploitable commodities through financial inducement that targets young healthy women. SB [...]

Read the full article →

The Fallacy of Intelligence and Genetic Determinism

Thumbnail image for The Fallacy of Intelligence and Genetic Determinism

By Kathleen Sloan, Consultant to the CBC Once again, the mainstream media has jumped on the bandwagon of the latest attempt to link intelligence with genetics, hailing the “wunderkind” behind it. The Wall Street Journal of February 16, 2013, grabbed attention with the headline “A Genetic Code for Genius?” Any serious geneticist would easily dismiss [...]

Read the full article →

Pro Suicide Advocacy Increasing Rates?

Thumbnail image for Pro Suicide Advocacy Increasing Rates?

Suicide is in the air. Our culture — particularly exemplified by the media — is becoming increasingly pro suicide. Perhaps better stated, many are now pro some suicides. Indeed, if a suicidal person is sick, disabled, even mentally ill, many believe it is perfectly fine for a doctor to facilitate death through intentional overdose, and [...]

Read the full article →

Ethical Cells Build Working Kidney

This story demonstrates both the tremendous potential of ethical biotechnology and the continuing need for using animals in scientific research. A rat kidney has been built from “adult” cells and successfully transplanted into an animal. From The Guardian story: Scientists have grown a kidney in a laboratory and shown that it works when implanted into [...]

Read the full article →

Poor NHS Care Drives Assisted Suicide Support

Thumbnail image for Poor NHS Care Drives Assisted Suicide Support

Here is another cogent warning about the dangers of centralized health care. The people of the UK have apparently lost so much trust in the National Health Service (NHS), that it is driving support for legalizing assisted suicide. From the Telegraph story: Fears about standards care for terminally ill people in the NHS are fueling [...]

Read the full article →

Another Day, Another Adult Stem Cell Success

This is still experimental, but the little girl who had a new windpipe built from her bone marrow cells won’t care. From the AP story: A 2-year-old girl born without a windpipe now has a new one grown from her own stem cells, the youngest patient in the world to benefit from the experimental treatment. [...]

Read the full article →

Transhumanism: Amputating a Healthy Limb

Thumbnail image for Transhumanism: Amputating a Healthy Limb

I first heard of Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID) at a transhumanist convention. BIID, also known as “amputee wannabe,” is a terrible mental illness in which sufferers obsesses and truly anguish about becoming an amputee — which they perceive as their true identities. At the conference, the transhumanist speaker argued that sufferers should be able [...]

Read the full article →

Euthanasia Changes Culture

Thumbnail image for Euthanasia Changes Culture

I have a long article out in the current (May 2013) First Things magazine detailing the never-ending expansion of euthanasia in Europe, to the point that there are few medicalized killings that are not allowed. I get into Belgian organ harvesting after euthansia, the growth of psychiatric euthanasia in the Netherlands, and suicide tourism in [...]

Read the full article →

← Previous Entries

Next Entries →