Joseph Fletcher’s Dark Dreams Becoming Our Reality
by Wesley J. SmithJoseph Fletcher mounted a frontal intellectual assault on the ideal of universal human equality. Continue Reading »
Joseph Fletcher mounted a frontal intellectual assault on the ideal of universal human equality. Continue Reading »
Recent advances in human cloning, synthetic biology, and CRISPR technology pose grave ethical questions—yet our president seems uninterested. Continue Reading »
Some these days are forced to battle doctors and bioethicists in order to properly care for their loved ones. Their courage is inspiring. Continue Reading »
The First Things Podcast, Episode 30. Featuring: Fordham ethicist Charles Camosy on the euthanasia of Charlie Gard; and Julia Yost on sin and death in Jane Austen. Continue Reading »
Once we reject human exceptionalism, injustices like infanticide start to seem virtuous. Continue Reading »
When we lose the distinction between killing and letting die, euthanasia starts to seem more plausible. Continue Reading »
Since Roe v. Wade, three major cultural tipping points fueled popular acceptance of our culture of death. Continue Reading »
Even chaotic debate (about cloning, gene therapy, and three-parent embryos) is preferable to our current, aimless drift. Continue Reading »
Those who throw out accusations of “speciesism” seek to subvert human exceptionalism. Their framework should be rejected as a prescription for tyranny every time it is proposed. Continue Reading »
There has been much handwringing about the news that scientists injected human stem cells into pig embryos, creating a mostly-pig-but-a-little-bit-human chimera. Here are some other questions that must be debated about this emerging technology while it remains in the gestational stage: Continue Reading »
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