Tag: disability

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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, gobbledygook, Hastings Center Report, health, human cloning, lawyers, medical conscience, philosophers, pro-life, progressive ideology, 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
Elizabeth Whately

Date
July 5, 2021

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

Heidi’s Story: Down Syndrome Goes to Court

_{Elizabeth Whately
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
, __k-review, age, babies, Belgium, Canada, children, disability, euthanasia, infanticide, medical treatment, minors, 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
, __k-review, Canada, cerebral palsy, compassion, culture, death, disability, doctors, Justin Trudeau, murder, Robert Latimer, trial, Tylenol}

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
, __k-review, 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
, __k-review, asymmetry, Darwinism, disability, Human Zoos, IQ, 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 ›