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Wesley J. SmithNational Review |
Many Western countries and jurisdictions are legalizing euthanasia and assisted suicide. That opens up a problem for the death pushers. Since states...
Nature — the most prestigious science journal in the world — has editorialized in favor of requiring scientists to register with governments as a...
I once respected Anthony Fauci. But, during the Covid pandemic, I believe his power and the astonishing international celebrity generated by a fawning...
The Ethicist column in the New York Times -- a high-brow Dear Abby -- has blessed adultery if one's spouse is permanently incapacitated. The...
The other day, in response to the British Medical Association requiring doctors to participate in VSED (voluntary stop eating and drinking) suicides,...
The subtitle of the revised and updated version of my book criticizing utilitarian bioethics, Culture of Death, is, "The Age of 'Do...
The New England Journal of Medicine still publishes objective scientific articles. But in the last decade-plus, it is just as notable for its hard...
The nature rights movement continues to advance into respectability with woefully insufficient resistance. Too many people don't take the threat...
An awful story has broken into the headlines illustrating the moral peril of commercial surrogacy. From the Texas Tribune story: [McKenna] West, a...
The Washington Post has a heartwarming story about a Nashville cop who dissuaded a suicidal man from jumping off a bridge: “It was emotional. This...
In recent years, editors of medical, science, and bioethics journals have proclaimed almost every major societal problem to be a “health...
Media outlets are reporting that Stanford scientists used AI to create an artificial virus. From the Wall Street Journal story:...
Say what you will about Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., but he definitely cares about ensuring that organ transplant...
Anthony Conwright argues in the New York Times that the Civil War should not be called by that name because it never was so called during its...
And what, exactly, is “human dignity?” Do we all possess it as a matter of objective truth, simply and merely because we are human, or must we...
Over the past decade or so, the Nonhuman Rights Project has sought to obtain legal personhood for chimpanzees and elephants. The method to their...
The bioethicist Quill R Kukla, a philosophy professor at (the Jesuit) Georgetown University, also serves as the editor in chief of one of the most...
New York just legalized assisted suicide. Adding insult to injury, the law requires morally or religiously objecting doctors to be complicit in...
A pro-illegal immigrant advocacy article in the New England Journal of Medicine urges doctors to protect undocumented patients by impeding law...
The West continues its love affair with the culture of death as the French National Assembly just voted to legalize euthanasia and assisted suicide,...
Assisted suicide legalization is bad medicine and even worse public policy. It abandons the sick, destroys human equality by creating a killable caste...
The legalization of assisted suicide/euthanasia corrupts medical ethics and not just because killing patients or assisting their suicides is a direct...
One would have thought that bioethicists and technocrats would learn from the COVID debacle that coerced public health policies can easily become...
I recently wrote critically about a Quebec town that granted “rights to trees.” These include the rights “to life, to natural growth, to...
The Lancet's editors have established a "commission" to recommend means by which the powers that be can stifle open debate — er, I...
The Anglican Church of Canada has authorized clergy to bless people being euthanized just before, during, and after being lethally jabbed (when...
The media is (properly) reporting that a Dutch doctor euthanized — i.e. killed — a sick twelve-year-old child (illness not reported). It is a...
In Quebec, a small town has granted “rights” to trees. From the CBC story: A small town west of Montreal has decided to officially recognize trees...
The Lancet just published an editorial that essentially supports unlimited migration — although it doesn’t use that term — and makes no...
Here we go again. Several years ago, the radical Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) sued in New York to have chimps declared "persons." The case...
In recent years, the term "service provider" has been deployed widely as a descriptor for doctors and other medical professionals....
Kimberly Guilfoyle, our ambassador to Greece, just met with His Beatitude Theophilos III, the Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem, in Athens. Such...
Gallup just issued its annual poll on "moral acceptability." I was struck by the dramatically different results in the two questions about...
The utilitarian bioethicist Peter Singer opposes human exceptionalism. Indeed, he contends that being human is irrelevant to determining moral value....
There is an old joke What do you call the medical student who finished last in his class? Answer: "Doctor." The increasing legalization of...
The "nature rights" movement continues to advance. Now, a bill has been presented for consideration in the U.K. House of Lords by a member...
AI gets most of the attention, but biotechnology may be even more impactful on the human future. Indeed, I think it is the most powerful technology...
I am being asked for my thoughts about the Hacks series finale. I don’t want to spoil the last episode for people who haven’t seen it yet. But the...
In a newly released paper in the prestigious journal Bioethics, three prominent bioethicists argue that when someone decides to commit suicide via...
Environmentalism is growing increasingly radical and irrational, epitomized by the “nature rights” movement that seeks to declare geological...
In Lane County, Ore., an attempt to grant rights to nature — specifically, to grant “watersheds” the right to “exist, flourish, regenerate and...
Serious moves are afoot to allow ending the lives of dementia patients, either by allowing them to be killed by lethal jab euthanasia if requested in...
The attacks on one of the fundamental essences of being human — free will — continue apace. The latest example can be found in the BBC’s Science...
These days, it seems that everything is about bioethics. Case in point: A zoologist named Sam Zeveloff has criticized RFK Jr. in Stat News for...
Canada has gone hog wild for euthanasia. But the pro-death tide may — may — be beginning to turn. The province of Alberta just passed a bill that...
Uterine transplants are becoming more common to enable infertile women — and perhaps, eventually men — to give birth. How’s that project going?...
Last year, I wrote here warning about a bioethics paper that advocated restricting the amount of orally received food and water given to dementia...
David Morens was formerly a senior adviser to Anthony Fauci when he was the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases...
The other day, I wrote about Wendy Duffy, a healthy woman in deep grief because of the death of her son, who was planning to die at a Swiss death...
A grieving mother who is in good health has been accepted for termination by a Swiss suicide clinic. From the New York Post story: A physically...
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