Tag: euthanasia | Page 2 | Science and Culture Today

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 27, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, adults, assisted suicide, bioethics, Canada, Daily Mail, disabled, euthanasia, Groningen protocol, infanticide, infants, killing, Netherlands, Peter Singer, The New England Journal of Medicine}

Netherlands Already Allows Infanticide, So Why Not Canada?

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 27, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

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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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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 16, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Medicine
Tagged
, Andrew Coyne, Canada, children, culture, death, doctors, euthanasia, faith, garden, life, Ontario, patients, suicide, suicide prevention, The Atlantic}

The Horrors of Canadian Euthanasia

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August 16, 2025

Bioethics, Faith & Science, Medicine

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As journalist Andrew Coyne said, “A society that believes in nothing can offer no argument even against death.” Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
July 25, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Reproductive Science
Tagged
, abortion, assisted suicide, Australia, bioethics, British Columbia, Canada, doctors, euthanasia, Ezekiel Emanuel, health care, Hippocratic Oath, hospice, hospitals, human life, Julian Savulescu, medical conscience, medical school, medicine, nurses, nursing homes, Ontario, patients, transgenderism}

Attacks on Medical Conscience Will Force Doctors to Take Human Life

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 25, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine, Reproductive Science

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Destroying conscience will inhibit talented people with particular moral or religious beliefs from entering medical and nursing schools. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 26, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Science Reporting
Tagged
, abortion, advance directive, Arthur Caplan, assisted suicide, culture of death, dehydration, disability rights, euthanasia, fluids, food, gender-affirming care, Humanize, Michael Schiavo, parents, pro-life movement, Roe v. Wade, self-starvation and dehydration, Terri Schiavo, vaccine mandates, water}

Schiavo Case Was a Terrible Cultural Tipping Point

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 26, 2025

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind, Science Reporting

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The case elevated the culture of death into a conflagration. It boosted the passage of assisted suicide laws. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
October 1, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, assisted suicide, Belgium, Canada, death, doctors, euthanasia, hospitals, kidneys, medicine, Netherlands, Newsweek, organ donation, organ harvesting, organs, suicide}

Medical Journal Has a Ghoulish Proposal: Conjoining Euthanasia with Organ Harvesting

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 1, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine

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This much is clear: We are far down the road of objectifying the bodies of suicidal people to permit unethical acts. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
September 30, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, assisted suicide, Eric Anderson, euthanasia, hospice, Howard Glicksman, ID the Future, palliative care, physician-assisted suicide, physicians, podcasts, Richard Weikart, Unnatural Death}

A Physician’s Sacred Duty — To Care or to Kill?

_{Andrew McDiarmid
September 30, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine

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As a hospice and palliative care physician for over twenty years, Dr. Howard Glicksman regularly cares for terminally ill patients. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 10, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Anthony Fauci, euthanasia, experts, freedom, gender-affirming care, government, mastectomies, medical establishment, Nature (journal), organ harvesting, puberty blockers, public health, Racism, Science (journal), technocracy, The Lancet, The New England Journal of Medicine, United Nations, vaccine mandates, WHO}

For Your Own Good: The Looming Health Authoritarianism

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 10, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine

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If you want to see what is going to go wrong with society next, read the professional journals. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
September 9, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Philosophy
Tagged
, animals, assisted suicide, Charles Darwin, dementia, euthanasia, future, human life, infants, persons, Peter Singer, rationality, right to life, The Death of Humanity, worldview}

The Contradiction in Peter Singer’s Worldview

_{Richard Weikart
September 9, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine, Philosophy

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He never provides any reason why rationality, self-consciousness, and the ability to plan the future have any value. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 6, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Medicine
Tagged
, assisted suicide, Australia, children, death, doctors, euthanasia, Germany, killing, medical futility, medicine, Philip Nitschke, suicide, Thaddeus Mason Pope}

Here Comes “Non-Medical” Assisted Suicide

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 6, 2024

Bioethics, Ethics, Medicine

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Certain strains of the euthanasia-advocacy movement believe doctors don’t need to be involved when someone wants to die. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
August 26, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, agnostics, atheism, disabilities, Ernst Haeckel, eugenics, euthanasia, evolution, Francis Galton, Germany, illnesses, Judeo-Christian tradition, punishment, World War I}

Darwinian Death: Euthanasia Meets Eugenics

_{Richard Weikart
August 26, 2024

Bioethics, Evolution

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One powerful influence on the early euthanasia movement was eugenics ideology, which emerged first in the 1860s under the leadership of Francis Galton. Read More ›