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>Andrea Clark will not be removed from ventilator

>Wesley Smith has a wonderful update on Andrea Clark. Her care has been transferred to her new doctor and the team of consultants will continue her intensive treatments in the hospital. We need to all be grateful that the answer to our prayers was, “Yes.” Not only has Andrea’s life-sustaining treatment been continued past the … Continue reading

>Do you pull the switch?

>We’ve had a real-life philosophy problem right in front of us this last two weeks, with the sad case of Andrea Clark. Now, here’s your chance to see why it’s so hard for some who call themselves “philosophers” and “ethicists.” (Or maybe why so many of them seem to have gone insane.) The BBC has … Continue reading

Do you pull the switch?

We’ve had a real-life philosophy problem right in front of us this last two weeks, with the sad case of Andrea Clark. Now, here’s your chance to see why it’s so hard for some who call themselves “philosophers” and “ethicists.” (Or maybe why so many of them seem to have gone insane.) The BBC has … Continue reading

Babies are always miracles (Cystic Fibrosis and stem cells)

Exciting news out of Australia, concering umbilical cord stem cell therapy and Cystic Fibrosis research. Unfortunately, the very informative article has a silly title, “Will baby Aiden be a miracle?” Aiden is already a miracle, of course. The story, from the Herald Sun in Melborne, Victoria, Australia, explains that both Aiden and his older sister … Continue reading

>Babies are always miracles (Cystic Fibrosis and stem cells)

>Exciting news out of Australia, concering umbilical cord stem cell therapy and Cystic Fibrosis research. Unfortunately, the very informative article has a silly title, “Will baby Aiden be a miracle?” Aiden is already a miracle, of course. The story, from the Herald Sun in Melborne, Victoria, Australia, explains that both Aiden and his older sister … Continue reading

"Texas Futile Care Act" doesn't exist

As a matter of fact, the word “futile” is nowhere in the law, which is actually, Chapter 166 of the Health and Safety Code, the Texas Advance Directive Act (TADA). I have just finished a Clinical Ethics class in my work on my Master’s in Bioethics. From a critique by the instructor (a well-known, Christian … Continue reading

>"Texas Futile Care Act" doesn’t exist

>As a matter of fact, the word “futile” is nowhere in the law, which is actually, Chapter 166 of the Health and Safety Code, the Texas Advance Directive Act (TADA). I have just finished a Clinical Ethics class in my work on my Master’s in Bioethics. From a critique by the instructor (a well-known, Christian … Continue reading

Prolife medical comment on Andrea Clark

The Houston Chronicle clears up one question about the cancelled transfer of Andrea Clark: the doctors in Illinois discovered that they could not meet the needs of Andrea. More than likely, this was as they viewed the records released to them by the hospital, after the family signed the release. Wesley Smith’s “Secondhand Smoke” has … Continue reading

>Prolife medical comment on Andrea Clark

>The Houston Chronicle clears up one question about the cancelled transfer of Andrea Clark: the doctors in Illinois discovered that they could not meet the needs of Andrea. More than likely, this was as they viewed the records released to them by the hospital, after the family signed the release. Wesley Smith’s “Secondhand Smoke” has … Continue reading

Defining "political bias" bias

Bioethics.net blog, by the editors and pseudoeditors of the American Journal of Bioethics, has another hit piece aimed at the current administration, referencing that stellar peer-reviewed medical and scientific journal, Glamour Magazine. It seems that the author of the Glamour article) (Brian Alexander, who writes sometimes politically biased sci-tech articles for Wired magazine and has … Continue reading

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