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Bioethicists Want to Rule the World!

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Belgian Health-Fund President: Euthanize Old People to Save Money

12.04.2024 10

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What Comes after Transgender? Doctor Amputates Man’s Healthy Fingers

07.04.2024 60

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Study: Most Gender-Confused Children become Gender-Conforming Adults

04.04.2024 5

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Beware the ‘Right to Health’

28.03.2024 10

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Politico Promotes a Suicide

18.03.2024 10

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California Plans to Kill Terminal-Illness Requirement for Assisted Suicide

10.03.2024 30

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Court Rules That Christian Employers Aren’t Required to Insure for Gender-Transition Procedures

07.03.2024 40

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Thailand Plans to Reopen Exploitive Commercial Surrogacy Industry

04.03.2024 20

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Granting ‘Rights’ to ‘Nature’ Being Negotiated in the U.N.

26.02.2024 30

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‘Terminalism’: U.S. Assisted-Suicide Laws Discriminate Against the Dying

23.02.2024 8

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Self-Starvation to Qualify for Assisted Suicide

08.02.2024 20

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Bioethics Journal Article: Pregnancy Equivalent to Catching the Measles

05.02.2024 40

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Organ-Harvesting Requested from Those to Be Killed by Euthanasia in Quebec

31.01.2024 4

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Dutch Doctors to Help People Commit Suicide by Self-Starvation

29.01.2024 7

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WHO Admits Evidence Supporting ‘Gender-Affirming Care’ in Children Is ‘Limited and Variable’

18.01.2024 9

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Arizona ‘Living Will’ Bill Could Force Caregivers to Starve Cognitively Incapacitated Patients

16.01.2024 10

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Mass Aborting of Down-Syndrome Babies Amounts to Eugenics

14.01.2024 30

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Bioethicist Pushes Human Extinction in Prestigious Journal

11.01.2024 8

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Francis Collins Disappointed as a Public-Health Leader

31.12.2023 20

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Pediatrics Pushes Gender-Affirming Ideology

25.12.2023 9

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Another Canadian Patient Euthanized After Inability to Access Prompt Oncological Care

19.12.2023 20

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Medical Journal Publishes Anti-Capitalist Global-Warming Screed

The Lancet is at it again. Having previously strived mightily to transform global warming into a planetary health emergency, it has now published a...

16.12.2023 4

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Mainstream Media Discovers ‘Nature Rights’ Movement

Nature-rights advocacy is moving into the big time. Indeed, the mainstream media has finally discovered that advocates want to give nature human-style...

12.12.2023 6

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Canadian Cancer Patient Euthanized Because He Couldn’t Obtain Chemotherapy

We are told continually that the Canadian system of health care is better than ours. Hardly. A Canadian cancer patient was euthanized after opting for...

06.12.2023 30

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The Lancet Wants to Decriminalize Consuming Hard Drugs

Our top medical journals still publish bona fide scientific studies. But the editors’ primary concern these days seems more about promoting woke...

25.11.2023 6

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One-Way Street: What Gender ‘Social Affirmation’ Looks Like

The Manitoba Children’s Hospital touts its transitioning of children to the gender that “reflects their true identity.” To promote their...

17.11.2023 5

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Dutch Town Names ‘Nature’ a Legal Entity with Right to be Heard in Court

The nature-rights movement continues to progress — and to be ignored by those who could oppose it before it gets totally out of hand. Another small...

15.11.2023 4

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AMA Retains Policy against Assisted Suicide

I am a frequent critic of the medical establishment. But not this time.  It didn’t make much news, but the American Medical Association had another...

14.11.2023 6

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Dutch People Support Euthanasia for a ‘Completed Life’

Once a society embraces killing as an answer to suffering, the “suffering” that qualifies for termination never stops expanding. The Dutch have...

11.11.2023 3

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Corporation Names ‘Nature’ to Board of Directors

The way things are going, the “nature rights” movement won’t need new laws to attain personhood status for Pachamama. Woke corporations will do...

08.11.2023 3

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We’re All ‘Infertile’ Now

The American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) has redefined the term “infertility.” The diagnosis used to mean the inability to conceive...

