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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 23, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, assisted suicide, Belgium, Canada, doctors, euthanasia, experts, lawmakers, Netherlands, parental consent, parents, pediatricians, United States}

Canadian Lawmakers Support Euthanasia for Minors without Parental Consent

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 23, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine

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Canada, being our closest cultural cousin, exerts a substantial influence on our own country’s social policies. 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
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 5, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, assisted suicide, Belgium, California, Canada, Colorado, Daily Mail, Death with Dignity, doctors, Germany, Netherlands, Oregon, Portland, Skype, suicide, Switzerland, Vermont, Zoom}

Suicide Tourism Comes to Oregon

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 5, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine

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Some jurisdictions are getting there faster and some slower. But that tide only flows in one direction. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 30, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Science
Tagged
, Africa, Afrotheria, Belgium, Egypt, Eocene, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, living fossils, Madagascar, mammals, Namibia, Paleogene, Pleistocene}

Fossil Friday: Fossil Elephant Shrews and the Abrupt Origin of Macroscelidea

_{Günter Bechly
December 30, 2022

Evolution, Paleontology, Science

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Elephant shrews are sometimes considered to be living fossils, and their origin is believed to go back 57.5 million years in the Paleocene. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 12, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, advance directive, Belgium, Canada, culture, dementia, disability, disease, doctors, euthanasia, illness, killing, Netherlands, nurse practitioner, patients}

Canadian Bill to Allow Euthanasia of Dementia Patients

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 12, 2022

Bioethics, Medicine

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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. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 22, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Belgium, Canada, doctors, euthanasia, medicine, Netherlands, organ donation, organ harvesting, organs}

Bioethicist: Let Doctors Kill the Healthy by Harvesting Organs

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 22, 2021

Bioethics, Medicine

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At first, this proposed killing license was supposed to be limited to patients on the verge of death or the permanently unconscious. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 17, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __cedited, assisted suicide, Belgium, Canada, coronavirus, euthanasia, Germany, Groningen protocol, human experimentation, infanticide, Jack Kevorkian, MAiD, medical assistance in dying, Netherlands, organ donation, pediatricians, quadriplegia, utilitarianism}

The Jack Kevorkian Plague

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 17, 2020

Bioethics, Medicine

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The pathogen I mean is a cultural pandemic, the embrace of doctor-prescribed suicide and of administered homicide. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 5, 2020

Categories
Medicine
Tagged
, __edited, Alzheimer’s disease, autism, Belgium, death, depression, doctors, euthanasia, killing, protective guidelines, Time Magazine}

Doctors Who Euthanized Autistic Woman Found Not Guilty

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 5, 2020

Medicine

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Do you now see that protective guidelines and so-called restrictions, which advocates solemnly promise will protect against abuse, are mere useless veneer? Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
January 11, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __edited, assisted suicide, Belgium, Canada, disabled, euthanasia, MAiD, mentally ill, Netherlands, Ontario, organ donation, patients}

In Canada, Euthanasia as “Boon” to Organ Donation

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 11, 2020

Bioethics, Medicine

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Someday, Canada will probably dispense with the euthanasia part altogether and go straight to killing by organ harvesting. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 26, 2019

Categories
Medicine
Tagged
, __edited, Belgium, British Columbia, Canada, compassion, depression, euthanasia, Jack Kevorkian, killing, Netherlands, Quebec, self-starvation, suffering, suicide}

Depressed Man Euthanized in Canada

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 26, 2019

Medicine

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I fear many will shrug and say, “The man wanted to die. What else is there to think about?” Read More ›