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21Jun 2023 by Post

Medical Association Goes “Neutral” on Killing Patients

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Doctors should lead on crucial moral and issues such as this, not be merely flotsam and jetsam. Source

24Mar 2023 by Post

Death Activists Oppose Limits on Virtual Access to Assisted Suicide

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What activists really seek is assisted suicide (and eventually, lethal-injection euthanasia) without meaningful restrictions. Source

12Mar 2023 by Post

The “Pregnancy Tissue” Euphemism

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The last thing that abortion-rights activists want is an accurate description of what a pregnancy termination destroys. Source

17Sep 2022 by Post

Egnor: Why More Sex Change Medicine for Teens in U.S. than Europe?

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One factor in the difference between the United States and Europe may be less accurate information in the United States. Source

25Aug 2022 by Post

Two Tales from the Euthanasia Dystopia

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In Spain, a criminal who shot four people and was, in turn, shot in the spine by police and paralyzed, was granted death by euthanasia. 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

30Apr 2022 by Post

Now It’s Assisted Suicide by Zoom Meeting

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Remember when we were told that assisted suicide would only be engaged in as part of an intimate and long-term physician/patient relationship? Source

27Jan 2021 by Post

Now Another State Wants Non–Physician-Assisted Suicide

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Hot on the heels of Washington State, it’s Hawaii. A bill has been filed to allow nurse practitioners to lethally prescribe. Source

05Jun 2020 by Post

Suicide by Zoom — Technology and Dehumanization

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Some have seen a silver lining in the pandemic and welcomed its encouragement of medicine practiced online, potentially freeing doctors to work across state borders, and widening access to care (or virtual care) generally. I’m not sure that’s to be celebrated in its entirety. The trend toward “telehealth” undercuts the crucial personal relationship between doctor and patient, which had already been in retreat before the virus came along. There are other downsides, too, including lethal ones. As the Philadelphia Inquirer reports, “The pandemic is helping U.S. abortion-rights advocates achieve a long-standing goal: Make it easier for women to use pills to end pregnancies up to 10 weeks.” Get your abortion pills online — what could be more convenient? NPR approves, quoting New York physician Meera Shah with Planned Parenthood: “I…

24May 2020 by Post

Doctor’s Diary: Fear Is a Gift from Our Designer

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Editor’s note: Dr. Simmons is the author most recently of Are We Here to Re-Create Ourselves? He is a Fellow with Discovery Institute’s Center for Science & Culture. As a physician, I have cared for many patients who were fearful. Often with good reason, but not always. Might fear actually be a purposeful design? Might it be present to protect a person? One might liken fear to pain, which is a similar gift. How would we have survived as a species if running bare-footed across sharp rocks or being stung by an irritated hive of yellow jackets (or murder hornets!) didn’t hurt? Without pain how would a child learn not to touch a hot stove? Or, pull away immediately to lessen the damage? In 1997, Gavin de Becker authored The Gift of…

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