Tag: Ontario

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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, moral tradition, Ontario, orthodoxy, patient choice, Paul Ramsey, philosophers, President’s Council on Bioethics, professors, progressive politics, public health, public policy, The Emerging Tradition of Secular Bioethics, 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 16, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Medicine
Tagged
, Andrew Coyne, Auld Lang Syne, Be Ceremonial, Canada, Catholic priests, children, culture, death, Disrupting Death, doctors, Elaina Plott Calabro, euthanasia, faith, funeral home, garden, homicides, life, Ontario, pajama party, patients, suicide, suicide prevention, suicides, The Atlantic}

The Horrors of Canadian Euthanasia

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 16, 2025

Bioethics, Faith & Science, Medicine

2}

As journalist Andrew Coyne said, “A society that believes in nothing can offer no argument even against death.” Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
July 25, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Reproductive Science
Tagged
, abortion, assisted suicide, Australia, bioethics, British Columbia, Canada, doctors, euthanasia, Ezekiel Emanuel, health care, health professionals, Hippocratic moral values, Hippocratic Oath, hospice, hospitals, human life, Julian Savulescu, medical conscience, medical school, medical values, medicine, nurses, nursing homes, nursing school, Ontario, patients, transgenderism}

Attacks on Medical Conscience Will Force Doctors to Take Human Life

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 25, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine, Reproductive Science

5}

Destroying conscience will inhibit talented people with particular moral or religious beliefs from entering medical and nursing schools. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
April 8, 2024

Categories
Biology
Ethics
Mathematics
Science Education
Tagged
, 1984 (novel), Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, Alvin Plantinga, Aristotle, baseball, brainwashing, Brooklyn College, cancel culture, China, colors, constructivism, deconstruction, doors, Euclid, freedom, Friedrich Nietzsche, gender, George Orwell, John Archibald Wheeler, Joseph Stalin, knowledge, Live Not By Lies, Michel Foucault, Ontario, philosophers, Pythagoras, Queer Theory, queering, relativism, Richard Rorty, sex, teachers, transgenderism, truth, Twitter, University of Chicago, University of Haifa}

The War on 2 + 2 = 4

_{William A. Dembski
April 8, 2024

Biology, Ethics, Mathematics, Science Education

23}

The people weighing in against 2 + 2 = 4 are not mathematicians but in education departments where they teach the teaching of mathematics. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
March 14, 2024

Categories
Life Sciences
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, armadillos, asteroid, Canada, cave bears, civilization, humans, Myth of the Dark Ages, New Scientist, nuclear weapons, Ontario, sloths, University of Alberta, University of Maryland}

What’s in a Name? Debating the Anthropocene Epoch

_{Denyse O’Leary
March 14, 2024

Life Sciences, Physical Sciences

5}

Earlier this month, geologists voted down a proposal to give the years since 1950 a geological name, the Anthropocene Epoch. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 29, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, abandonment, Canada, compassion, disability, doctors, euthanasia, health care, housing, MAiD, medical assistance in dying, medicine, nurse practitioners, Ontario, PTSD, quadriplegia, veterans}

Canadian Disabled Woman Opts for Euthanasia Because She Can’t Get Timely Assistance

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 29, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

I am hearing about this kind of abandonment much more often since Canada loosened its euthanasia eligibility requirements. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 21, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Medicine
Tagged
, assisted dying, Canada, Daily Mail, doctors, Hippocratic Oath, medicine, neutrality, Ontario, patients, suicide, United Kingdom, United States, well-being}

Medical Association Goes “Neutral” on Killing Patients

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 21, 2023

Bioethics, Ethics, Medicine

3}

Doctors should lead on crucial moral and issues such as this, not be merely flotsam and jetsam. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 7, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Botany
Ethics
Human Exceptionalism
Life Sciences
Tagged
, abortion, animal rights, animal welfare, Belgium, birth, California, Canada, doctors, Finland, France, gender dysphoria, gender-affirming care, geographical features, glaciers, Holocaust, human life, insects, Jews, Journal of Medical Ethics, mastectomies, Netherlands, Ontario, Oregon, organ donation, peas, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, rivers, Sweden, unborn children, United Kingdom}

The Fear of Suffering Is Driving Us Crazy

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 7, 2023

Bioethics, Botany, Ethics, Human Exceptionalism, Life Sciences

6}

Our suffering phobia has triggered a harmful societal neurosis that has both subverted human exceptionalism and undermined societal common sense. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 3, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Canada, conscience rights, COVID-19, culture, dementia, effective referral, euthanasia, lockdown, loneliness, mental illness, Ontario, organ harvesting, suicide prevention, United States}

10,000+ Canadian Euthanasia Killings in 2021

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 3, 2022

Bioethics, Ethics, Medicine

3}

The statistics are startling and illustrate that once euthanasia consciousness infects a culture, it grows like a fungus. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
January 11, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __edited, assisted suicide, Belgium, bodies, Canada, disabled, euthanasia, MAiD, mentally ill, Netherlands, Ontario, organ donation, patients}

In Canada, Euthanasia as “Boon” to Organ Donation

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 11, 2020

Bioethics, Medicine

4}

Someday, Canada will probably dispense with the euthanasia part altogether and go straight to killing by organ harvesting. Read More ›