Tag: mental illness

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
October 12, 2026

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, advance directive, advance request, Belgium, bioethics, Canada, caregivers, crime, dementia, doctors, euthanasia, Global News, health care, killing, medical assistance in dying, mental illness, Netherlands, patients, suicide by self-starvation, termination}

In Canada, New Push for Euthanasia for People with Dementia

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 12, 2026

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

Some are celebrating Canada’s government “indefinitely suspending” legalizing euthanasia for mental illness as a great victory for life. Not me. Read More ›

Close up of young parents holding and kissing their newborn baby indoors at home

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 8, 2026

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abortion, adults, babies, brain hemispheres, brain tissue, brainstem, complexity, concepts, consciousness, dementia, Denyse O’Leary, desires, diencephalon, emotions, fetuses, human sacrifice, humanity, hydranencephaly, Lindsay Clancy, Mayans, memories, mental illness, mentally handicapped people, Michael Egnor, mothers, neurosurgeons, New York Times, newborns, parents, perceptions, sulfur, The Immortal Mind, ultrasound, unborn children, unwanted children}

NY Times Aside, “Babies Are Obviously Conscious,” Says Dr. Egnor

_{David Klinghoffer
October 8, 2026

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

3}

If there an “active scientific debate” about it, then could it really be that the answer isn’t so clear? Read More ›

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Author
Terrell Clemmons

Date
May 11, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, A Manual for Creating Atheists, addiction treatment, atheism, cinematography, clinicians, criminology, designing intelligence, epidemiology, evidence, faith, interventions, Judeo-Christian tradition, materialism, materialistic paradigm, mental illness, Michael Shermer, Peter Boghossian, philosophy, Portland State University, Socratic inquiry, Street Epistemology, TechSpective, The Story of Everything, theaters, Timothy McGrew, Tony Bradley, treatments, virus}

Science Liberated from Dogma: Story of Everything Offers a Journey for Creating Freethinkers

_{Terrell Clemmons
May 11, 2026

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

5}

A 2013 book is a training manual for talking people who profess a religious faith, mostly Christian students on college campuses, out of their faith. Read More ›

White medical pills or tablets with bottle on black background. Macro side view with copy space

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 12, 2026

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, abdominal pain, assisted suicide, autopsy, Belgium, bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, Brittany Maynard, Canada, compounding pharmacies, disability, Eileen Mihich, Elizabeth Bruenig, Estonia, euthanasia, Germany, Jack Kevorkian, Jess Kaan, Luxembourg, Marjorie Wantz, mental illness, Netherlands, Oregon, pharmacists, pharmacy, poison, psychiatric disorders, rape, slippery slope, suffering, suicide, suicide prevention, The Atlantic, Veronica Torina, Washington State}

How a Mentally Ill Woman Wrote Herself a Lethal Prescription

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 12, 2026

Bioethics, Medicine

7}

A troubling look at how systemic gaps enabled a vulnerable woman to obtain lethal drugs unchecked. Read More ›

Operation room surgery in hospital, blurred figures. Professional treatment and professional conduct concept.

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
January 7, 2026

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Donation after Circulatory Death, euthanasia, lethal injection, lethal overdose, mental illness, Neonatal Resuscitation Program, Netherlands, Ontario, organ harvesting, organs, statistics, suicidal people, suicide, terminal illness, Thaddeus Mason Pope}

Bringing a Moral Horror to America: The Assisted-Suicide Movement Wants It

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 7, 2026

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

Conjoining organ harvesting with assisted suicide or euthanasia gives society a “stake” in sick people being made dead. Read More ›

Drunk homeless man covered his face with his hands and sits on the stairs in the underpass, black and white photo.

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
November 12, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Executive Order, feces, harm reduction, HIV, human dignity, medicine, mental illness, overdose, personal autonomy, San Francisco, The New England Journal of Medicine, Trump Administration}

“Harm Reduction” Harms the Homeless

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 12, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

5}

San Francisco was allowing harm reducers to give away “starter kits” to people so they could begin injecting drugs! Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 14, 2025

Categories
Ethics
Medicine
Tagged
, apology, dignity, emotion, ethics, Fox News, homeless, hospitalization, human beings, lethal injection, media, mental illness, murder, News, North Carolina, TikTok}

Did Brian Kilmeade Actually Say That?

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 14, 2025

Ethics, Medicine

2}

We have to always remember that people who are homeless have equal intrinsic dignity as all other human beings. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 8, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, assisted suicide, bureaucrats, Canada, chemistry, Chronicles Magazine, culture, Darwinian materialism, death, Denyse O’Leary, epiphenomena, free will, human beings, John Zmirak, love, mental illness, Michael Egnor, mind, neurons, neuroscience, physics, soul, The Immortal Mind, United States, veterans}

Darwinism’s “Simplest” and “Most Destructive Implication”

_{David Klinghoffer
September 8, 2025

Bioethics, Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

2}

Imagine that: killing as a “cost-saving strategy.” I think of Canada more and more as the haunted twin of the United States, and a warning to us. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 5, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, arms, body parts, culture, Daily Mail, Due Process Clause, legs, medicine, mental illness, personal autonomy, spinal cord, transgender}

Here It Comes: First Transgenderism, Next Transableism

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 5, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

4}

Why is it not also appropriate to cut off unwanted arms or snip spinal cords if that brings emotional relief? Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 27, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Science Reporting
Tagged
, American Medical Association, Arthur Caplan, Eric Weinstein, John Horgan, Lawrence Krauss, mastectomies, media, mental illness, New York University, News, Piers Morgan Uncensored, Robert Sapolsky, Royal Society, Sabine Hossenfelder, science communicators, Sean Carroll, The Daily Wire, The End of Science, transgenderism, trust}

Science Struggles with Reality as Crises Rock Disciplines

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 27, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine, Science Reporting

7}

There seems to be little relationship between many science writers’ current concerns and the reasons that public trust in science has been steadily declining. Read More ›