Here’s abortionist Willie Parker’s incoherent argument against human equality

By Paul Stark Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life “Abortion kills a human being,” said Willie Parker, who has killed some 20,000 human beings, in a debate last month about the ethics of abortion. Parker is a prominent abortion practitioner and author of Life’s Work: A Moral Argument for Choice. “Women don’t give birth to puppies,” …

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Canada’s euthanasia law is a moral outrage

Canada has the dubious honour of being the global capital of euthanasia By Alex SchadenbergExecutive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Kevin Yuill spoke at the Euthanasia Symposium at the European Parliament in Brussels on November 16. On November 17, he wrote a piece for Spiked  titled  “Canada’s euthanasia laws are a moral outrage”. Yuill explains his …

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Can I trust the medical community to protect my life?

By Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition On September 14 Jennifer Henderson wrote an investigative report for Medpage Today focusing on Canadian born New Hampshire Cardiac surgeon Yvon Baribeau, who after his forced retirement, at 63, the Boston Globe learned that: Ultimately, there has been no U.S. physician with more settlements involving surgical deaths over the last two …

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‘Anything Goes’ Reproduction Gathers Steam 

By Wesley J. Smith  Editor’s note. This is excerpted from a post at National Review Online Medicine isn’t just about wellness and curing illness anymore. It is also a central resource facilitating lifestyle enablement and the fulfillment of subjective personal desires. Cosmetic surgery — as distinguished from restorative procedures — is an obvious example. At …

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Ethical perils lie ahead after the creation of ‘synthetic embryos’

Israeli scientists have succeeded in creating and growing mice embryos outside a womb By Michael Cook Israeli scientists have created the world’s first “synthetic embryos”. They used mouse stem cells to create embryos, nurtured them in an artificial womb, and grew them for 8½ days – roughly the equivalent of three weeks of a human pregnancy. …

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‘Futile Care’ Attempt to Force Covid Patient Off Life Support

 By Wesley J. Smith  “Futile care” is a pronounced threat to patient autonomy and the equality of all human life. This is the idea. When doctors think that the quality of a patient’s life is not worth living — but the patient, family, or surrogate want care to continue — doctors can overrule patients and …

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Man who stabbed pregnant woman won’t be prosecuted for death of her unborn baby

By Right to Life UK A man who stabbed a pregnant woman multiple times in Belgium will not be prosecuted for the death of her unborn baby. On Monday, in the Belgian province of Liège, a man, named only as Aslan, stabbed a woman numerous times in the face and neck after an argument broke …

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Science moves another step closer to human ‘hatcheries’

Scientists acknowledge the ethical problems — and then ignore them  By Michael Cook  Another step in “an explosion of new techniques and ideas for studying early development” of human embryos came last week from Israel. Researchers there have successfully grown mouse embryos for 12 days, which is about half the animal’s natural gestation period. The …

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The Divisions in Medical Ethics Could Cost Your or a Loved One’s Life!

By Nancy Valko I wanted to be a nurse since I was 5. I was drawn to nursing not only because I wanted to help people but also because medical ethics standards were so high, especially in contrast to some of the corrupt business practices that I saw. I graduated from a Catholic nursing school …

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Roe v. Wade’s disastrous impact on medical ethics

By Nancy Valko Most people volunteer for the pro-life movement. I consider myself a draftee. For me, there was no “choice.” I became a conscript because of personal and professional experiences that followed in the wake of the Roe v. Wade decision. I was a young intensive care unit nurse in 1973. Like most people …

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Healing, not Enhancing: Drawing Lines in Medical Ethics

By John Stonestreet with Roberto Rivera In the 1976 made-for-television movie, “The Boy in the Plastic Bubble,” a then-unknown John Travolta introduced Americans to a condition technically called “X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency.” Or, as people have called it since the movie, “bubble boy disease.” Children with “bubble boy disease” can’t fight off infections that the …

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Back to the source: the Hippocratic Oath re-examined

By Michael Cook Over the centuries the Hippocratic Oath has expressed the ideals of the medical profession, although nowadays other versions have supplanted it for graduating medical students– if they take any oath at all. If taken literally the Oath is an anachronism. Who today “swears by Apollo Physician, by Asclepius, by Hygieia, by Panacea, …

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