Tag: Charlie Gard

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 3, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Alfie Evans, authoritarianism, brain, Canada, Charlie Gard, death, doctor, experts, freedom, health-care rationing, hospital, medicine, mind, North America, patients, technocracy, Texas, United Kingdom}

Medical Authoritarianism Continues to Expand

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 3, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine

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We live in a time where individual freedom is under material threat from an emerging technocracy. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
January 9, 2020

Categories
Medicine
Tagged
, __edited, Alfie Evans, baby, bioethicists, Charlie Gard, CNN, Court of Appeals, doctors, experts, futile care, hospital, life support, medicine, parents, Protect TX Fragile Kids, quality of life, Texas, Tinslee Lewis}

Parents — Not Bioethicists — Should Decide about Baby’s Life Support

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 9, 2020

Medicine

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Tinslee Lewis, age 11 months, has a heart defect. The doctors claim the case is hopeless. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 12, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, Alfie Evans, authoritarianism, autonomy, Charlie Gard, doctors, futile care theory, hypocrisy, killing, medicine, Nazism, patients, technocracy, treatment, United Kingdom, utilitarianism}

Bioethicists to the People: “Obey Us!”

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 12, 2018

Bioethics, Medicine

4}

Udo Schuklenk is furious at the public backlash against the forced removal of life support from Alfie Evans in the U.K. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 1, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, Alfie Evans, bioethicists, Charlie Gard, doctors, experts, futile care theory, health care, hospital, illness, judges, life support, medicine, parents, patients, technocracy}

Alfie Evans, a Victim of Technocracy

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 1, 2018

Bioethics, Medicine

4}

This was about raw power. If Alfie had escaped the diktat, there would soon be others demanding their freedom too. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 29, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, Alfie Evans, babies, BBC, Charlie Gard, doctors, futile care, health-care rationing, Italy, life support, medicine, technocracy, United Kingdom, utilitarianism}

Courts Decide It’s Time for Alfie Evans to Die

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 29, 2018

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

We are witnessing a steady and growing imposition of technocracy in medicine, where “experts” define the parameters of care. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 22, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __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

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 22, 2018

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

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

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
July 28, 2017

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, Charlie Gard, culture, doctors, judges, medicine, parental rights, United Kingdom, utilitarianism}

Charlie Gard Has Died

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 28, 2017

Bioethics, Medicine

1}

There will be much more to say about the utilitarian drift of medicine and the increasing loss of patient autonomy. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
July 13, 2017

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, Charlie Gard, doctors, infanticide, mercy killing, murder, New York Times, Nuremberg trials, sanctity of life}

New York Times Offers Infanticide Advocacy

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 13, 2017

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

At Nuremberg, doctors were hanged for killing babies for exactly the reasons (a “healing treatment”) mentioned here. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
July 8, 2017

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, baby, Charlie Gard, hospital, parents}

A New Hearing for Charlie Gard

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 8, 2017

Bioethics, Medicine

2}

It is truly heartening that the life of a dying baby can still move the world. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
July 5, 2017

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, Charlie Gard, futile care, sanctity of life, socialism, United Kingdom, utilitarianism}

Charlie Gard Has Happened Here Too

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 5, 2017

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

Some have commented on the case as if that is a product of the U.K.’s socialized medical system. Read More ›