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Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 3, 2023

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Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Alfie Evans, authoritarianism, brain, Canada, Charlie Gard, death, doctor, experts, freedom, hospital, medicine, mind, North America, patients, technocracy, Texas, United Kingdom}

Medical Authoritarianism Continues to Expand

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 3, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine

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We live in a time where individual freedom is under material threat from an emerging technocracy. 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

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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
April 23, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Science Reporting
Tagged
, abandonment, assisted suicide, Belgium, Canada, Canadians, doctors, euthanasia, Hippocratic Oath, lethal injection, mental illness, Netherlands, New York Times, patients, policymakers, prescription, psychiatry, suicide, United States}

NYT Pushes Suicide for the Mentally Ill

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 23, 2023

Bioethics, Science Reporting

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Clancy Martin’s first paragraph makes clear why his thesis should be rejected out of hand. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 24, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Science
Tagged
, assisted suicide, barbiturates, COVID-19, death, Death with Dignity, doctors, euthanasia, lethal injection, nurse practitioners, pandemic, patients, suicide, telemedicine, terminal illness}

Death Activists Oppose Limits on Virtual Access to Assisted Suicide

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 24, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine, Science

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What activists really seek is assisted suicide (and eventually, lethal-injection euthanasia) without meaningful restrictions. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 12, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, abortion, baby, doctors, embryo, embryology, fetus, mucus, New York Times, patients, photographs, pregnancy, uterus, women}

The “Pregnancy Tissue” Euphemism

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 12, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine

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The last thing that abortion-rights activists want is an accurate description of what a pregnancy termination destroys. 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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Date
September 17, 2022

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Bioethics
Medicine
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, Europe, gender affirmation, gender dysphoria, information, medicine, mental health, Michael Egnor, National Health Service, patients, penis, Seattle, surgery, teenagers, testicles, United States, University of Washington}

Egnor: Why More Sex Change Medicine for Teens in U.S. than Europe?

_{Science & Culture
September 17, 2022

Bioethics, Medicine

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One factor in the difference between the United States and Europe may be less accurate information in the United States. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 25, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Canada, compassion, crime, Daily Mail, death, dignity, euthanasia, killing, MAiD, organ harvesting, organs, patients, PTSD, punishment, Spain, suffering, veterans}

Two Tales from the Euthanasia Dystopia

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 25, 2022

Bioethics, Medicine

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In Spain, a criminal who shot four people and was, in turn, shot in the spine by police and paralyzed, was granted death by euthanasia. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
August 12, 2022

Categories
Ethics
Medicine
Science
Tagged
, abortion, American Medical Association, autonomy, Dobbs v. Jackson, doctor, execution, health care, homicide, killing, law, medicine, mother, patients}

Why Abortion Is Not Health Care

_{Michael Egnor
August 12, 2022

Ethics, Medicine, Science

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Consider that abortion is a procedure in which death is the outcome that defines success. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 12, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, advance directive, Belgium, Canada, culture, dementia, disability, disease, doctors, euthanasia, illness, killing, Netherlands, nurse practitioner, patients}

Canadian Bill to Allow Euthanasia of Dementia Patients

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 12, 2022

Bioethics, Medicine

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If the patient resists, the killing is not supposed to take place. Right. As though the person would know what was happening. Read More ›