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Netherlands Already Allows Infanticide, So Why Not Canada?

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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Photo: Suicide of Lucretia, by Philippe Bertrand, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Life Devalued: Suicide and Infanticide in Classical Antiquity

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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Image of God: Are Children Persons? 

Today we take it for granted that children are special beings who require special care and attention. But it was not always so.  Read More ›
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Peter Singer Compares Abortion to Turning Off a Computer

Singer first claims that should an AI ever become “sentient,” turning it off would be akin to killing a being with the highest moral value. Read More ›
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Depravity: California Bill to Permit Infant Death by Neglect

Okay. Let’s be careful. Perhaps that wording just applies to preborn babies or the right not to get pregnant at all. Read More ›
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Bioethicist Asks, “Does Birth Matter?” Answers, “No”

In our current episode of let’s-allow-baby-killing, an Australian bioethicist named Walter Veit comes to the defense of infanticide. Read More ›
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Webinar with John West: “Darwin’s Three Big Ideas That Impacted Humanity”

Darwinian theory is a more than just an idea about origins. The reasons it arouses the passion it does go beyond science. Read More ›
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Photo: Bust of Margaret Sanger, National Portrait Gallery, by Cliff, via Flickr (cropped).

Don’t Remove Margaret Sanger from History — Condemn Her

A month dedicated to the history of any group should not just be a sanitized feel-good propaganda version of what came before. Read More ›
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Dutch Supreme Court Approves Euthanasia for Dementia

The Reuters story leaves out some details. The doctor had drugged the woman before starting to euthanize her, and instructed the family to hold the struggling patient down. Read More ›
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The Jack Kevorkian Plague

The pathogen I mean is a cultural pandemic, the embrace of doctor-prescribed suicide and of administered homicide. Read More ›

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