Tag: medical ethics

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 ›

Depressed woman sitting on floor covering face with hands in despair

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 15, 2026

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, adolescents, detransitioners, Finland, gender, gender reassignment, hormones, ideologues, lawmakers, malpractice, mastectomies, medical ethics, mental health, Paediatrica, patients, psychiatric morbidity, psychiatric treatment, puberty blockers, young adults}

Study Finds Gender Reassignment Harmed Mental Health of Adolescents

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 15, 2026

Bioethics, Medicine

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Hopefully, this study will aid the many lawsuits being filed by childhood victims (detransitioners). Read More ›

Lonely Poor Boy Facing Backward Against Black

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Author
Terrell Clemmons

Date
March 19, 2026

Categories
Ethics
Medicine
Philosophy
Tagged
, after-birth abortion, authoritarianism, bathrooms, Christian apologetics, Creed & Culture, experts, family, government, happiness, J. Budziszewski, lunacy, medical ethics, neutrality, pandemic, Pandemic of Lunacy, partisanship, philosophy, Politics, religion, sanity, sexuality, study groups, tampons, University of Texas, virtue}

Why Are We Going Crazy? New Book Has a Diagnosis

_{Terrell Clemmons
March 19, 2026

Ethics, Medicine, Philosophy

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“So-called neutrality is really bad-faith authoritarianism. Whatever view succeeds in passing itself off as neutral wins without making a case for itself.” Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
October 14, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Medicine
Tagged
, bioethics, Canada, Charles Camosy, consensus, doctors, George W. Bush, human life, Journal of Medical Ethics, lawyers, Leon Kass, medical ethics, Ontario, orthodoxy, Paul Ramsey, philosophers, President’s Council on Bioethics, professors, public health, public policy, tradition}

Contrary to Claims, Bioethics Is Not a “Moral Tradition”

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 14, 2025

Bioethics, Ethics, Medicine

5}

Talk about a “heads we win, tails you lose” consensus that can drive Hippocratic physicians out of the profession. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 13, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Environment & Climate
Evolution
Tagged
, biodiversity, bioethicists, bioethics, climate change, flooding, health, health care, hospitals, hubris, human exceptionalism, humans, medical ethics, war, wildfires}

Only Bioethicists Can Save the Planet!

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 13, 2025

Bioethics, Environment & Climate, Evolution

3}

Apparently, anyone with any claim to victimization or marginalization can be a bioethicist now. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
July 19, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, assisted suicide, California, Canada, death, doctors, dying, MAiD, medical ethics, oncology, patients}

MDs Support Expanding Assisted Suicide Beyond the Terminally Ill

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 19, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

The myth that legal assisted suicide is about terminal illness is becoming harder to swallow. Evidence can be found in a recent survey. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 23, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Medicine
Tagged
, gender affirmation, health, malpractice, medical ethics, medical school, medicine, neurosurgery, patients, public education, surgeons, surgery, The Federalist}

Dr. Michael Egnor: “Operating on Healthy Bodies Defies Surgical Ethics”

_{David Klinghoffer
September 23, 2022

Bioethics, Ethics, Medicine

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"A well-performed operation is still malpractice (or even assault) if it is not done for valid medical reasons." Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 26, 2020

Categories
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, Aryans, creationists, editors, Evolution News, Free Science, Humanize, intelligent design, Jews, Journal of Theoretical Biology, journals, medical ethics, Nature (journal), Nazi Germany, Richard Sternberg, Science (journal), scientific debate, scientific method, Stephen Meyer, The New England Journal of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Wesley Smith}

Ethicist Protests Politicized Science — Alas, That Horse Left the Barn Long Ago

_{David Klinghoffer
October 26, 2020

Scientific Freedom

4}

It is all about the costs of getting on the wrong side of the power structure. To say that this “chills” debate about scientific issues is an understatement. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 13, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __cedited, bioengineering, bioethics, genetic engineering, human life, medical ethics, public policy}

Here Comes “Blade Runner World”!

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 13, 2019

Bioethics, Medicine

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It is startling to realize that the movie 'Blade Runner' takes place in 2019. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
July 25, 2017

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, doctors, elderly, euthanasia, homicide, Huffington Post, killing, medical ethics, mental illness, Netherlands, Wall Street Journal}

Euthanasia Apologists Conceal the Truth About What They Advocate

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 25, 2017

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

It is homicide: no different in outcome — i.e., killing — from if the doctor shot the patient in the head. Read More ›