Who Owns the Human Body?

by Jennifer Lahl

Proposals to use brain-dead women as “whole body gestational surrogates” are utterly inhumane.  Continue Reading »

28 Feb 2023

Card-Carrying Precadavers

by Aaron Kheriaty

It has been almost twenty years since I dissected a dead human body. It still seems strange: My first encounter with a human body to learn the art of healing was an encounter with a corpse. What is more, I took this body to pieces. In any other context, this act would have been a felony. Respect for . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jun 2018

Let's Use Pigs as Organ “Donors”

by Wesley J. Smith

Scientists are learning how to transplant organs from pigs into humans—and animal rights activists are outraged.  Continue Reading »

18 Aug 2017

A Grim Harvest

by Allen H. Roberts II

Upon 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 »

1 Jan 2017

A Right to Assisted Suicide for the Institutionalized Mentally Ill

by Wesley J. Smith

The state is abandoning the institutionalized terminally ill to their darkest impulses. This isn’t compassion. Continue Reading »

11 Nov 2016

Euthanasia by Organ Harvesting

by Wesley J. Smith

Shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder.—Leon Kass The ethics of medicine aren’t what they used to be. Sanctity of life? That’s so passé. The Hippocratic Oath? Fuggettaboudit! The modern healthcare system is expected to embrace properly utilitarian perspectives.Take . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Apr 2016

Save the Liver!

by Wesley J. Smith

By Jennifer LahlToday’s LA Times is covering a story on four Japanese gang figures who received liver transplants at UCLA. The story raises all of the ethical issues surrounding organ donation and transplantation. How do we ethically share organs which are scarce and precious and needed for . . . . Continue Reading »

30 May 2008

Will Wonders Never Cease?

by Wesley J. Smith

By Jennifer LahlA friend sent me the link to this news story the other day. In this Culture of Death, I never ceased to be amazed with the miraculous. This story highlights, yet another person, not quite dead yet, who suddenly and amazingly woke up. Her family said their good byes, and had pulled . . . . Continue Reading »

24 May 2008