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euthanasia
>Agreement: no euthanasia for children
>Art Caplan, the pseudoeditor at blog.bioethics.net, head of the Center for Bioethics at Pennsylvania University, and a columnist for MSNBC, has posted a note at the bioethics.net blog that calls for an end of the suggestion that sick babies should be killed by their doctors. Good going, Art!
Frankenbunnies, non-brain dead organ donation, cloning, and PVS guinea pigs
Isn’t it amazing how many of the most controversial news and public policy issues revolve around bioethics and medicine? I’ve noted before that all of the controversies (like those mentioned above, from the days surrounding the weekend of October 8-9, 2006) are actually only one: which humans will receive society’s protection of the inalienable right … Continue reading
Life, death, lawyers and ethics
LifeSite and Wesley Smith’s “SecondHand Smoke” are covering the very public grief of a family facing the death of their father due to asbestos-related lung cancer. There are accusations of euthanasia and “precipitating” death. In fact, the story does not support any of these. From the Wall Street Journal Opinion by Pamela Winnick: A medical … Continue reading
Politics and Bioethics Conference Wrap-up
In sessions titled “The States and Bioethics: Stem Cells” and “The Endarkenment: Bioethics in a Time of NeoConservatism,” I spent the last few days surrounded by self-proclaimed “liberals,” “progressives,” “leftists,” and “women.” (I know, I’m a woman, but evidently not their kind of woman.) Seriously: it seemed very important to most of the speakers to … Continue reading
>What kind of world do we want to live in?
>A most appropriate question on this day, when the Supreme Court ruled that Oregon’s laws allowing physicians to write prescriptions intended to cause the death of patients. This time, the question is asked by Kathryn Hinsch,the founder of the Womens Bioethics Project, in her “guest column” in the Seattle Post Intelligencer. The subject of the … Continue reading
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