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The Lancet just published an editorial that essentially supports unlimited migration — although it doesn’t use that term — and makes no...
Here we go again. Several years ago, the radical Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) sued in New York to have chimps declared "persons." The case...
In recent years, the term "service provider" has been deployed widely as a descriptor for doctors and other medical professionals....
Kimberly Guilfoyle, our ambassador to Greece, just met with His Beatitude Theophilos III, the Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem, in Athens. Such...
Gallup just issued its annual poll on "moral acceptability." I was struck by the dramatically different results in the two questions about...
The utilitarian bioethicist Peter Singer opposes human exceptionalism. Indeed, he contends that being human is irrelevant to determining moral value....
There is an old joke What do you call the medical student who finished last in his class? Answer: "Doctor." The increasing legalization of...
The "nature rights" movement continues to advance. Now, a bill has been presented for consideration in the U.K. House of Lords by a member...
AI gets most of the attention, but biotechnology may be even more impactful on the human future. Indeed, I think it is the most powerful technology...
I am being asked for my thoughts about the Hacks series finale. I don’t want to spoil the last episode for people who haven’t seen it yet. But the...
In a newly released paper in the prestigious journal Bioethics, three prominent bioethicists argue that when someone decides to commit suicide via...
Environmentalism is growing increasingly radical and irrational, epitomized by the “nature rights” movement that seeks to declare geological...
In Lane County, Ore., an attempt to grant rights to nature — specifically, to grant “watersheds” the right to “exist, flourish, regenerate and...
Serious moves are afoot to allow ending the lives of dementia patients, either by allowing them to be killed by lethal jab euthanasia if requested in...
The attacks on one of the fundamental essences of being human — free will — continue apace. The latest example can be found in the BBC’s Science...
These days, it seems that everything is about bioethics. Case in point: A zoologist named Sam Zeveloff has criticized RFK Jr. in Stat News for...
Canada has gone hog wild for euthanasia. But the pro-death tide may — may — be beginning to turn. The province of Alberta just passed a bill that...
Uterine transplants are becoming more common to enable infertile women — and perhaps, eventually men — to give birth. How’s that project going?...
Last year, I wrote here warning about a bioethics paper that advocated restricting the amount of orally received food and water given to dementia...
David Morens was formerly a senior adviser to Anthony Fauci when he was the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases...
The other day, I wrote about Wendy Duffy, a healthy woman in deep grief because of the death of her son, who was planning to die at a Swiss death...
A grieving mother who is in good health has been accepted for termination by a Swiss suicide clinic. From the New York Post story: A physically...
Assisted suicide is not discussed much at the federal level. But at a recent Senate committee hearing, Senator James Lankford (R., Okla.) asked HHS...
After a bear was euthanized in California because she paw-swiped a human who owned a house under which the bruin and her cubs were living, there was a...
Anyone paying attention knows that the medical establishment does not believe in any restriction on abortion, and moreover, that it should be provided...
Once killing becomes an acceptable answer to human suffering, the kinds of “suffering” that justifies killing continually expands. In the...
My friend Bobby Schindler, the late Terri Schiavo’s brother, is one of the most kind, decent, and humble people I know. And yet, because he dared to...
A Canadian activist has argued that the mentally ill must have access to euthanasia to prevent their committing suicide. From the National Post story:...
A new medical study out of Finland has found that gender-dysphoric adolescents and young adults who were subjected to gender reassignment...
The science establishment is continuing its drift into mysticism regarding environmental issues. Our latest example comes from Nature — the most...
Brave new world alert! Scientists used a machine deployed in organ transplant medicine to keep a surgically removed human uterus alive for one day,...
The push for unlimited abortion access is now advancing beyond the issue of "choice." A newly published article in Ethics, the University of...
A few months ago, I posted about a Republican-sponsored bill in Wisconsin that would preempt local communities from enacting “nature rights”...
An article in The Lancet decies the recent 17th World Conference on Bioethics, Medical Ethics, and Health Law for failing to condemn “genocide.”...
The University of Sussex has published a "toolkit" to enable political and legal action to grant "rights" to trees. This is...
Planned Parenthood is having a rougher time than it once did. Fifty or so clinics have closed due to financial difficulties associated with defunding...
The usual suspect medical and science journals have featured far fewer columns promoting progressive politics of late. Alas, it couldn't last...
As the West lunges toward propagating a right to be made dead, the deleterious societal impacts of being legally “MAIDed” (killed by “medical...
As I am sure readers know that Ben Sasse is dying from pancreatic cancer. But that doesn’t mean he is through. The former senator has refused to...
California reprehensibly enacted a law that prohibits school administrators and teachers from informing parents about their child’s gender...
I read John R. Puri’s post urging the U.S. to rejoin the World Health Organization because, 1) it is merely an advisory body and 2), it collects...
Readers may recall the Charlie Gard and Alfie Evans cases in the U.K., in which National Health Service hospitals took the parents of terminally ill...
I saw Dan’s comment on the repose of Jesse Jackson. I think he left a mixed legacy (don’t we all?), but I will always be grateful to him for...
The ideological fever that pushed the transgender agenda to the forefront of Western cultural and political life has not broken. True, a jury awarded...
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