Tag: disability

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 14, 2026

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, assisted suicide, authority, business, chronic pain, despair, disability, doctors, Gallup, love, media, medicine, moral acceptability, opinions, physician-assisted suicide, poll, popular culture, prevention, rescue, respondents, self-termination, spouse, suicide, terminal sickness}

On Morality of Suicide, a Wide Disparity of Opinion; Why?

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 14, 2026

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

Close to a majority, 49 percent, answered that committing suicide with a doctor’s help is morally acceptable, while 45 percent responded that it is not. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 12, 2026

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, abdominal pain, assisted suicide, autopsy, Belgium, bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, Brittany Maynard, Canada, compounding pharmacies, disability, Eileen Mihich, Elizabeth Bruenig, Estonia, euthanasia, Germany, Jack Kevorkian, Jess Kaan, Luxembourg, Marjorie Wantz, mental illness, Netherlands, Oregon, pharmacists, pharmacy, poison, psychiatric disorders, rape, slippery slope, suffering, suicide, suicide prevention, The Atlantic, Veronica Torina, Washington State}

How a Mentally Ill Woman Wrote Herself a Lethal Prescription

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 12, 2026

Bioethics, Medicine

7}

A troubling look at how systemic gaps enabled a vulnerable woman to obtain lethal drugs unchecked. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 26, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, abortion, anti-racism, assisted suicide, bioethicists, disability, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), embryonic stem cells, equity, experts, Gaza, gender, health, human cloning, lawyers, medical conscience, philosophers, pro-life, race, Roman Catholic, Second Amendment, sexuality, technocracy, woke ideology}

Bioethicists Want to Rule the World!

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 26, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine

4}

It seems to me that the best approach to the policy opinions of mainstream bioethicists is to consider the source, shrug, and carry on. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 29, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, abandonment, Canada, compassion, disability, doctors, euthanasia, health care, housing, MAiD, medical assistance in dying, medicine, nurse practitioners, Ontario, PTSD, quadriplegia, veterans}

Canadian Disabled Woman Opts for Euthanasia Because She Can’t Get Timely Assistance

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 29, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

I am hearing about this kind of abandonment much more often since Canada loosened its euthanasia eligibility requirements. 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

2}

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
Bethel McGrew

Date
July 5, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, abortion, babies, disability, Down syndrome, England, London, Scotland, Wales}

Heidi’s Story: Down Syndrome Goes to Court

_{Bethel McGrew
July 5, 2021

Bioethics

6}

She wants to change the law. Specifically, the law that says people like her can be aborted up to birth. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
July 30, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __cedited, babies, Belgium, Canada, children, disability, euthanasia, infanticide, medical treatment, Netherlands, pets, terminal illness}

Remember When Euthanasia Was About “Choice” for Adults?

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 30, 2018

Bioethics, Medicine

2}

If killing is a “medical treatment,” how can it be denied to anyone based on age or competency? Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
July 26, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __cedited, Canada, compassion, culture, death, disability, doctors, Justin Trudeau, murder, trial}

Murderer Seeks Clemency with Inventive “Right to Die” Argument

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 26, 2018

Bioethics, Ethics, Medicine

3}

In 1993, while most of his family was away at church, Robert Latimer took his 12-year-old daughter Tracy, disabled by cerebral palsy, out to the barn. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 21, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __cedited, assisted suicide, Canada, China, coercion, disability, euthanasia, lawyer, Medicaid, Oregon, Toronto}

Canadian Disabled Man Is Denied Care but Offered Euthanasia

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 21, 2018

Bioethics, Medicine

2}

Will euthanasia be about money? Of course it will. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 18, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Evolutionary Psychology
Tagged
, __cedited, __image, asymmetry, Darwinism, disability, Human Zoos, John West, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Richard Weikart, science fiction}

Facial Symmetry, and Soulless Darwinism

_{David Klinghoffer
January 18, 2018

Bioethics, Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology

7}

Rude remarks and hurt feelings at a holiday party may seem a trivial matter. Yet this vignette is very telling. Read More ›