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RFK Jr. Calls Assisted Suicide Laws ‘Abhorrent’

Assisted suicide is not discussed much at the federal level. But at a recent Senate committee hearing, Senator James Lankford (R., Okla.) asked HHS...

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Activists Want Fewer Animal — but More Human — Deaths by Euthanasia

After a bear was euthanized in California because she paw-swiped a human who owned a house under which the bruin and her cubs were living, there was a...

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Bioethicists Argue That an Unborn Baby Is Merely a ‘Gestator’s’ Body Part

Anyone paying attention knows that the medical establishment does not believe in any restriction on abortion, and moreover, that it should be provided...

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Autistic Teenager Euthanized in the Netherlands

Once killing becomes an acceptable answer to human suffering, the kinds of “suffering” that justifies killing continually expands. In the...

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At Last! A Fair Shake for Terri Schiavo’s Brother in the New York Times

My friend Bobby Schindler, the late Terri Schiavo’s brother, is one of the most kind, decent, and humble people I know. And yet, because he dared to...

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Allow Euthanasia for the Mentally Ill or They Will Commit Suicide

A Canadian activist has argued that the mentally ill must have access to euthanasia to prevent their committing suicide. From the National Post story:...

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Study: Adolescents Who Received Gender Reassignment Have Worse Mental Health

A new medical study out of Finland has found that gender-dysphoric adolescents and young adults who were subjected to gender reassignment...

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A River ‘Co-Authors’ Science Papers

The science establishment is continuing its drift into mysticism regarding environmental issues. Our latest example comes from Nature — the most...

02.04.2026 9

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Human Uterus Kept Functioning Outside the Body for Experiments

Brave new world alert! Scientists used a machine deployed in organ transplant medicine to keep a surgically removed human uterus alive for one day,...

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Force Pregnant Girls to Have Abortions, Says Ethics Article

The push for unlimited abortion access is now advancing beyond the issue of "choice." A newly published article in Ethics, the University of...

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Wisconsin Governor Vetoes Anti–’Nature Rights’ Legislation

A few months ago, I posted about a Republican-sponsored bill in Wisconsin that would preempt local communities from enacting “nature rights”...

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Article in The Lancet Decries Bioethics Conference for Not Condemning Genocide

An article in The Lancet decies the recent 17th World Conference on Bioethics, Medical Ethics, and Health Law for failing to condemn “genocide.”...

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University Pushes ‘Tree Rights’

The University of Sussex has published a "toolkit" to enable political and legal action to grant "rights" to trees. This is...

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Planned Botox! Planned Parenthood Entering Cosmetic Beauty Industry

Planned Parenthood is having a rougher time than it once did. Fifty or so clinics have closed due to financial difficulties associated with defunding...

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Medical Journal Articles Decry Immigration Enforcement

The usual suspect medical and science journals have featured far fewer columns promoting progressive politics of late. Alas, it couldn't last...

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Euthanasia of the Mentally Ill Increasing in the Netherlands

As the West lunges toward propagating a right to be made dead, the deleterious societal impacts of being legally “MAIDed” (killed by “medical...

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Ben Sasse and Rush Limbaugh: Life with Dignity

As I am sure readers know that Ben Sasse is dying from pancreatic cancer. But that doesn’t mean he is through. The former senator has refused to...

05.03.2026 10

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Supreme Court Prevents California Schools from Hiding Kids’ Gender Confusion from Parents

California reprehensibly enacted a law that prohibits school administrators and teachers from informing parents about their child’s gender...

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Internationalists Want WHO to Have Power Beyond Mere Guidance

I read John R. Puri’s post urging the U.S. to rejoin the World Health Organization because, 1) it is merely an advisory body and 2), it collects...

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U.K. Hospital Unilaterally Cuts Off Life Support of Disabled Patient over Family Objections

Readers may recall the Charlie Gard and Alfie Evans cases in the U.K., in which National Health Service hospitals took the parents of terminally ill...

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Jesse Jackson Opposed Terri Schiavo’s Intentional Death by Dehydration

I saw Dan’s comment on the repose of Jesse Jackson. I think he left a mixed legacy (don’t we all?), but I will always be grateful to him for...

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“Transgender Bill of Rights” Pushed in Congress

The ideological fever that pushed the transgender agenda to the forefront of Western cultural and political life has not broken. True, a jury awarded...

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Mentally Ill Woman Accessed Assisted Suicide in Oregon

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Bioethicist: Government Whole Milk Push Is Racist

07.02.2026 10

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Did Gavin Newsom Witness His Mother’s Murder?

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Woman Euthanized and Her Face Transplanted in Spain

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Animal Research Points to Potential Pancreatic Cancer Cure

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‘Detransitioner’ Wins $2 Million Medical-Malpractice Lawsuit

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French Senate Rejects Assisted Suicide

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Proposed Oregon Initiative Would Outlaw Animal Agriculture and Hunting

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NIH Bans Funding of Fetal Tissue Research

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Canadian Bioethicist: Euthanasia Should Not Be Considered ‘Special’

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Australian ALS Patient Denied Disability Support, Chooses Euthanasia

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Animal Welfare vs. Animal Rights

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Bees Granted Rights in Peru

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Will Assisted Suicide Coupled with Organ Harvesting Come to the U.S.?

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My Criticism of Lawrence Masek’s Bioethics Article Stands

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Peter Singer Decries AI “Speciesism”

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Bioethicist: Let Surgeons Kill Patients During Organ Harvesting

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How Far Will Experimenting on the Unborn Go?

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RFK Jr. Should Not Eliminate Research on Primates

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NY Governor Hochul to Sign Assisted-Suicide Legalization Bill

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Assisted Suicide Legalized in Illinois

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Robots Should Not Have ‘Rights’

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Purchasers of Black-Market Human Organs Often Complicit in Murder

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Medicine at Michigan Shamefully Honors Jack Kevorkian

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Finally, a Suicide Prevention Organization Opposes Assisted Suicide

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Canada’s Radical Secularism Becomes Increasingly Authoritarian

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Massachusetts Bill to Establish Stacked-Deck Transgender Commission

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Now, It’s Wild Animals’ Rights

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