>Monday we learned about the Supreme Court’s decision against the National Organization of Women’s use of RICO against Operation Rescue and Joseph Scheidler. Essentially the Court said that NOW and other pro-abortionists should use the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrance laws and forget “RICO.” I’ve never been convinced that Operation Rescue is a violent … Continue reading
From the Journal of Medical Ethics, which declares itself the “Highest ranked journal globally in Medical Ethics,” For many years now, social and political struggles over the issue of abortion have given practical urgency to philosophical debate about whether human zygotes, embryos and fetuses have moral rights, such as a right not to be destroyed … Continue reading
>From the Journal of Medical Ethics, which declares itself the “Highest ranked journal globally in Medical Ethics,” For many years now, social and political struggles over the issue of abortion have given practical urgency to philosophical debate about whether human zygotes, embryos and fetuses have moral rights, such as a right not to be destroyed … Continue reading
More on healthcare funding and rationing, today. It’s important to remember that the Canadian government health system began rationing by limiting services years ago. The doctor in this article in the NYT is correct that it is easier to get desired and even necessary care for dogs than it is for humans. More than ten … Continue reading
>More on healthcare funding and rationing, today. It’s important to remember that the Canadian government health system began rationing by limiting services years ago. The doctor in this article in the NYT is correct that it is easier to get desired and even necessary care for dogs than it is for humans. More than ten … Continue reading
A post by Art Caplan who is a pseudoeditor but not an editor at blog.bioethics.net alerted me to Alternet, a website that is rich with blogger material. We could begin by contrasting the article complaining of the environmental toxin of the production of chicken for food with the one in support of abortion and abortionists. … Continue reading
>A post by Art Caplan who is a pseudoeditor but not an editor at blog.bioethics.net alerted me to Alternet, a website that is rich with blogger material. We could begin by contrasting the article complaining of the environmental toxin of the production of chicken for food with the one in support of abortion and abortionists. … Continue reading
The Nation’s Max Blumenthal (also available free online here)has decided that Princeton’s Robert P. George (graduate of Harvard, Oxford and recipient of many other honors and degrees) is tainting the entire institution, by causing a “lean to the right.” I agree with a statement Professor George has made: he’s a balance for Princeton’s other notorious … Continue reading
>The Nation’s Max Blumenthal (also available free online here)has decided that Princeton’s Robert P. George (graduate of Harvard, Oxford and recipient of many other honors and degrees) is tainting the entire institution, by causing a “lean to the right.” I agree with a statement Professor George has made: he’s a balance for Princeton’s other notorious … Continue reading
A group of very well respected scientists, philosophers and ethicists (all involved in bioethics and stem cell research) have joined together to discuss and draft what they call a “consensus” on stem cell research, both destructive embryonic stem cell research and non-destructive, ethical non-embryonic stem cell research. The document can be accessed at the Berman … Continue reading