Tag: world
In Europe, Euthanasia Is Not a Human Right
Two cases were brought to the European Court of Human Rights, hoping for a Canada-style EU-wide imposition of euthanasia as a fundamental right.
"Biological Colonialism" Bites Back
I coined the term to describe the practice of well-off Westerners who travel to poor countries to exploit the destitute for body parts and functions.
Pope Francis Embraces Human Exceptionalism
There was some buzz in the liberal Catholic press that Pope Francis might embrace “nature rights.”
France Debates Slow-Motion Euthanasia
If the euthanasia pushers can’t get people dead one way, they try another.
Euthanasia of the Mentally Ill Should Be Bigger News
We live in a culture of nihilism, in which abandonment is called compassion and true compassion is denigrated as paternalism.