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New Zealand Mountain Named a ‘Person’ with ‘Rights’ and ‘Responsibilities’

New Zealand Mountain Named a ‘Person’ with ‘Rights’ and ‘Responsibilities’
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Listen to Trump’s Former CDC Director on HIV, the Response to Covid, Fauci, RFK Jr., and More

28.01.2025 10

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Colorado Supremes Unanimously Nix Elephant Personhood

Colorado Supremes Unanimously Nix Elephant Personhood
24.01.2025 60

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New England Journal of Medicine Article: Free Sex-Change Surgeries for Prisoners!

New England Journal of Medicine Article: Free Sex-Change Surgeries for Prisoners!
20.01.2025 20

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New England Journal of Medicine Publishes Screed Defending ‘Gender-Affirming Care’

New England Journal of Medicine Publishes Screed Defending ‘Gender-Affirming Care’
17.01.2025 10

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Progressive Columnist Almost Embraces Sanctity of Human Life

Progressive Columnist Almost Embraces Sanctity of Human Life
13.01.2025 10

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Medical Journal Articles Urge Same Health Care Coverage for Illegal Aliens as Citizens

The latest New England Journal of Medicine contains two advocacy articles that essentially argue that the country should provide health care for...

06.01.2025 20

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Assisted-Suicide Death Ceremonies Becoming Normalized

Back in 1991 or so, I was invited by an elderly and ill suicidal friend — along with about 20 of her other pals — to gather in her apartment for a...

02.01.2025 3

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High U.N. Official Supports ‘Nature Rights’ and Environmental Lawfare

The assistant secretary general of the U.N., Kanni Wignaraja, wants “nature” to go to court so that tribunals can set environmental policy for the...

31.12.2024 20

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Only Feminism Can Prevent Global Warming

About a month ago, some bioethicists claimed that bioethics should prevent climate change. My eyes had finally stopped rolling when lo and behold,...

29.12.2024 20

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Basta! Italy’s National Bioethics Committee Urges Blocking Puberty Blockers

The tide is really turning against the gender ideologues who advocate experimenting on the bodies of children as a supposedly “medically necessary”...

22.12.2024 6

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Pig-to-Human Kidney Transplant Offers Hope — and an Ethical Solution

With so many people on the organ transplant waiting list, the ethics of organ donation have begun to buckle. These proposals are not only...

18.12.2024 8

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NYT Column: Factory Farms Are Good for People and the Planet

We hear a lot from environmentalists, animal rights activists, and just plain caring people about the supposed evils of industrial farming. Neo-...

17.12.2024 3

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Euthanasia Turning Suicidal People into ‘Kill and Harvest’ Natural Resource

In the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, and Canada, people who want euthanasia can become organ donors. (A recent report in Spain showed that 13...

14.12.2024 10

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Voters Grant Rights to a River in Everett, Wash.

More than 30 U.S. cities have adopted nature rights ordinances, mostly to prevent fracking. And now in the recent election, 57 percent of voters in...

11.12.2024 4

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Yale Historian writes in The Lancet That ‘Slavery Is at the Bottom of Everything’

The medical establishment continues on its march to irrelevance. In the current edition of The Lancet, a Yale history professor named Timothy...

09.12.2024 4

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Only Bioethicists Can Prevent Global Warming

05.12.2024 20

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Now, It’s ‘Whale Rights’

03.12.2024 4

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The Media Still Can’t Get Facts about Terri Schiavo Right

24.11.2024 2

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New Zealand Study: ‘Dearth’ of Evidence Supporting Use of Puberty Blockers

22.11.2024 9

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Doctor to the Homeless’s Policy Prescription Would Continue the Catastrophe

19.11.2024 20

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Euthanasia Homicide Averted at Last Second

17.11.2024 6

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World Economic Forum Pushes ‘Forest Rights’

13.11.2024 20

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West Virginia Voters Enact Constitutional Amendment Banning Assisted Suicide

06.11.2024 3

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Rita Marker, the Great Anti-Assisted-Suicide Champion, Has Died at 83

02.11.2024 10

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Fighting for the Rights of . . . Antarctica?

30.10.2024 10

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Medical Journal Trots Out Trite The Handmaid’s Tale Metaphor to Oppose Natalism

28.10.2024 2

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New Yorker Editor: (Right-Wing) Political Violence Should Be Considered a ‘Public Health Threat’

20.10.2024 30

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Nature Promotes Views of Anti-Israel Demonstrator

16.10.2024 3

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Will Colorado Allow Elephants to Sue?

14.10.2024 10

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Bioethicists Push Psychedelics to Make Life ‘Interesting’

29.09.2024 4

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Scientific American Harms Science by Endorsing Harris

17.09.2024 8

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Falun Gong Member Whose Organs Were Harvested Proves China’s Guilt

12.09.2024 10

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In Speaker Choices, American Academy of Pediatrics Shows its Gender Ideological Colors

10.09.2024 3

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I Was Told the Internet Would Make Life Easier: Now, It Is ‘Personhood Credentials’

02.09.2024 1

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The ‘Gender-Industrial Complex’ Makes Billions Annually

29.08.2024 10

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Association of American Medical Colleges Journal Pushes for Residencies in Assisted Suicide

18.08.2024 10

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Blessed are the Peacemakers, for They Shall Be Called Bioethicists

10.08.2024 2

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‘Plant Philosophy’ Denigrates Human Uniqueness

06.08.2024 5

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At Least 60 People with Eating Disorders Euthanized or Assisted in Suicide since 2012

02.08.2024 10

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Spanish Government Plans to Okay Euthanasia for Mental Illness

28.07.2024 3

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No Increase in Suicides among Gender-Confused Youth since Puberty Blockers Blocked in U.K.

23.07.2024 2

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President Biden Is Not a Yam

13.07.2024 20

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