Tag: British Columbia

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
July 25, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Reproductive Science
Tagged
, abortion, assisted suicide, Australia, bioethics, British Columbia, Canada, doctors, euthanasia, Ezekiel Emanuel, health care, health professionals, Hippocratic moral values, Hippocratic Oath, hospice, hospitals, human life, Julian Savulescu, medical conscience, medical school, medical values, medicine, nurses, nursing homes, nursing school, Ontario, patients, transgenderism}

Attacks on Medical Conscience Will Force Doctors to Take Human Life

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 25, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine, Reproductive Science

5}

Destroying conscience will inhibit talented people with particular moral or religious beliefs from entering medical and nursing schools. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
July 11, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, British Columbia, earth, freedom, Genesis, human body, human history, humans, intelligent design, J.R.R. Tolkien, minerals, nature, Periodic Table, rare earth elements, stewardship, Washington State}

Complementary Design: Nature and Gardens

_{Eric Hedin
July 11, 2023

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

6}

Evidence of intelligent design shines forth when we consider how the complementarity of human need and tended earth enhances the well-being of both. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 23, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Academy Award, assisted suicide, auto accident, British Columbia, California, COVID-19, euthanasia, hospice, Italy, Jack Kevorkian, polio, quadriplegia, San Francisco Chronicle, UC Berkeley, United States}

Euthanasia’s Cruel Compassion

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 23, 2022

Bioethics, Medicine

7}

Federico Carboni wanted suicide because he had no autonomy, saying in an interview, “I am like a boat adrift in the ocean.” Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
January 25, 2020

Categories
Ethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __edited, assisted suicide, Big Government, British Columbia, Canada, caring, conscientious objection, Delta Hospice Society, dementia, doctors, euthanasia, freedom of conscience, hospice, killing, MAiD, medical assistance in dying, nursing homes, organ harvesting, patients, Quebec, religious beliefs, socialism, socialized medicine, United States}

Pressuring a Hospice to Kill

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 25, 2020

Ethics, Medicine

8}

Canada is our closest cultural cousin: We had better be careful, or the same thing could happen here. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
December 22, 2019

Categories
Medicine
Tagged
, __edited, authoritarianism, British Columbia, Canada, caring, compassion, Delta Hospice Society, doctor, euthanasia, Globe and Mail, hospice, Ontario, patients, Soylent Green}

Forcing a Hospice to Euthanize in Canada

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 22, 2019

Medicine

3}

Euthanasia is more than just legal in Canada. It has become a government-guaranteed right. 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

4}

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

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 6, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, assisted suicide, British Columbia, dehydration, depression, doctors, euthanasia, homicide, lethal injection, medical treatment, Netherlands, Noa Pothoven, palliative care, Politico, PTSD, self-starvation, Twitter, VSED}

Why VSED Is Indeed Abetted Suicide

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 6, 2019

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

On June 4, news outlets around the world reported that Dutch doctors euthanized a 17-year-old rape victim who suffered from severe PTSD, depression, and anorexia. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 17, 2018

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, automobiles, British Columbia, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Charles Darwin, conversation, Darwin's Doubt, evolution, fossils, Great Minds with Michael Medved, intelligent design, interview, Louis Agassiz, Michael Medved, Neo-Darwinism, nihilism, podcast, reading, Royal Society, Stephen Meyer, writing}

Meyer, Medved on Great Minds — Cambrian Explosion, Burgess Shale, and More

_{David Klinghoffer
May 17, 2018

Intelligent Design

3}

Animal forms come and go, but what links them as “acts of mind” (as Agassiz put it) is a “continuity of ideas,” not, says Meyer, the physical continuity that Darwin asserted. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 27, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, British Columbia, Canada, dehydration, diabetes, doctor, elderly, euthanasia, insulin, MAiD, medical assistance in dying, mentally ill, Oregon, patients, starvation, voluntary stop eating and drinking, VSED}

Qualifying for Euthanasia by Self-Starvation in Canada

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 27, 2018

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

Canada has embraced a positive “right to die.” Here is what happens once that Rubicon is crossed. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 25, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __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

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 25, 2018

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

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