I have looked more closely at the awful Idaho futile care bill, S 1114, which I first addressed earlier today. Here are two more extremely objectionable clauses that show the intent to create a duty to die for the most infirm—and expensive for which to care—among us. From section394504A . . . . Continue Reading »
This is the kind of thing opponents of in vitro fertilization need to bring to light when debating the ethical ramifications of IVF. We need to point out how dehumanizing the process actually is. In this case, human embryos are created and compared to a mathematical model. If they don’t . . . . Continue Reading »
Over at the Weekly Standard our former colleague Ryan T. Anderson shows how Obama’s recent decision on stem cells is a bad move politically, ethically, and scientifically. He gives a thorough case for why embryo-destructive research is not only unnecessary and more expensive, but less likely . . . . Continue Reading »
The legislative process has become so overwhelming, that unless one hires a professional lobbying group to keep track, laws can pass quietly without any public attention at all.That seems to be the case in Idaho, where the Senate has passed a Texas-style futile care bill. The bill is so bad, it . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s a novel suggestion in response to the economic crisis: I propose a revolution. Our whole social order is flawed because we no longer understand the duty of the sexes. The duty of men is to talk about G-d by the city gates, make speeches and occasionally kill each other. The duty of . . . . Continue Reading »
” Islam Should Prove It’s A Religion of Peace,” insists Tawfik Hamid in today’s Wall Street Journal. Hamid, a Muslim reformer and former member of an Egyptian Terrorist organization, can’t understand why the West is so upset about Geert Wilders’ film, Fitna . . . . . Continue Reading »
In the run-up to Obama’s announcement overturning Bush’s restrictions on federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research, the media’s chosen narrative is hardly surprising: It’s the triumph of science over politics. Bush’s decision to ban federal funding of embryonic . . . . Continue Reading »
President Obama lifted the Bush ESCR restrictions—unleashing gushing hyperbole in the media and among “the scientists” about the technology that I frankly don’t have time to deconstruct. But Drudge is touting his promise of no cloning. From the story:President Barack Obama . . . . Continue Reading »
Terminal nonjudgmentalism and a refusal to do anything concrete lest one be thought mean or worse, conservative, is a problem that leads to a wide range cultural subversions—from the suicide counseling of the Final Exit Network to the new eugenics of destroying embryos that tests show will be . . . . Continue Reading »
One recent vanity is the potential revival of the “Fairness Doctrine,” which mandates that radio stations give opposing viewpoints equal airtime. Fr. Neuhaus noted a previous attempt and the protests of Evangelical broadcasters in the February 1994 Public Square : [Evangelicals’] . . . . Continue Reading »
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