March 31, 2008
The media is abuzz about the creation of a “suicide machine” by a Swiss doctor that let’s people kill themselves at the push of a button. Amazing times in which we live, no? But this is hardly new. Even though … Read More
March 31, 2008
The Seattle PI columnist Joel Connelly is a refreshing exception to much of the media that continue to see assisted suicide as a modernistic “choice” issue rather than one founded in abandonment and inequality. He has a column today (for … Read More
March 30, 2008
A very interesting and disturbing article, written by medical school professor Dr. Herbert L. Fred, has been published in the Texas Heart Institute Journal. Dr. Fred warns warns that our medical students have a “laboratory oriented” rather than a “patient … Read More
March 29, 2008
The NHS is continuing to implode, and apparently some have seen that perhaps a private/public system is the answer. From the story: Tens of thousands of NHS patients will be given money to pay for their own health care in … Read More
March 29, 2008
Well, the old days of “the scientists” such as some of the people over at Amendment 2 in Missouri telling reporters and legislators that adult stem cells are merely “unipotent,” that is, that they can only create their own kind … Read More
March 28, 2008
Demonstrating the subversive nature of the euthanasia/assisted suicide movement on proper medical care, Dutch doctors are switching from lethally injecting patients to sedating them into a permanent coma so they die by dehydration over a period of days or weeks. … Read More
March 28, 2008
For shame! Assemblywoman Patti Berg and Assemblyman Lloyd Levine are at it again in the California Legislature. Soon to be term limited out of office, desperate to pass a bill–any bill– that will open the door to assisted suicide/euthanasia, thwarted … Read More
March 27, 2008
The CIRM has a policy against buying eggs for cloning and other biomedical research. But…I warned a bit ago that some bioethicists and bioscientists were agitating to change that policy. Now, the new head of the CIRM, Alan Trounson, has … Read More
March 26, 2008
As I often say, euthanasia consciousness leads to the bottomless pit. Latest example: There is now pressure in Belgium to open euthanasia to children and people with dementia. From the story: Teenagers should be given the right to medically assisted … Read More
March 25, 2008
Under intense pressure from the Catholic Church and others, Prime Minister Gordon Brown is allowing a free vote on the notorious embryo bill, that we first discussed the here at SHS a few days ago. From the story: Mr Brown … Read More
March 23, 2008
Not content with thousands of euthanasia and assisted suicide deaths a year, the Dutch are about to have access to a suicide guide. From the story: A scientific guide to DIY suicide is to go on sale in the Netherlands … Read More
March 22, 2008
The British Government is finding the road to passage of its new Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill extremely controversial. One would hope so. Consider some of its provisions as described by the Telegraph: Hybrid embryos: The Bill permits the creation … Read More
March 20, 2008
That horrible case in San Luis Obispo, in which Dr. Hootan Roozrokh, an organ transplant surgeon is accused of attempting to hasten the death of Ruben Navarro, a dependent adult to harvest his organs, is going to trial. From the … Read More
March 19, 2008
The news at the NHS goes from crisis to crisis. Now, women in labor are being turned away from hospitals. From the story: Almost half of NHS hospitals were forced to turn women in labour away last year because they … Read More
March 19, 2008
Peter Singer once again wants to shove human “non persons” out of the life boat. Not content with advocating infanticide, he also promotes futile care theory and suggests that patients with dementia be denied antibiotics and that other patients be … Read More
March 19, 2008
Not content with doctors killing the terminally ill, people with disabilities, the chronically ill, the depressed, and babies born with disabilities–not to mention the seriously ill who did not ask to be killed–the Dutch Parliament will now debate allowing doctors … Read More
March 19, 2008
The Oregon Department of Human Services has issued its virtually worthless annual report for 2007. (Hit this link for details about the empirical unreliability of this yearly charade.) Based on what the Department was told by prescribing physicians–that is where … Read More
March 18, 2008
There are two stories that, if true, may be causally linked. First, the AMA News is reporting that medical students lose empathy for their patients during the course of medical school. From the story: It only takes a year to … Read More
March 18, 2008
The New York Times has reached a new low–and for that biased rag, that’s saying a lot. Now Jane E. Brody, the Times’ health columnist, is pushing two assisted suicide facilitation groups to her readers–including those who aren’t terminally ill. … Read More
March 16, 2008
This news out of the UK is unexpected and a validation of what some advocates have been saying for years. The Royal College of Psychiatrists–not pro lifers–have determined that women who have abortions are at risk of mental breakdown. From … Read More
March 16, 2008
The assisted suicide group Dignitas has opened it’s killing house next to a brothel. From the story: The Swiss assisted suicide group Dignitas, which was evicted from its flat in Zurich after complaints about bodies in the lift, has opened … Read More
March 15, 2008
Brave New Britain just keeps getting Braver and Newer: Now there is a serious discussion of putting the DNA of children into a database because they might become future criminals. From the story: Primary school children should be eligible for … Read More
March 15, 2008
Now this is a particularly interesting illustration of the discrimination that the assisted suicide movement would imbed into the law. A man was convicted of involuntary manslaughter and sentenced to five years in jail for assisting the suicide of his … Read More
March 13, 2008
When voters swallowed the Proposition 71 snake oil and went billions into debt in a state already drowning in red ink to chase the rainbow of human cloning, they had no idea that the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine would … Read More
March 12, 2008
I have been focusing recently on S 1810, the Kennedy/Brownback Bill, could result in fewer eugenic abortions, or babies refused life-sustaining treatment–with more to come. The related issue of newborn genetic screening was taken up recently by the President’s Council … Read More
