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Getting Out of God’s Way
Sometimes it takes a greater hero to refuse a destructive drink than to stand with a bayonet,…
The “Medical Conscience” Civil Rights Movement
Until recently, healthcare was not culturally controversial. Medicine was seen as primarily concerned with extending lives, curing…
Your Mind Uploaded in a Computer Would Not Be You
Man, who is born of woman, is short-lived and full of turmoil. Like a flower he comes…
My Protestant Oscar Predictions
I make a point of never watching the Oscars. If I want to waste four hours of…
Joseph Fletcher’s Dark Dreams Becoming Our Reality
Joseph Fletcher (1905–1991) was one the most influential philosophers and bioethicists of the twentieth century. His advocacy…
Trump is Letting Scientists Play God
President Donald J. Trump could care less about biotechnology. How else to explain his total failure to…
Self-Sacrificial Love in the Bioethics-Sphere
Kiss today goodbye And point me toward tomorrow. We did what we had to do. Won’t forget, can’t regret What…
Apple Sabotages Itself
Perhaps these laws we are trying to unravel do not exist at all. There is a small…
An AI Thanksgiving Proclamation
We live in metaphysically desolate times. An increasing number of us—particularly among the millennial generation—now reject Christianity…
Awaiting Our Comeuppance
Sometimes, older works of literature provide a good starting point for reflections that strike at the root…
Being Alive is the First Requirement for Moral Value
With the release of Blade Runner 2049, the long-awaited sequel to the 1982 classic, philosophers and bioethicists…
Euthanasia and the Belgian Brothers of Charity
Over a decade before the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Archbishop Joseph Francis Rummel of New Orleans formally moved to…
Justice for Jahi
In California, Jahi McMath is legally dead. In New Jersey, she is legally alive. Now, the deceased—or…
Putting Infants “Down Like Dogs”
The Charlie Gard tragedy has renewed public advocacy for legalizing infanticide. Writing in the New York Times…
