Tag: futile care
Parents — Not Bioethicists — Should Decide about Baby’s Life Support
Tinslee Lewis, age 11 months, has a heart defect. The doctors claim the case is hopeless.
Bioethics Coming to Elementary and High Schools?
Bioethicist Jacob M. Appel wants the bioethics movement to educate your children about the policy and personal conundrums that involve medical care and health public policy.
Before Texas Senate Committee, Smith Testifies on Medical Coercion Law, “Worst in the U.S.”
Thank you to Wesley J. Smith for fighting what’s often a very lonely fight against the increasingly dehumanizing tendency in contemporary medicine.
Why Families Should Decide When to “Pull Plugs”
When Frank saw signs of life, doctors would dismiss his observation as a “reflex.” How often I have heard that over 25 years of anti-euthanasia advocacy!
Courts Decide It’s Time for Alfie Evans to Die
We are witnessing a steady and growing imposition of technocracy in medicine, where “experts” define the parameters of care.