A Virgnia plea deal is coercing a man into a vasectomy. From the CBS story: A Virginia man who has fathered children with several women has agreed to get a vasectomy to reduce his prison term by up to five years in a child...
Read MoreAborted and miscarried fetuses have been used to heat hospitals in the UK. From the Telegraph story: The bodies of thousands of aborted and miscarried babies were incinerated as clinical waste, with some even used to heat...
Read MoreThe New England Journal of Medicine–ever more radically utilitarian, in my view–has an article by prominent bioethicists urging that some less dangerous (comparative effectiveness research) medical experimentation be conducted...
Read MoreThe bioethics movement grows ever more radical. In the reproductive field, many activists promote a near-absolute right to have a baby, the kind of baby we want, via any means we desire. The UK’s John Harris is a major voice in...
Read MoreThere is growing pressure among the utilitarian bioethics crowd to permit the poor to sell their kidneys–and there is already a thriving biological colonialism in kidney selling that prays on the world’s most destitute....
Read MoreMedical and professional organizations too often remain silent in the face of clamoring suicide promotion. I have written, for example, of the shameful crickets-chirping abdication of responsibility by suicide prevention...
Read MorePeter Singer, the crass infanticide and “speciesism” promoter is an atheist. Bully for him, and who cares? But his antipathy toward faith may explain his hostility to, and utter confusion about, religious liberty....
Read MoreBy Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC This is funny. How often do we hear about studies claiming to demonstrate that liberals are smarter than conservatives, or conservatives live in a world dominated by fear:...
Read MoreBy Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC There has been a lot of justifiable worry expressed about moral decay in the wake of the UK riots. Apparently, the issue has also been on the minds of two among...
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