Category: Culture & Ethics
The Worst MDs Can Become Death Prescribers
One just needs the terminal diagnosis — sometimes mistaken — to qualify for the lethal pills.
Evolutionary Biologist Now Wants Doctors to Kill Suicidal Depressed People
This is not a slippery slope. This is an ice cliff.
Why Does This Evolutionary Biologist Want to Euthanize Handicapped Babies?
Jerry Coyne argues, astonishingly, that the vulnerability of handicapped children justifies killing them.
California to Outlaw Pet Stores Selling Many Pets
The purported goal here is to prevent pet stores from obtaining their dogs from puppy mills and selling these abused animals to an unwary public. I’m not buying.
Charlie Gard Has Died
There will be much more to say about the utilitarian drift of medicine and the increasing loss of patient autonomy.
Human Genetic Engineering Begins
It may start with curing disease. But it won’t stay there. Many are drooling to engage in eugenic genetic enhancements.
Euthanasia Apologists Conceal the Truth About What They Advocate
It is homicide: no different in outcome — i.e., killing — from if the doctor shot the patient in the head.
In the Charlie Gard Case, the High Cost of Coercion
The American specialist finally allowed by the courts to examine Charlie Gard apparently concluded that the baby is now beyond his help.
Euthanasia Reveals Atheism’s Moral Confusion
Jerry Coyne is surprised at the outrage that atheist ethicist Peter Singer has received for advocacy of infant euthanasia.
Jerry Coyne, Infanticide, and the Evolution of Morality
I’m confident Coyne will be outraged by this proposal — as he should be. However, this is exactly how we treat dogs.