A tenured professor at an Ivy League school who defends murder and genocide? No, it can’t be, you say. Probably he said or wrote something that was taken out of context. Well, let’s let Peter Singer, the new chair of bioethics at Princeton University, speak for himself: “Human babies are not born self-aware, or capable of grasping that they exist…
On Feb. 27, the first state to legalize assisted suicide announced that it will start funding suicides for terminally ill poor people under the state’s Medicaid program. Although Congress last year forbade the use of federal tax dollars for Medicaid assisted suicides, Oregon’s Health Services Commission said that the state would spend its own taxpayers’ monies to cover what it…
There is a certain bureaucratic crispness to the report issued Feb. 17 by Oregon’s Health Division. In 15 of the 29,000 deaths reported in the state last year, the cause of death was “drug overdose, legally prescribed.” Each of the 15 had filled out a simple, one-page form titled “Request for medication to end my life in a humane and…
An expert committee of the American Medical Association has made an extraordinary and horrifying recommendation—that doctors be allowed to “harvest” hearts, kidneys, livers and other organs from babies. The proposal concerns anencephalic infants, babies who come into the world missing a large part of their brain. While they can eat and breathe, these babies often die within a few days…
“Stem cells” are those primordial elements of the human organism that are capable of developing into any cells or tissue in the body. Scientists believe that from these stem cells they might one day be able to grow heart muscle, bone marrow, or even kidney and brain cells. These could then be implanted in patients to replace damaged or diseased…
The abortion lie in America is so big that it hardly comes as a surprise when one of the builders of that lie now admits that he and his colleagues deceived the country about partial-birth abortion. What Ron Fitzsimmons, director of the National Coalition of Abortion Providers, admitted in an interview with the American Medical News (March 3), is nothing…