I have a letter in today’s NYT about “Ashely’s Case.” Here it is:“A Disabled Girl’s RightsPeter Singer (‘A Convenient Truth,’ Op-Ed, Jan. 26) supports subjecting ‘Ashley,’ a profoundly intellectually disabled girl, to surgical and hormonal . . . . Continue Reading »
The Swiss assisted suicide facilitating organization Dignitas, has issued a euphoric notice to the death on demand crowd with news that a Swiss court has apparently accepted that the group can help kill the mentally ill as a matter of human rights. I have seen the below quoted memo from two separate . . . . Continue Reading »
Comes now the International Society for Stem Cell Research with its “Guidelines for the Conduct of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research.” Par for the course, it is almost anything goes that can be done today—including creating new embryos through IVF fertilization for use in ESCR, . . . . Continue Reading »
I keep saying it and saying it: Most biotechnology is ethical and exciting. And here is a great example: A former U.S. Marine whose arm was amputated, had implants placed in her brain that help her manipulate a prosthetic arm. But there’s more: “Now doctors have re-routed the ends of arm . . . . Continue Reading »
Increasingly, it looks as if China is harvesting organs from unwilling Falun Gong and others for sale on the open market. Canadian human rights activists David Kilgour and David Matas have issued a second report, this time including interviews with organ recipients. I haven’t read the new one . . . . Continue Reading »
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