Posted by Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC | Jun 17, 2014
Fresh off of Belgium’s legalizing euthanasia for children, child “advocates” in Scotland seeks to enable dying kids to commit assisted suicide. From the London Times story (subscription pay wall): In a submission to MSPs, the...
Read MorePosted by Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC | Jun 17, 2014
This is pretty bad when it is considered a landmark victory! A court in the UK has ruled that competent patients have the right to be “told” when they are going to be denied CPR. From the Cambridge News story: The Court of...
Read MorePosted by Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC | Jun 16, 2014
None are so blind as those who refuse to see. A bioethicist named Tony Hope supports Belgium’s new child euthanasia law as if we have no history of how loosely doctor-administered death has actually been applied in that morally...
Read MorePosted by Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC | Jun 16, 2014
Melinda Gates, who with her husband gives millions to pay for women’s health care, says that the Gates Foundation will not fund abortion internationally because it isn’t “health care.” From the World story: Abortion should not...
Read MorePosted by Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC | Jun 13, 2014
Pick your cliche: Give them an inch and they will take a mile; in for a penny in for a pound, etc. In bioethics, there is never a permanent boundary beyond which the utilitarian impulse will not take them. Now, advocacy is...
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