One way might be to permit animal using companies to hide the names of shareholders. This is seen as potentially necessary because of tertiary targeting and threats, assaults, vandalism, and lawlessness aimed at people merely for being part owners of companies that use animals and companies that do . . . . Continue Reading »
The Joffe Bill to legalize assisted suicide in the UK is dead, at least for now. Many people in the UK worked long and hard for this day—which not too many months ago seemed as if it might not come. In no small measure, the victory comes because disability rights activists there have, as here, . . . . Continue Reading »
The third version of Forced Exit: Euthanasia, Assisted Suicide, and the New Duty To Die is now out and available. In addition to changing the subtitle, I have 11 pages on the Terri Schiavo case, discuss the pro euthanasia movie Million Dollar Baby, and update the field through last Spring. (The . . . . Continue Reading »
Great news from the UK: The House of Lords has decided by a 48 vote margin to delay considering the Joffe assisted suicide legalization bill for at least 6 months. In essence, this kills the bill, at least for now. Now, if we can stop the California legalization bill (AB 651), it will be a clean . . . . Continue Reading »
The four, who have been convicted of terrorizing the owners of a guinea pig raising farm and stealing the body of a beloved family relative to coerce the farm to shut down, are getting 12 years. Good. That’s the least they deserve for putting the farm family and their neighbors through years . . . . Continue Reading »
Now hospices are beginning to weigh in. Good for them. We need this kind of spirited advocacy against medicalized killing in this country from hospice . . . . Continue Reading »
The UK is going to permit embryos to be screened for a genetic propensity to cancer in adulthood. This is to be highly condemned as discriminatory and an attack on universal human equality. First it was the disabled who bore the brunt of such Brave New Worldism. Now, those who might not live a full . . . . Continue Reading »
A private benefactor has donated $16 million to UCSF to conduct embryonic stem cell research free of the ethical restrictions attached to federal funding. Some will say that this is in defiance of President Bush. In fact, the opposite is true. At the time Bush announced his policy, the controversy . . . . Continue Reading »
One of the reasons that many pro-choice feminists oppose all human cloning is the potential for women to be exploited for their eggs. This seems to already be transpiring: “an international market in human eggs exists which treats women like battery hens” is being highlighted by the . . . . Continue Reading »
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