Of Vincent Lambert and Ethical Rubicons
by Wesley J. SmithThe forced dehydration of a patient in France affirms a deadly bioethics. Continue Reading »
Alfie Evans and Our Moral Crossroads
by Charles C. CamosyAs with Charlie Gard before him, Alfie Evans’s death is being pursued by the very people whose vocation it is to help and protect him. Continue Reading »
Behind the Curtain of Assisted Suicide Advocacy
by Wesley J. SmithThe assisted suicide movement pretends to have a very limited agenda. But this is a lie. Continue Reading »
Euthanasia for Alzheimer’s Patients?
by Wesley J. SmithMore and more countries favor policies permitting Alzheimer's patients to be euthanized. Continue Reading »
Euthanasia and the Belgian Brothers of Charity
by Charles C. CamosyThe Roman Catholic Brothers of Charity in Belgium have capitulated to their home country’s embrace of euthanasia. Continue Reading »
Je suis Charlie, Once More
by R. R. RenoWhen we lose the distinction between killing and letting die, euthanasia starts to seem more plausible. Continue Reading »
Pro-Lifers: Get Out of Medicine!
by Wesley J. SmithDoctors in the United States cannot be forced to perform abortions or assist suicides. But there is a concerted campaign to change this. Continue Reading »
While We’re at It
by R. R. Reno♦ Michael Novak died in February. He was a pillar of First Things for more than two decades. Like our founder, Richard John Neuhaus, Michael had been an ardent proponent of a number of progressive causes. Some of his early books about post–Vatican II Catholicism can make you blush. But in the . . . . Continue Reading »
A Grim Harvest
by Allen H. Roberts IIUpon learning of his son’s fatal heart disease, a father arranges to donate his own heart in order to save his son’s life. The surgery will result in his death; his son will learn of it only after the fact. Should the hospital administrators allow the surgery to proceed?Ethicist Paul Ramsey . . . . Continue Reading »
A “Merciless Assault on Human Dignity”
by George WeigelIn Ontario today, doctors who decline to euthanize their patients are required to provide an “effective referral”: They are obliged, on pain of losing their license to practice, to send a troubled patient to a doctor of lighter conscience who will kill that patient. Cardinal Collins is fighting this abomination. Continue Reading »
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