I have an article (subscription required) in this week’s Weekly Standard about the thuggery of some animal rights activists. It describes how a small cadre of animal rights terrorists called Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC) has undertaken a campaign of intimidation and criminal harassment . . . . Continue Reading »
Two weeks ago I taped a debate about assisted suicide on the NPR program Talking Justice. It begins airing around the country on Saturday, October 8th, and can also be accessed at the show’s WEBsite. My adversary was Kathryn Tucker, the lawyer for Compassion and Choices (aka Hemlock Society). . . . . Continue Reading »
Wes, Your analysis [that assisted suicide is a policy of privilege] is right on. Diane Coleman of Not Dead Yet! [the disability rights organizatoin], wrote in 1998, “Who are the lead proponents of assisted suicide?—The Hemlock Society, who’s members have a median income of $52,000 . . . . Continue Reading »
This stuff comes over the transom all of the time, so I thought I’d share some of it with y’all.Israeli scientists report that umbilical cord blood stem cells can rejuvenate heart tissue.Adult stem cell therapy quickly and significantly improves recovery of motor function in an animal . . . . Continue Reading »
I have been reading stories about the oral arguments in the Supreme Court yesterday in Gonzales v. Oregon. It is often said that predictions cannot be made based on oral arguments. Bunk. In every appellate case in which I have been involved or observed, it was easy to discern at least the general . . . . Continue Reading »
Here we go again: A patient who supposedly had no chance of recovery has awakened. He states that while he was unable to respond, he could hear everything around him—verifying the article published in The Scientist that those in PVS may be able to hear, which I blogged on September 20 . . . . Continue Reading »
A private member’s bill to legalize euthanasia will be heard this year in Canada. Demonstrating that euthanasia is not really about terminal illness, the bill would authorize a broad category of killing. My good friend, the Canadian disability rights activist and Christian apologist Mark . . . . Continue Reading »
This gets so old: The media keep reporting that the Feds are seeking to invalidate Oregon’s assisted suicide law. No, they are not, as I explained here years ago. Here’s another bit of wrong reporting: I just heard an ABC radio news report in which the correspondent asserted that Chief . . . . Continue Reading »
What a debacle Proposition 71 is fast becoming. This article by the Christian bioethicist Nigel Cameron lays only part of it out. California is going billions in debt while our emergency rooms shut down for lack of funds, as we pay fat cat Big Biotech companies and their university collaborators . . . . Continue Reading »
I was asked by the Weekly Standard to review the latest report of the President’s Council on Bioethics, Taking Care: Ethical Caregiving in Our Aging Society. This will be the last released by the Council under the leadership of Kass, and it is outstanding. The report is a strong defense of the . . . . Continue Reading »
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