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Texas “Futile care debate: Prolonging life or suffering?”
The Houston Chronicle has an unusually good and balanced article on one case in the on-going debate in Texas on the end of life care, originally published May 6th. The article uses the example of 91 year-old Mrs.Edith Pereira, and the way that her daughter, Zee Klein, made sure that she got the care that … Continue reading
(Un)Ethical Science Journals
I guess the first question should be, “Where is the scientific and ethical justification for demanding public funding of science without public restraints?” The next is, “When there is public disagreement, what is the ethical way to conduct the discussion about the disagreement?” I’m sure that the answer to the second is not “hit and … Continue reading
Religion and zealotry of one sort or another
The National Review has published an editorial by Colleen Carroll Campbell on the resignation of St. Louis’ Archbishop Raymond Burke from his position on the board of that city’s Children’s Hospital foundation. The Archbishop objected to the invitation to the outspoken (and vocal) proponent for abortion and embryonic stem cell research, Cheryl Crow. Ms. Campbell … Continue reading
>And the world didn’t end (Supreme Court Partial Birth Ruling)
>I’m minding my own business, visiting a few hundred blogs in an effort to complete the database on Bioethics Internet resources for my Bioethics capstone project, and one of the headlines said that the Supreme Court had up held the Federal ban on Partial Birth Abortions. There was no earthquake, no sonic boom, and I … Continue reading
>More Complaints About Texas Legislator
>A blogger over at the Daily Kos is complaining about the Texas State Affairs meeting on HB 225. The complaint is that people with disabilities had to wait until the early morning to testify. There’s more comments at the South Texas Chisme: Sneaky Republicans ban stem cell research funding” (See the problem with the headline? … Continue reading
>"Sneaky" Texas Legislator
>Perhaps this article, written by an Associated Press writer, should be receive the Yellow Brick Award. (Should I put “copyrighted” here? No, there’s others, although most – like the award for finishing the obstacle course at Quantico – are awards for achieving the impossible, not for misdirection.) Someone is practicing distraction and projection by calling … Continue reading
>Yellow Brick Award
>The Yellow Brick Award will note those in the Biotech and Bioethics research and policy communities who attempt to lead us down a winding, deceptive path, using explosions, smoke and mirrors, pulleys and levers, novel definitions, distraction, projection and destruction. There are usually at least a few wicked witches, projectiles (not necessarily houses), lots of … Continue reading
>About those ultrasounds before abortion
>Over the last few days, Kelly at Blog.Bioethics.net has been blogging about House Bill 3355, passed in the South Carolina, which will require the abortion doctor to review the ultrasound with the woman or girl at least one hour before the abortion. The woman has to sign a statement that she’s received the informed consent … Continue reading
>Money for Babies?
>There is a gut reaction, what Dr. Leon Kass has called a “yuck” factor, to the idea that a mother would trade her child for money, however the idea is framed. ABC news picked up another news item, this time from my hometown. Our local Chamber of Commerce owns the copyright to the title of … Continue reading
Explaining
This is a re-write of a post I made as part of the conversation about Emilio Gonzales’s treatment at Wesley Smith’s Second Hand Smoke. I’m a family doctor because I have always seen the patient as part of the family and (ideally and sometimes not so ideally) the family as integral to the patient’s condition … Continue reading
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