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
January 31, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, authoritarianism, doctors, families, futile care theory, law, medical futility, patients, Virginia}

Medical Coercion Comes to Virginia?

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 31, 2018

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

Futile care theory (as I call it) or medical futility allows doctors to unilaterally refuse wanted life-sustaining treatment based on the physician’s values. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
January 26, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, conscience rights, doctors, faith, human life, medicine, patients, physicians, technocrats}

Medical Establishment Opposes Conscience Rights

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 26, 2018

Bioethics, Ethics, Medicine

2}

The Massachusetts Medical Society wants their pro-life colleagues, and those who believe in the Hippocratic Oath, to be forced to violate religious and moral beliefs. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
January 4, 2018

Categories
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, doctors, Las Vegas, law, medicine, Nevada, opioid epidemic, opioids, pain, prescription, Sudafed}

Sacrificing Pain Patients to Stop Opioid Epidemic?

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 4, 2018

Medicine

3}

I’m all for fighting the opioid epidemic. But not at the price of preventing patients from receiving quality medical care. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 8, 2017

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, aging, assisted suicide, culture of death, doctors, Dutch News, elderly, euthanasia, mentally ill, Netherlands, suicide}

Because There Can Never Be Enough Suicide

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 8, 2017

Bioethics, Medicine

2}

The only way anyone in the Netherlands will care about the resulting deaths is if they test this substance on dogs. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 24, 2017

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __edited, airplane, assisted suicide, doctors, ID the Future, judges, legislators, Michael Egnor, Ray Bohlin}

Michael Egnor: How Assisted Suicide Corrupts Medicine and Medical Doctors

_{David Klinghoffer
August 24, 2017

Bioethics, Medicine

2}

“A doctor killing a patient is analogous to a pilot deliberately crashing a plane.” Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 10, 2017

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, assisted suicide, Canada, diagnosis, doctors, emergency room, euthanasia, New York Times, palliative care, pills}

The Worst MDs Can Become Death Prescribers

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 10, 2017

Bioethics, Medicine

6}

One just needs the terminal diagnosis -- sometimes mistaken -- to qualify for the lethal pills. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
August 9, 2017

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, assisted suicide, depression, doctors, euthanasia, evolution, handicapped, homicide, Jerry Coyne, killing, Netherlands, newborns, psychiatry}

Evolutionary Biologist Now Wants Doctors to Kill Suicidal Depressed People

_{Michael Egnor
August 9, 2017

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

This is not a slippery slope. This is an ice cliff. 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 25, 2017

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, doctors, elderly, euthanasia, homicide, Huffington Post, killing, medical ethics, mental illness, Netherlands, Wall Street Journal}

Euthanasia Apologists Conceal the Truth About What They Advocate

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 25, 2017

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

It is homicide: no different in outcome — i.e., killing — from if the doctor shot the patient in the head. Read More ›