I have written here often that the embryonic stem cell debate is merely the opening stanza of a much broader agenda that would instrumentalize unborn human beings for use in experiments, treatments, and for body parts. Alas, using fetuses in such a crassly utilitarian way has already been done. Back . . . . Continue Reading »
I agree with the perspective of this column in the Guardian. But it is missing a crucial element. From the column “Warning: Media Reports on Suicide Can be Fatal,” byline Ben Goldacre: [O]ne important cause of suicide seems to have been missed...[I]t has been shown repeatedly that . . . . Continue Reading »
So, now that we know that many people thought to be unconscious—are actually awake and aware—some might think that would cause bioethicists to step back from the dehydration agenda. As I have long predicted, not on a bet! An article published in the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy by . . . . Continue Reading »
Thomas Aquinas reflected on the question, “Whether it is always sinful to wage war?” in Summa Theologica Part II, Question 40 . His short answer was “No.” A war would be just, he argued, if three conditions were met: First, the authority of the sovereign by whose command the . . . . Continue Reading »
I have written repeatedly in the last two weeks about how “the scientists” are moving their duplicitous anything-goes-in-biotech campaign to the next stage, now that the curtain has come down on Act I with the slaying of the hated Bush funding restrictions. In the opening of Act II, we . . . . Continue Reading »
And, once again, embryos aren’t involved. . . . . Continue Reading »
Fr. Jenkins defends his decision to honor President Obama by saying that we should “engage” those who disagree with us. And yet, strangely, Fr. Jenkins has conspicuously failed to engage in a serious way the arguments of his own critics. Strong arguments against Fr. Jenkins’s . . . . Continue Reading »
John H. Thomas is the general minister and president of the United Church of Christ. He recently completed a trip to the Holy Land and penned his reflections about Israel’s occupation of the West Bank. As is often the case, [Muslim] men under the age of forty-five were not permitted to pray . . . . Continue Reading »
A new study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine , illustrates—yet again—that assisted suicide is not about unbearable suffering that can’t be controlled—as the scaremongering promoters claim—but rather understandable and treatable fears about the future. From . . . . Continue Reading »
A new study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, illustrates—yet again—that assisted suicide in Oregon has not been about unbearable suffering that can’t be controlled—as the scaremongering of its salesmen and women would have it, but fears about the future. From . . . . Continue Reading »
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