family 2 Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date February 14, 2020 CategoriesBioethicsMedicine Tagged , __edited, adults, bioethicists, children, doctors, family, gender, gender affirmation, Journal of Medical Ethics, mastectomy, medical interventions, medicine, moral panic, parental consent, parental rights, parenting, puberty, tattooing For Bioethicists, This Is “Neglectful” Parenting Wesley J. Smith February 14, 2020 Bioethics, Medicine 4 Consider: Children — no matter how “mature” — cannot buy cigarettes or give consent to being tattooed. Read More ›
Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date April 14, 2018 CategoriesBioethicsMedicine Tagged , __k-review, abortion, Alfie Evans, assisted suicide, authoritarianism, Daily Mail, futile care theory, medicine, Michigan, parental rights, parents, police, Rome, Terri Shiavo, United Kingdom This Is What Medical Authoritarianism Looks Like Wesley J. Smith April 14, 2018 Bioethics, Medicine 4 The Alfie Evans saga continues to roil the U.K., and it is increasingly looking like the Terri Schiavo case. Read More ›
Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date July 28, 2017 CategoriesBioethicsMedicine Tagged , __k-review, Charlie Gard, culture, doctors, judges, medicine, parental rights, United Kingdom, utilitarianism Charlie Gard Has Died Wesley J. Smith July 28, 2017 Bioethics, Medicine 1 There will be much more to say about the utilitarian drift of medicine and the increasing loss of patient autonomy. Read More ›
