Tag: Hippocratic Oath

Doctor carrying a cooler box for organ transport doctor ensures swift and safe organ transport using specialized cooler box, optimizing life-saving medical procedures

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
July 17, 2026

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, assisted suicide, Australia, Belgium, bioethics, brain cancer, Canada, cause of death, coma, dead donor rule, euthanasia, Hippocratic Oath, homicide, medical ethics, mentally ill, natural resources, Netherlands, New Zealand, npr, organ donation, organ-harvesting, patients, recontextualization, Robert D. Truog, Spain, suffering, The New England Journal of Medicine}

Ghoulish Proposal: Killing for Organs Gets a Prestige Endorsement

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 17, 2026

Bioethics, Medicine

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Transforming sick and disabled people into a killable caste objectifies them as potential natural resources to be mined or harvested. 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
Richard Weikart

Date
August 19, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Aristotle, Australia, Christianity, disabilities, happiness, Hebrews, Hippocratic Oath, human life, infanticide, Jews, Judeo-Christian tradition, physicians, Plato, poison, Pythagoras, Socrates, Stoics, The Republic}

Life Devalued: Suicide and Infanticide in Classical Antiquity

_{Richard Weikart
August 19, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine

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Nick Vujicic’s story would probably have turned out quite differently if he had been born in ancient Greece or Rome. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 21, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Medicine
Tagged
, assisted dying, Canada, Daily Mail, doctors, Hippocratic Oath, medicine, neutrality, Ontario, patients, suicide, United Kingdom, United States, well-being}

Medical Association Goes “Neutral” on Killing Patients

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 21, 2023

Bioethics, Ethics, Medicine

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Doctors should lead on crucial moral and issues such as this, not be merely flotsam and jetsam. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 23, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Science Reporting
Tagged
, abandonment, assisted suicide, Belgium, Canada, Canadians, doctors, euthanasia, Hippocratic Oath, lethal injection, mental illness, Netherlands, New York Times, patients, policymakers, prescription, psychiatry, suicide, United States}

NYT Pushes Suicide for the Mentally Ill

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 23, 2023

Bioethics, Science Reporting

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Clancy Martin’s first paragraph makes clear why his thesis should be rejected out of hand. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 4, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, attorneys, coronavirus, COVID-19, dementia, elderly people, experts, health care, Hippocratic Oath, Huffington Post, Journal of Medical Ethics, Julian Savulescu, Oxford University, pandemic, physicians, technocracy, Thaddeus Mason Pope}

The Bioethicist Pandemic

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 4, 2020

Bioethics, Medicine

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The increasing outsourcing of health-care policy to medical bureaucrats during the COVID-19 crisis illustrates a dangerous temptation. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 22, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Medicine
Tagged
, __cedited, abortion, adoption, animal personhood, Argentina, doctor, habeas corpus, Hippocratic Oath, human life, medical conscience, orangutan, pregnancy, rape, Sweden, zoo}

In Argentina, Doctor Sentenced to Prison for Refusing to Terminate Pregnancy

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 22, 2020

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Medicine

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I can write those words. I understand their meaning. But I can’t comprehend such an utter rejection of human exceptionalism. Read More ›

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Date
December 4, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, bacteria, bats, behavior, Darwin Devolves, Darwin's Finches, Darwinism, dolphins, echolocation, evolution, Galápagos Islands, Hippocratic Oath, homeostasis, Illustra Media, Immune System, Jerry Coyne, Marcos Eberlin, Michael Behe, Peter and Rosemary Grant, pharynx, Philip Skell, phylogeny, PNAS, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Richard Dawkins, turtles, whales}

No Harm, No Foul — What If Darwinism Were Excised from Biology?

_{Science & Culture
December 4, 2019

Evolution

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Considering several recent papers shows that eliminating evolutionary words and concepts simplifies and improves scientific explanations. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 15, 2019

Categories
Medicine
Tagged
, __edited, ALS, Belgium, Canada, doctor, euthanasia, Globe and Mail, Hippocratic Oath, MAiD, medical aid in dying, mental illness, Netherlands, nurse practitioner, Ontario, pediatricians}

Quebec Court Declares Euthanasia “Foreseeable Death” Limitation Unconstitutional

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 15, 2019

Medicine

4}

A few years ago, the Supreme Court of Canada conjured a positive right in the Canadian Charter (constitution) to euthanasia. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 7, 2019

Categories
Medicine
Tagged
, __edited, abortion, ACLU, churches, Colorado, doctors, Hippocratic Oath, hospitals, medical professionals, patients, physician-assisted suicide, pro-life, religious beliefs, Roman Catholic, sterilization}

Colorado Doctor Fired after Suing Catholic Hospital over Assisted Suicide

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 7, 2019

Medicine

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The ACLU has already sued several Catholic hospitals over the last few years seeking to force them to violate church doctrine. Read More ›