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27Oct 2025 by Post

Medical Journal Screed Decries All Fetal Personhood Laws

abortion, bioethics, black babies, demagoguery, doctors, Dorothy Roberts, drug addiction, ectopic pregnancy, embryology, fetal homicide, fetal personhood, fetus, Killing the Black Body, medical conditions, Medicine, miscarriages, pregnancy, Pro lifers, pro-life laws, racists, slaveholders, slavery, substance abusers, The New England Journal of Medicine, unborn children, United States, Vermont

The authors imply that laws that protect unborn children are racist. But pro-lifers want more black babies born and protected from harm, not fewer. Source

24Oct 2025 by Post

For a Long Time, Dementia Was the New Leprosy

Alzheimer’s disease, bioethics, blood pressure, C. Everett Koop, cognitive impairment, death, delay, dementia, drug interactions, Ebola, euthanasia, grandchildren, grandmother, health conditions, Medicine, Michael Bloomberg, New York City, old-age home, prevention, Quebec, Resolve to Save Lives, Science Alert, Tessa Koumoundouros, The Formula for Better Health, Tibi Puiu, Tom Frieden, urinary tract infection, vitamin B12, Wall Street Journal, ZME Science, __featured3

I use the term “delay” rather than “prevention” for a reason: It may be that the human brain will inevitably start to break down after a century or so. Source

26Sep 2025 by Post

J. K. Rowling Comes Out Against Legalized Assisted Suicide

activism, arts, assisted dying, assisted suicide, bioethics, Children, coercion, disability rights, England, equality, facilitation, gender ideology, Harry Potter, House of Commons, J. K. Rowling, liberals, Neil Murray, physicians, popular culture, prevention, private spaces, suicidal people, Wales, women

Two of the core tenets of liberalism are (supposed to be) protecting vulnerable people from exploitation and promoting equality among all people. Source

26Sep 2025 by Post

Nature Right Pushes Neo-Pagan Mysticism at Highest Academic Levels

advocacy, bioethics, Cherokee, dams, earth goddess, environmental public policies, Faith & Science, flowing, Great Lakes, Harvard Climate Action Week, Harvard Kennedy School, human exceptionalism, human harm, indigenous knowledge, intelligentsia, nature rights, neo-pagan mysticism, Pachamama, rivers, water

Most recently, the Harvard Kennedy School hosted a symposium on “nature rights” undergirded by “indigenous knowledge.” Source

21Sep 2025 by Post

Will We Care For or Kill Dementia Patients?

advance directive, Alzheimer’s disease, antibiotics, bioethics, burden, dementia, dementia patients, doula, hospice, killing, Medicine, nursing, palliative care, patients, Suffering, suicide, Thaddeus Mason Pope

I understand that people are terrified of dementia. Believe me, I get it. My mother died of Alzheimer’s. But I can’t wrap my head around the fact that advocacy for killing/suicide as the answer to the difficulties caused by the condition is becoming ubiquitous. Noted bioethicist and lawyer Thaddeus Mason Pope has written an essay, to be published in an edited volume, on this very issue. It lists eleven ways people can “avoid late-stage dementia,” and almost all involve intentionally ending life. Remember when we were told that advance medical directives are the key to not receiving life-extending treatment one does not want? They are, but that’s not good enough for Pope, because it doesn’t guarantee death: This strategy is Read More › Source

06Sep 2025 by Post

Here It Comes: First Transgenderism, Next Transableism

amputee, Anthony Kennedy, arms, bioethics, Body Identity Integrity Disorder, body parts, capacities, Culture, Daily Mail, Due Process Clause, insurance fraud, insurance scam, legs, limiting principle, Medicine, mental illness, Neil Hopper, Obergefell v. Hodges, paraplegic, personal autonomy, self-definition, self-restraint, sexual obsession, societal expectations, spinal cord, Transgender

Why is it not also appropriate to cut off unwanted arms or snip spinal cords if that brings emotional relief? Source

04Sep 2025 by Post

Xi and Putin: Tyranny and Transhumanism

bioethics, biotechnology, carbon molecules, China, Communists, death, despair, Falun Gong, hope, immortality, life-extension, obliteration, organ black market, organs, Orthodox Christians, political prisoners, Russia, Technology, transhumanism, transhumanists, tyranny, Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping

Transhumanism is mostly a materialistic wail of despair in the night, a desperate quest for hope for those who are terrified that death leads to obliteration. Source

03Sep 2025 by Post