doctor-carrying-a-cooler-box-for-organ-transport-doctor-ensu-772968242-stockpack-adobestock Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date July 17, 2026 CategoriesBioethicsMedicine 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 5 Transforming sick and disabled people into a killable caste objectifies them as potential natural resources to be mined or harvested. Read More ›
organ-harvesting Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date December 8, 2025 CategoriesBioethicsMedicine Tagged , China, crime, Daily Mail, Falun Gong, human organs, kidney, murder, Nigeria, organ-harvesting, political prisoners Purchasers of Black-Market Human Organs Often Complicit in Murder Wesley J. Smith December 8, 2025 Bioethics, Medicine 2 The black market in human organs does not receive nearly enough attention. China is probably the worst offender. Read More ›
organ-harvesting Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date August 5, 2025 CategoriesBioethicsBiologyMedicine Tagged , bioethicists, brain, brain death, cardiac arrest, circulation, comatose, consciousness, equality, health care, heart, human life, intention, medicine, memory, New York Times, organ donors, organ-harvesting, organs, patients, trust Killing for Organs — Who Could Possibly Object? Wesley J. Smith August 5, 2025 Bioethics, Biology, Medicine 4 Three doctors promote the idea of “redefining death” to allow patients to be killed for their organs. Read More ›
fridge-box-for-transporting-human-donor-organs-in-the-volume Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date August 4, 2025 CategoriesBioethicsMedicineNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , bioethics, choking, death, Department of Health and Human Services, doctors, kidney, New York Times, organ-harvesting, overdose, patients Organ-Procurement Goofs Threaten Trust Wesley J. Smith August 4, 2025 Bioethics, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind 5 The “dead donor rule” is the cement that binds the public’s trust in organ transplant medicine. Read More ›