26Jul 2025 by Post

Attacks on Medical Conscience Will Force Doctors to Take Human Life

abortion, assisted suicide, Australia, bioethics, British Columbia, Canada, doctors, euthanasia, Ezekiel Emanuel, health care, health professionals, Hippocratic moral values, Hippocratic Oath, hospice, hospitals, human life, Julian Savulescu, medical conscience, medical school, medical values, Medicine, nurses, nursing homes, nursing school, Ontario, patients, Reproductive Science, transgenderism
Destroying conscience will inhibit talented people with particular moral or religious beliefs from entering medical and nursing schools. Source
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26Apr 2024 by Post

Bioethicists Want to Rule the World!

abortion, Anglicans, anti-racism, assisted suicide, bioethicists, bioethics, carbon tax, Catholicism, cease-fire, Culture & Ethics, DEI, disability, embryonic stem cells, equity, experts, Gaza, gender, gobbledygook, Hastings Center Report, health, human cloning, Impact Ethics, indigeneity, lawyers, MDs, medical conscience, Medicine, philosophers, pro-life, Progressive Ideology, Race, Second Amendment, sexuality, technocracy, university professors, Vardit Ravitsky, woke ideology
It seems to me that the best approach to the policy opinions of mainstream bioethicists is to consider the source, shrug, and carry on. Source
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22Mar 2020 by Post

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

abortion, adoption, animal personhood, ape, Argentina, BioEdge, bioethics, Culture & Ethics, doctor, gynecology, habeas corpus, Hippocratic Oath, human exceptionalism, human life, Leandro Rodriguez Lastra, legal impossibility, medical conscience, Medicine, moral impossibility, orangutan, pregnancy, rape, Rodríguez Lastra, Sweden, zoo
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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