A Belgian MD filled a syringe with heart-stopping poison, and injected the fluid into the arm of a dying child who had asked to die,…
https://www.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism/child-euthanized-belgium/
This is the last post on Human Exceptionalism. No, I am not taking my football and going home. Nor have I been given the boot….
https://www.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism/goodbye-he-hello-corner/
Once a society accepts the premise that killing is an acceptable answer to suffering, there is seemingly no upper limit to which that principle will…
https://www.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism/canadian-bar-association-wants-more-euthanasia/
The NIH is considering funding research that will inject human stem cells into animal embryos, thereby creating human/animal chimeras. We have to be careful how we…
Apparently clones of the same dead sheep from which Dolly was manufactured are in good health and aging normally. From the LiveScience story: Four cloned sheep that…
https://www.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism/dolly-clones-paving-way-human-cloning/
I have been asked what I think the US election means to bioethics. A lot and not much. Here’s how I put it in an…
https://www.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism/trump-hillary-and-bioethics/
Assisted suicide isn’t the same as palliative care. The latter about easing symptoms and alleviating pain. The former about intentionally ending life. But the culture of…
Waiting periods for reflection are supposed to be a “safeguard” against abuse in euthanasia and assisted suicide. That has been exposed as mere veneer as…
https://www.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism/quebec-cant-kill-them-soon-enough/
“Futile care” is ad hoc health care rationing. It permits a doctor to refuse wanted life-sustaining treatment that is working, based on the values of…
https://www.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism/ama-playing-hide-ethical-ball-futile-care-rule/
I have been so caught up in the continuing dissipation of medical ethics and the euthanasia juggernaut in Canada, I haven’t had the time to…
https://www.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism/monsanto-international-tribunal/
The Dutch Medical Association has released an ethics paper requiring physicians to help anyone who desires to commit suicide by self-starvation do the deed. It…
https://www.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism/dutchmds-must-help-patients-starve-death/
Back in 2014, before the Canadian Supreme Court imposed euthanasia on the whole country, Quebec legalized what it calls “aid in dying,” which in the context of…
https://www.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism/tyranny-prevails-canada/
Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states: Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom…
That didn’t take long. When Parliament legalized euthanasia for people with medical conditions leading to “foreseeable” death, many in the media and among the “experts”…
For years–decades, actually–euthanasia forces have tried to take MD opposition off the table by convincing major medical associations to adopt a position of “studied neutrality.”…
https://www.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism/md-studied-neutrality-assisted-suicide-cop-out/
I was as taken aback as anyone at the over-the-top outpouring of grief and anger over the necessary killing of Harambe the gorilla. But, unlike…
https://www.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism/grief-harmbe-defense-mechanism/
The very bad news: California has legalized assisted suicide. The somewhat good news: An increasing number of California hospitals are opting out. The other day,…
https://www.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism/palm-springs-hospitals-say-no-assisted-suicide/
Excellent. Several health care facilities in Santa Barbara have decided not to directly participate in assisted suicide. From the NoozHawk story: Santa Barbara County hospitals plan…
It is amazing how some in the sciences are so desperate to knock humans off the pedestal of exceptionalism. Ironically, a primary manner in which…
https://www.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism/monkeys-do-not-have-stone-age-culture/
The California media are atwitter with my state’s new assisted suicide law. And they are touting a death doctor named Lonny Shavelson who is opening a…
https://www.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism/death-doctor-clinic-california/