Support First Things by turning your adblocker off or by making a  donation. Thanks!

My Sense is Joffe Bill in Trouble

I have traveled to the UK several times at the request of anti-euthanasia campaigners to help in their battle to oppose legalizing assisted suicide. The Joffe Bill may or may not get out of the House of Lords, and I could be wrong, but my sense is that the legislation is in deep trouble. There . . . . Continue Reading »

Animals to be Litigants in Texas Court?

I have been warning for years now that the animal rights movement is seeking to create moral and legal equality between humans and animals. One tactic is to have courts permit animals to become litigants in court, with animal liberationists as their guardians ad litem. In other words, the animal . . . . Continue Reading »

UCSF to Try Human Cloning

A few years ago UCSF tried to clone human life and failed. This story indicates that they are going to give it another try. One of the reasons I posted the link is that the misleading headline aside (eggs are not cloned, cloning creates embryos), the reportage by Chronicle science writer Carl Hall . . . . Continue Reading »

Ode to Representative Mary Pilcher Cook

Mary Pilcher Cook is a Kansas State Representative who is about as indomitable and dedicated a legislator as I have ever met. She is honest, committed, and moral. One of her primary causes is to outlaw all human cloning in the great state of Kansas, an issue that has made her a lot of political . . . . Continue Reading »

A Right to "Self Preservation"

A Court of Appeals has ruled that terminally ill people have the right to access experimental drug treatments that might save their lives. Ruling that dying patients have a basic “right of self-preservation,” the court held that experimental drugs that have passed the first phase of FDA . . . . Continue Reading »

Tags

Loading...

Filter First Thoughts Posts