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Here It Comes: First Transgenderism, Next Transableism

Why is it not also appropriate to cut off unwanted arms or snip spinal cords if that brings emotional relief? Read More ›
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Netherlands Already Allows Infanticide, So Why Not Canada?

In a more righteous world, allowing infanticide would make the Netherlands a pariah nation, but we have become morally stunted in the West. Read More ›
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Medical Association Goes “Neutral” on Killing Patients

Doctors should lead on crucial moral and issues such as this, not be merely flotsam and jetsam. Read More ›
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Pre-Order Immortality Now! (It’s Only 8 Years Away, Apparently)

Would living forever in a utopian technological society really be as great as the transhumanists insist?  Read More ›
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Harvesting Clones to Live Forever Would Be Monstrous

Of course, Zhavoronkov’s lab is in China — the land where medical and other ethics might go to die. Read More ›
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Suicide Tourism Comes to Oregon

Some jurisdictions are getting there faster and some slower. But that tide only flows in one direction. Read More ›
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Animals Tune Behavior by  Lunar Cycle; but How?

Researchers in Austria think they have found a clue: a cryptochrome protein that appears to respond to the lunar cycle. Read More ›
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Bioethics: In Canada, Medically Assisted Death Is a Solution for Poverty

In the U.S., too, many assisted suicides are facilitated by doctors who have not treated the patient. Read More ›
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The Human Fossil Record Lacks Intermediaries

The news media might be heavily biased toward evolution, but at least it is predictable. Read More ›
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Two Tales from the Euthanasia Dystopia

In Spain, a criminal who shot four people and was, in turn, shot in the spine by police and paralyzed, was granted death by euthanasia. Read More ›

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