The first of what I hope will be an outpouring of state laws to prevent future Terri Schiavo cases just passed in Louisiana. This law prevents spouses living with another love interest, or who has been convicted of a violent crime, from making the medical decision to end life-sustaining treatment on . . . . Continue Reading »
As I mentioned a week or so ago, there is an obscure mental disease in which victims become obsessed with becoming amputees. As I write in this Center for Bioethics and Culture newsletter, some are now calling for the right of doctors to fulfill the wishes of these “amputee wannabes” by . . . . Continue Reading »
The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is not an animal welfare organization. While it often masks its true intent behind animal welfare actions, it’s ultimate goal is the elimination of all human use of animals—no matter how humane. This story of PETA employees killing and . . . . Continue Reading »
This story about the hearing on a bill to loosen President Bush’s embryonic stem cell funding policy demonstrates the hypocrisy and the obfuscation that marks this debate on the pro-ESCR/cloning side. First, the “ethicist” Ronald M. Green supports creating embryos for destruction. . . . . Continue Reading »
The Illinois Governor has done what the legislature could not pass: He has issued an executive order creating the Illinois Regenerative Medical Institute that will use state money to fund, among other endeavors, research into human cloning. What the legislature could not do, the governor does with . . . . Continue Reading »
The attempt to legalize assisted suicide in California is dead for this year. After much hype and media attention, proselytizing visits from the nation’s most visible leaders in the pro euthanasia movement, the bill went nowhere. For this year, it is dead. Next year is an election year and . . . . Continue Reading »
As I wrote previously, barring any new and unforeseen events, I am not going to comment further in this Blog on the Terri Schiavo case. But my good pal Nat Hentoff continues the cause, knocking it out of the old ballpark in this important piece. It’s definitely worth a read.P.S. Nat reports . . . . Continue Reading »
First, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) compared eating meat to the worst crimes of the Holocaust. Then, PETA alpha wolf Ingrid Newkirk, issued her non apology “apology.” Now, PETA has a new propaganda campaign explicitly creating a moral equivalence between the . . . . Continue Reading »
Today’s New York Times Magazine carries an opinion article that strives to further normalize infanticide as an acceptable medical practice. (Registration may be required to access article.) The issue, apparently, isn’t whether life is sacrosanct but whether it is our duty to eliminate . . . . Continue Reading »
This article in the Journal of Clinical Investigation warns that medical treatments from embryonic stem cell research (ESCR) and therapeutic cloning may be very far away, if they ever come at all. ESCR and cloning have so many hurdles to overcome, ranging from tumor formation in animal studies, to . . . . Continue Reading »
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