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“Surgeons as ‘Vultures’”: Medical Journal Pushes Harvesting Kidneys from Dying Patients

When organ-transplant medicine was launched, a wary society was solemnly promised that organs would be taken only from the dead. Read More ›
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Bioethics Intends to Destroy Catholic Healthcare

Meanwhile, to the applause of many bioethicists, the ACLU has mounted repeated lawsuits against Catholic hospitals. Read More ›
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An “Impersonal Universe” and Its Consequences

Physicist Frank Tipler, as I noted earlier today, provocatively personalizes the Singularity, the beginning point or moment from which the universe burst forth. Read More ›
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Photo: Tomb of Charles Darwin, Westminster Abbey, via Wikimedia Commons.

Déjà Vu at National Review

Some guy once wrote that there’s nothing new under the sun. He must have had political conservatives’ pro-Darwin arguments in mind. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Photo by Glenn Carstens-Peters on Unsplash.

Darkness Rising: As It Turns Out, Not All Newborns Have a Right to Life

The culture of death — the dehumanization of the vulnerable and the unwanted — is fast upon us. Read More ›
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Steven Pinker, by Better than Bacon, via Flickr.

Darwinian Theory and Evolutionary Psychology

Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker asserts that infanticide has biological roots. He claims that ancient humans were picky about which babies they would raise to maturity. Read More ›
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Facing Down Eugenicists, Man with Down Syndrome Justifies His Own Life

Imagine feeling the need to justify your existence before a Congressional subcommittee. Read More ›

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