Euthanasia’s Cultural Collateral Damage: Less Respect for Human Life

bioethics, Canada, cerebral palsy, Christiane Belzile, crime, Culture, Culture & Ethics, Edmonton Journal, euthanasia, euthanasia consciousness, Francois Belzile, human life, insulin, Jack Kevorkian, judges, manslaughter, Medicine, murder, Robert Latimer, science
Canada has fallen off the euthanasia moral cliff by allowing broad categories of people to be killed by doctors as a means of ending “suffering.” Source
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The Fear of Suffering Is Driving Us Crazy

abortion, American Pediatric Association, animal rights, animal welfare, Belgium, bioethics, birth, California, Canada, Culture & Ethics, doctors, ethics, Finland, France, Gender Dysphoria, gender-affirming care, geographical features, glaciers, Holocaust, human exceptionalism, human life, insects, Jews, Journal of Medical Ethics, Life Sciences, mastectomies, Netherlands, Ontario, Oregon, organ donation, peas, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, plants, rivers, Sweden, unborn children, United Kingdom, Voluntary Human Extinction Movement
Our suffering phobia has triggered a harmful societal neurosis that has both subverted human exceptionalism and undermined societal common sense. Source
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Are Transplant Doctors Causing Brain Death?

American College of Physicians, Amy Fiedler, Arizona, bioethics, brain death, cardiac arrest, death, doctors, heart, heart death, heartbeat, irreversibility, Jahi McMath, Medicine, MedPage Today, Nebraska, new york, normothermic regional perfusion with controlled donation after circulatory death, NRP-cDCD, organ farms, organ-transplant surgery, science, University of California San Francisco
A new and highly problematic means of obtaining organs is pushing the boundaries of the “dead donor rule." Source
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“Anything Goes” Reproduction Gathers Steam

BioEdge, bioethics, biotechnology, Brave New World, cosmetic surgery, dystopia, egg cells, embryos, experimentation, Human Fertilisation and Embryo Authority, illness, lifestyle, medical professionals, Medicine, public opinion, restorative procedures, science, selective reduction, stem cells, The Guardian, United Kingdom
Medicine isn’t just about curing illness anymore. It is also a resource facilitating lifestyle enablement and the fulfillment of subjective personal desires. Source
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Pro-Abortion Absolutism and Its Consequences

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Abortion absolutism is a radical departure from the once well-accepted idea that nascent human beings — at least at some level — deserve respect and protection. Source
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Erika DeBenedictis and the Cost of Playing God

ARF, Audrey Hepburn, bioethics, Center for Genetics and Society, China, Culture & Ethics, Emily Reeves, Erika DeBenedictis, Evolution News, Forbes, gene editing, genome, He Jiankui, HIV, Hong Kong, INK4a, Intelligent Design, ISSCR, Jin-Soo Kim, Jordan Peterson, Marxists, Medicine, Nature (journal), scientists, Seoul National University, TEDx talk, twins, U.S. Senate, Wesley Smith
I won’t recap the splendid work Emily Reeves has already done here in dissecting the TEDx talk from a scientific angle. Source
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