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Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 25, 2018

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Bioethics
Medicine
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, __k-review, administrators, assisted suicide, British Columbia, Canada, death, dignity, euthanasia, hemlock, hospice, killing, London, MAiD, medicine, palliative care, patients}

Canadian Hospice Says No to Euthanasia

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February 25, 2018

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Cecily Saunders, who created the modern hospice movement, stood steadfastly against assisted-suicide legalization. Read More ›

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Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 22, 2018

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Bioethics
Medicine
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, __k-review, authoritarianism, BBC, Charlie Gard, coercion, diagnosis, food, futile care, hospital, Italy, medicine, Rome, United Kingdom, water}

In the U.K., Another Shut-Off-the-Baby’s-Life-Support Case

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February 22, 2018

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Forcing this baby to die when there is no diagnosis would be an act of naked medical authoritarianism. Read More ›

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Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 21, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Life Sciences
Medicine
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, __k-review, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, China, creation, CRISPR, disease, embryo, evolution, gene editing, human nature, human-animal hybrid, medicine, National Geographic, organ transplant, pandemic, Research, sheep, terrorism}

Hybrid Sheep-Human Embryos Show Need for Biotech Regulation

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February 21, 2018

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Biotech is rocketing forward into areas that impact life at the most fundamental and basic levels. Read More ›

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February 20, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Medicine
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, __k-review, Charles Darwin, Darwin Day in America, Darwinian medicine, eugenics, George Draper, International Medical Congress, John West, Jonathan Wells, Joshua Lederberg, Karl Pearson, Louis Pasteur, medicine, Michael Behe, Michael Egnor, microbes, Nazism, Pasteurization, Pierre-Olivier Méthot, public health, René Dubos, Samuel Alizon, The Edge of Evolution, Zombie Science (book)}

Irreconcilable Differences: Can Darwinism Be Pasteurized?

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February 20, 2018

Evolution, Medicine

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An advocate for Darwinian medicine wants to bring two historical opponents in the design debate, Pasteur and Darwin, into a peace treaty for the good of public health. Read More ›

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Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 10, 2018

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Bioethics
Medicine
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, __k-review, Alzheimer’s, anxiety, assisted suicide, Brittany Maynard, CNN, dignity, hospice, illness, old age, suffering, suicide}

Defining Dignity Up

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February 10, 2018

Bioethics, Medicine

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When you look at the studies of why people decide to commit assisted suicide or be euthanized, a consistent pattern emerges. Read More ›

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Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 4, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Life Sciences
Medicine
Tagged
, __nedited, abortion, biotechnology, chromosomes, cloning, fetus, Frankenstein, genetic material, gestation, human cloning, human life, IVF, mitochondria, mitochondrial DNA, UK Parliament, United Kingdom, zygote}

First State-Sanctioned Three-Parent Babies to be Born

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February 4, 2018

Bioethics, Life Sciences, Medicine

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The children could have serious health consequences — either early or later in life — having been generated, after all, from two broken eggs. Read More ›

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Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 1, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
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, __k-review, brain death, Dartmouth College, dehydration, Jahi McMath, Michael Schiavo, neurology, Terri Schiavo, The New Yorker, video}

More Myths of Terri Schiavo

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February 1, 2018

Bioethics, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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One myth is that the family somehow edited videos of Terri to make it appear falsely that she was conscious. Read More ›

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Wesley J. Smith

Date
January 31, 2018

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Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, authoritarianism, doctors, families, futile care theory, law, medical futility, patients, Virginia}

Medical Coercion Comes to Virginia?

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 31, 2018

Bioethics, Medicine

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Futile care theory (as I call it) or medical futility allows doctors to unilaterally refuse wanted life-sustaining treatment based on the physician’s values. Read More ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
January 30, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Life Sciences
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, cannabis, clones, cows, embryo, embryology, legislation, marijuana, monkey, reproductive cloning, scientists, Wesley J. Smith}

Monkey Clones: Harbingers of Things to Come?

_{Ann Gauger
January 30, 2018

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An amazing technical accomplishment, it also elicits dread. Read More ›

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Wesley J. Smith

Date
January 26, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Medicine
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, __k-review, conscience rights, doctors, faith, human life, medicine, patients, physicians, technocrats}

Medical Establishment Opposes Conscience Rights

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January 26, 2018

Bioethics, Ethics, Medicine

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The Massachusetts Medical Society wants their pro-life colleagues, and those who believe in the Hippocratic Oath, to be forced to violate religious and moral beliefs. Read More ›