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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 12, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, abortion, baby, doctors, embryo, embryology, fetus, mucus, New York Times, patients, photographs, pregnancy, uterus, women}

The “Pregnancy Tissue” Euphemism

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 12, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine

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

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 7, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Botany
Ethics
Human Exceptionalism
Life Sciences
Tagged
, abortion, animal rights, animal welfare, Belgium, birth, California, Canada, doctors, Finland, France, gender dysphoria, gender-affirming care, glaciers, Holocaust, human life, insects, Jews, Journal of Medical Ethics, mastectomies, Netherlands, Ontario, Oregon, organ donation, peas, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, rivers, Sweden, unborn children, United Kingdom}

The Fear of Suffering Is Driving Us Crazy

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 7, 2023

Bioethics, Botany, Ethics, Human Exceptionalism, Life Sciences

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Our suffering phobia has triggered a harmful societal neurosis that has both subverted human exceptionalism and undermined societal common sense. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
December 31, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Medicine
Tagged
, abortion, asexual reproduction, budding, corals, egg, embryo, fetus, Homo sapiens, human being, human development, human life, Jerry Coyne, microorganisms, morality, mother, murder, pain, pro-life, Roman Catholic, sperm, sponges, tissue, womb, worms, zygote}

#2 Story of 2022: If a Fetus Isn’t a Human Being, What Is It?

_{Michael Egnor
December 31, 2022

Bioethics, Biology, Medicine

7}

How is it that a leading professor of biology could fundamentally misunderstand the biology of human development? Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
September 12, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Medicine
Tagged
, abortion, conception, Darwinists, DNA, egg, intelligent design, parasite, personhood, pregnancy, PZ Myers, sentience, sperm, womb}

Biologist P. Z. Meyers Denies That Life Begins at Conception

_{Michael Egnor
September 12, 2022

Bioethics, Biology, Medicine

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Obviously, life begins at conception. With the fusion of the sperm and the egg, a new human life begins. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 1, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Culture
Ethics
Tagged
, abortion, culture, eugenics, Harvard University, ideology, journals, morality, Politics, Science (journal), scientific establishment, Supreme Court, United States, wokeness}

How Political Ideology Has Undermined Scientific Credibility

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 1, 2022

Bioethics, Culture, Ethics

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Science goes badly off the track when it succumbs to ideological pressures — as it did with the eugenics movement. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 21, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Science
Tagged
, abortion, Colorado, embryos, faith, fetus, Groningen protocol, human beings, Journal of Medical Ethics, Netherlands, Peter Singer, pregnancy, public policy, rights, Second Amendment, The New England Journal of Medicine, unborn, Vermont, World Health Organization}

Pro-Abortion Absolutism and Its Consequences

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 21, 2022

Bioethics, Medicine, Science

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Abortion absolutism is a radical departure from the once well-accepted idea that nascent human beings — at least at some level — deserve respect and protection. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
August 19, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Medicine
Science
Tagged
, abortion, Associated Press, autonomy, Brave New World, Canada, depression, discrimination, euthanasia, homicide, human dignity, medicine, physician-assisted suicide, suffering}

“Thank You for Waiting. The Doctor Will Kill You Now…”

_{Michael Egnor
August 19, 2022

Bioethics, Ethics, Medicine, Science

3}

Canada has some of the most permissive euthanasia laws in the world and allows people with disabilities to be killed on request. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 17, 2022

Categories
Ethics
Philosophy
Science Reporting
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, abortion, African Americans, assisted suicide, babies, bias, censorship, culture, human being, media, morality, Politics, public health, Racism, religion, Roman Catholic, Supreme Court}

Pro-Abortion MDs Want Media to Cancel Pro-Life Voices

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 17, 2022

Ethics, Philosophy, Science Reporting, Scientific Freedom

4}

Many abortion absolutists claim that pro-lifers are “racist” because restrictions on abortion will “disproportionately” impact women of color. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
August 12, 2022

Categories
Ethics
Medicine
Science
Tagged
, abortion, American Medical Association, autonomy, Dobbs v. Jackson, doctor, execution, health care, homicide, killing, law, medicine, mother, patients}

Why Abortion Is Not Health Care

_{Michael Egnor
August 12, 2022

Ethics, Medicine, Science

3}

Consider that abortion is a procedure in which death is the outcome that defines success. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
August 2, 2022

Categories
Ethics
Medicine
Science
Tagged
, abortion, abortionists, babies, consent, Dobbs v. Jackson, doctors, execution, fetus, health, heart disease, incompetence, killing, laws, medicine, mothers, negligence, Roe v. Wade, suicide, unborn}

Will Laws Protecting the Unborn Endanger Mothers?

_{Michael Egnor
August 2, 2022

Ethics, Medicine, Science

6}

A fallacy used by abortionists and their allies is that doctors will be handicapped by having to comply with the law applicable to the care of their patients. Read More ›