Tag: illnesses

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
November 4, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Tagged
, Andrew Coyne, assassins, assisted suicide, California, Canada, Donald Trump, euphemisms, Hippocrates, Illinois, Illinois Legislature, illnesses, jurisdictions, medical assistance in dying, New York State, Oregon, Ryan Routh, Vermont, Woody Allen}

United States Is Becoming a Suicide Nation

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 4, 2025

Bioethics, Ethics

2}

We are well on the way now to becoming more like Canada, where we have seen how the euthanasia virus leads to terrible abuses. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 13, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Science Reporting
Tagged
, animal experiments, animals, chimpanzees, Edward Taub, elephants, First Amendment, human suffering, illnesses, Ingrid Newkirk, journalists, National Institutes of Health, Nonhuman Rights Project, persons, PETA, Silver Spring Monkey Case, Society for Neuroscience, writ of habeas corpus}

PETA Sues NIH for Violating Its “First Amendment Right” to Talk to Monkeys

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 13, 2025

Bioethics, Science Reporting

4}

There is not one modern medical treatment or intervention that does not involve animal research at some point in the process. 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, Ian Dowbiggin, illnesses, Judeo-Christian tradition, punishment, World War I}

Darwinian Death: Euthanasia Meets Eugenics

_{Richard Weikart
August 26, 2024

Bioethics, Evolution

11}

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 ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 5, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, assisted dying, assisted suicide, dementia, disabilities, duty to die, economics, euthanasia, illnesses, immigration, logic, morality, old age, policy}

Normalizing Assisted Suicide Will Lead to a Duty to Die

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 5, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

Come on, Granny! Time to swallow the pills. We need your money to send Junior to college. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
November 14, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, Canada, children, disabilities, euthanasia, fear, homicide, hospital, illnesses, lethal injection, MAiD, medical assistance in dying, nurse practitioners, Ontario, pain, palliative care, patients, physicians, self-starvation, suffering}

Eliminating the Sufferer: In Canada, Hospital Waiting Room Promotes Euthanasia

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 14, 2018

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

Euthanasia corrupts everything it touches. That includes the healthcare system and a society’s perception of the value of people with serious disabilities and illnesses. Read More ›