02.11.2023 4

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Medical Journals Demand Declaration of Worldwide Climate-Driven Health ‘Emergency’

Are medical journals now ideological publications that also report on medical studies, or do they remain generally scientific publications that also...

01.11.2023 7

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Euthanasia for Autism, Intellectual Disabilities in the Netherlands

The AP is reporting that a medical study found that autistic people and those with intellectual disabilities have been euthanized in the Netherlands....

30.10.2023 3

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Milwaukee County Passes ‘Rights of Nature’ Resolution

Environmentalism is growing increasingly anti-human. The “nature rights” movement epitomizes the misanthropy. If the suppose rights of Nature...

29.10.2023 6

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Euthanasia Deaths in Canada since 2022 — 13,241 and Rising

Canada has released its annual euthanasia report for 2022 — and it’s a bleak business. More than 13,000 Canadians received lethal jabs last year,...

28.10.2023 20

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How ‘Medical Aid in Dying’ Became the Euphemism of Choice for Assisted Suicide

The word engineering never stops, does it? When radical policies are proposed, the first step is to change the lexicon to make it seem less extreme,...

24.10.2023 3

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Were a 16-Year-Old Belgian Girl’s Organs Harvested before Euthanasia?

A 16-year-old girl with a brain tumor has been euthanized in Belgium and her organs harvested. She’s not the first minor so killed in that country....

19.10.2023 40

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American College of Clinical Pharmacy Runs Away from Open Scientific Discourse

The scientific method and the crafting of public policy requires open scientific discourse. But these days, that is in increasingly short supply. The...

17.10.2023 6

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Animal-Rights Philosopher: Let Animals Vote!

The radicalism never stops. A post published by Oxford University Press -- not a fringe publisher! -- has advocated giving voting rights to animals....

15.10.2023 5

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Saving Humans Is More Important Than Saving Pigs

The chronic shortage of organs for transplantation has some bioethicists supporting unethical curatives, such as doing away with the dead-donor rule,...

13.10.2023 2

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Danish Council of Ethics Nixes Euthanasia/Assisted Suicide

We have sufficient experience with assisted suicide/euthanasia to understand where it leads — an ever-expanding regime of medicalized killing and...

12.10.2023 2

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Danish Studies: Mental, Cardiac Health Worse in Transgendered Persons

The gender-ideological hypothesis that so-called “gender-affirming” care is indisputably best for young people with gender confusion continues to...

07.10.2023 2

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Wisconsin Court: Keeping Gender-Dysphoric Child’s ‘Pronouns’ Secret Violates Parental Rights

A Wisconsin judge has ruled that Kettle Moraine School District “violated parental rights by adopting a policy to allow, facilitate, and affirm a...

03.10.2023 2

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The American Anthropological Association Is Shamefully Anti-Scientific

Here we go again: A supposedly scientific organization crushes the scientific method in the cause of radical ideology. Anthropology is the study of...

30.09.2023 10

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The Canadian Culture of Death Brooks No Dissent

Mere legalization of euthanasia is never enough. Eventually, efforts will be made to compel dissenting doctors and institutions to become complicit in...

29.09.2023 2

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Prestigious Science-Journal Article Tells Scientists to ‘Get Arrested’ to Save the Planet

As trust in our institutions—including science—abates, the world’s most prestigious professional journals keep churning out ideological tracts...

23.09.2023 6

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Protecting Gender-Dysphoric Children Is Neither Hateful nor Uniquely Conservative

Gender ideologues keep pretending that laws limiting so-called gender-affirming care for children — such as puberty-blocking, mastectomies, and...

22.09.2023 2

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Study: Mental-Health Degeneration in 34 Percent of Children after Puberty Blocking

When ideologues and the media insist that puberty blocking is the only appropriate care for children with gender dysphoria, don’t believe it. The...

19.09.2023 2

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Pro-Abortion MDs Refused to Help Craft Informed Health Exceptions to Later-Term Ban

It is no secret that the medical establishment is chock full of abortion absolutists who loathe the idea of any meaningful limitations on abortion....

16.09.2023 6

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