In the Sunday bulletin at Church of Our Saviour there was a good quotation from Mother Teresa on the topic of abortion and human rights. I discovered that the quotation came from an amicus brief that she filed for the cases of Loce v. New Jersey and Krail et al. v. New Jersey in February 1994. The . . . . Continue Reading »
As I write these words, the stock markets around the world are tanking in the wake of a nearly trillion dollar bailout that the experts designed to prevent this very collapse. Oops.Financial issues are not what we do here, but I think there is an aspect of the financial crisis . . . . Continue Reading »
The next time a surgeon accidentally leaves a sponge inside a patient or a nurse administers the wrong type of blood in a transfusion, Medicare and the taxpayer will no longer pay to clean up the mess: Medicare, the government insurance program for the elderly and disabled, will stop paying . . . . Continue Reading »
A little Rowan Atkinson for your Monday morning: . . . . Continue Reading »
In an article “Iran’s ‘Bob Dylan’ Under Fire Over Qu’ran Song,” Radio Farda reports that Mohsen Namjoo, Iran’s most popular, and controversial, musician, has provoked the wrath of “Qu’ran experts and religious figures” who say . . . . Continue Reading »
Well, this could be very interesting—or awful. Apparently CBS has a new series starting next week called The Eleventh Hour. And it seems to cover many of the issues we discuss here at SHS. From the PR Internet site: Humankind has survived devastation: Famine. Plague. Predators. Insects. . . . . Continue Reading »
I have been warning here at SHS and in my other writings, that some bioethicists and organ transplant physicians want societal license to kill patients for their organs. Now, thanks to Will Saletan writing in the Washington Post, the MSM is finally noticing. From Saletan’s column:Robert Truog, . . . . Continue Reading »
Rita Marker, the head of the International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide knows more about the politics and facts of the facilitated death agenda than anyone else on earth. In this “open letter” to Baroness Warnock, who SHS readers will recall recently renewed her call for . . . . Continue Reading »
Why Peter Singer finally conceded that pigs aren’t . . . . Continue Reading »
One of the most radical alterations in the self definition of humankind has just occurred in Ecuador and the world snoozes. But the radical environmental movement sees what is happening and is cheering. From a Global Exchange press release: Today, the people of Ecuador voted to recognize the . . . . Continue Reading »
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