Category: Medicine
Defining Dignity Up
When you look at the studies of why people decide to commit assisted suicide or be euthanized, a consistent pattern emerges.
First State-Sanctioned Three-Parent Babies to be Born
The children could have serious health consequences — either early or later in life — having been generated, after all, from two broken eggs.
More Myths of Terri Schiavo
One myth is that the family somehow edited videos of Terri to make it appear falsely that she was conscious.
Medical Coercion Comes to Virginia?
Futile care theory (as I call it) or medical futility allows doctors to unilaterally refuse wanted life-sustaining treatment based on the physician’s values.
Monkey Clones: Harbingers of Things to Come?
An amazing technical accomplishment, it also elicits dread.