One of the things I have come to understand about the euthanasia movement is that the law will never be loose enough to satiate the appetite of the ideologically committed for death on demand. As one example, when the Dutch formally legalized euthanasia, the very next day the Minister of Health . . . . Continue Reading »
The agitation to increase the pool of potential organ donors by allowing people who are unquestionably not dead, but who have profound cognitive disabilities, to be killed for their organs continues. An article in the American Medical News, primarily concerned with organ procurement after . . . . Continue Reading »
I am not sure what to make of this. According to a Politico writer, President Obama many not rescind President Bush’s embryonic stem cell funding executive order. He is going to leave it to the Congress. From the story:Obama pledged during the campaign to lift the restrictions, and political . . . . Continue Reading »
After seeing The Day the Earth Stood Still ten times, Rat throws the earth baby out with the human . . . . Continue Reading »
I’ll be traveling down Tobacco Road next week, giving some public talks. Come out for the events, if you happen to be in North Carolina. The first is at Duke, an exploration of my work on the death of Mainline Protestantism and the effect that has on American political theory . That’s . . . . Continue Reading »
The coup de culture, as I have defined it, is the process by which the reigning cultural value system of human exceptionalism—which is itself founded in the moral philosophy of Judeo-Christianity/humanism— is being subverted and replaced by a new paradigm steeped in . . . . Continue Reading »
In addition to pushing assisted suicide, groups like Compassion and Choices yearn for respectability and desire to be seen as legitimate care givers for patients, at least in an informational context. That was part of the point last year when California passed AB 2747, requiring doctors to inform . . . . Continue Reading »
As I have often said, the culture of death brooks no dissent. The Bush “conscience clause” regulations protecting health care workers from being discriminated against in their employment for refusing to participate in medical procedures with which they disagree on religious or moral . . . . Continue Reading »
It is sickening to read the proposed bureaucratic forms that patients and their death doctors will fill out and send to the state when planning assisted suicides. Twenty years ago, people would have called me a total paranoid if I predicted this is what we would become. I wouldn’t have . . . . Continue Reading »
As previously advertised , my colleague Amanda Shaw and I were on SIRIUS Satellite Radio’s Catholic Channel this afternoon with Fr. Aquinas Guilbeau, O.P., on his weekly show “Word to Life.” Fr. Aquinas has a recording of the show here on his website . Amanda and I appear around . . . . Continue Reading »
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