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21Aug 2022 by Post

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

12Jun 2022 by Post

Canadian Bill to Allow Euthanasia of Dementia Patients

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If the patient resists, the killing is not supposed to take place. Right. As though the person would know what was happening. Source

13Mar 2022 by Post

Our Looming Procreative Anarchy

assisted reproductive technology, bioethics, biotechnology, Children, Culture & Ethics, family, Fathers, gametes, genomes, in vitro fertilization, Medicine, mothers, ovum, parenthood, Reproduction and Fertility, sperm, Technology

It is no secret that the traditional family is under unprecedented assault. But we haven’t seen anything yet. Source

07Jan 2022 by Post

Sound the Alarm on Germline Genetic Editing

bioethics, biology, Casey Luskin, China, Chinese government, CRISPR, Culture & Ethics, eugenics, genetics, germline editing, Harvest House, He Jiankui, human dignity, ID The Future, Medicine, Podcast, The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, Wesley J. Smith

As Wesley Smith explains, it’s not just that germline editing could lead to unintended health consequences. Source

13Jun 2021 by Post

Scientists Make Male Rat Give Birth

bioethics, biotechnology, birth, Caesarean birth, China, Culture & Ethics, IVF embryos, Joseph Fletcher, Journal of Medical Ethics, mammals, Medicine, rats, The Ethics of Genetic Control, uterine transplants, uterus

Scientists just took a big step toward making that once unthinkable prospect — biological males giving birth — a reality. Source

09Jun 2021 by Post

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

05Dec 2020 by Post

Listen: Darwinism, Bioethics, and Human Rights

animal standing, anti-humanism, Ban Ki-moon, bioethics, Cass Sunstein, Darwinism, ecological advocacy, ecology, human dignity, human rights, ID The Future, Podcast, The War on Humans, Uncategorized, United Nations, Wesley Smith

Wesley Smith explains why we need to take the threat of the anti-humanism movement seriously. Source

16Nov 2020 by Post

Wesley Smith: An Anti-Human Movement

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A good and worthwhile conservation movement is being corrupted, and this hurts humans, especially in the developing world and among marginalized groups. Source

14Aug 2020 by Post

“Morality Pills”: Ethicist Calls for Drugs to Solve COVID Non-Compliance

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Whatever one thinks about government mandates relating to the coronavirus, Parker Crutchfield’s “solution” is worse than the problem. Source

22Mar 2020 by Post

In Argentina, Doctor Sentenced to Prison for Refusing to Terminate Pregnancy

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In Sweden, midwives can be fired and deemed unemployable for refusing abortion. In Ontario, Canada, doctors can face professional discipline for refusing to administer (or refer for) euthanasia. Ditto to refusing an abortion in Victoria, Australia. In California, a Catholic hospital is being sued — with the explicit blessing of the courts — for refusing to allow a transgender hysterectomy. But now in Argentina, the right to obtain an abortion has been declared so fundamental that an objecting M.D. can be held criminally culpable for refusing to terminate a pregnancy. An Impossibility? That would seem to be a moral and legal impossibility. But Argentina just elevated the “medical conscience” controversy to a whole new level of concern — from the potential of not “only” having one’s professional license revoked, but…

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