This is unbelievable: Ian Wilmut has admitted that he did not clone Dolly the sheep. The more we learn about the cloning agenda, the less honesty there appears to have been in the field from the very start.Wilmut has acknowledged in a court case that he did not develop the technology that led to . . . . Continue Reading »
The International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the ongoing debates around the world to legalize mercy killing. I am honored to be an attorney and consultant for the organization. Indeed, Rita Marker and Kathy Hamlon of the Task . . . . Continue Reading »
The e-mail has been pouring in on my article in today’s NRO on the deconstruction of the Hippocratic Oath. They are so interesting and varied, I thought I’d share some of them with the readers of Secondhand Smoke. I intend to keep posting some of the newer communications as I receive . . . . Continue Reading »
A while ago, I posted several entries at Secondhand Smoke about the ongoing deconstruction of the Hippocratic Oath. As I promised, I have written a longer article analyzing what it all may mean. It is in today’s National Review Online. I am getting a lot of response already. I will post some . . . . Continue Reading »
So the country of forced abortions, femaile infanticide, and selling of executed prisoners’ organs wants to get into the euthanasia game. How . . . . Continue Reading »
This story reveals that Britain’s National Health Service, the socialized funder of medical care in the UK, is running deeply in the red. Some hospital wards are closing, surgeries may be delayed, and cost cutting is the order of the day.I have always worried that money would become a big part . . . . Continue Reading »
Sir Paul McCartney is a fantastic musician and composer. As someone who grew up in the era of The Beatles, I can only smile when I watch him perform. But he is dead wrong in his attempts to impeded necessary animal testing in medical research. Here, he writes to Arizona’s governor urging her . . . . Continue Reading »
Sigh. The UK is in the midst of a renewed effort to legalize assisted suicide. Toward this end, one of the pro assisted suicide groups has published a poll showing that 2/3 of UK doctors have provided strong pain control knowing it could hasten death. Well good for them. That is like saying that 3/4 . . . . Continue Reading »
What is happening to the UK? Here is another in a series of recent medical futility cases that takes Futile Care Theory another step closer to a “duty to die.” A baby known publicly only as MB, has a degenerative disease called spinal muscular atrophy. The illness, which does not affect . . . . Continue Reading »
Editorialist Paul Greenberg has written a compelling critique of a society that prefers dehydrating the profoundly cognitively impaired rather than nurse and care for them. Key quote: “What arrogance to decree that, because we deem another’s life not worth living, it must be ended. But . . . . Continue Reading »
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