Tag: assisted suicide

Selfishness

If self-gratification is our highest good, then any act up to and including murder becomes good if done in its pursuit. The first pro-life bill of the new Congress, the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, passed the House last week…

The Killing Fields

“Absolute moral standards are becoming passé and everything is being relativized on its head. What is evil is now good; what is dark is now light; and he who is sick, old or defenseless is now worthless. All of which…

Glamorizing Suicide

Thousands of medical ethicists and bioethicists, as they are called, professionally guide the unthinkable on its passage through the debatable on its way to becoming the justifiable until it is finally established as the unexceptionable.   Richard John Neuhaus According to…

Is There a Duty to Die?

Humans are prone to push boundaries and hijack accepted practices for self-serving and even destructive purposes. There is no reason to think that assisted suicide or euthanasia would be an exception to this rule, especially with the generally accepted murder…

First Do No Harm?

Doctors in the U.S. cannot be forced to perform abortions or assist in the death of their patients at the present. But that may soon change. Bioethicists and other medical elites have launched a frontal assault against doctors that prefer…

Promoting Death With Dignity?

The battle over ideas is the battle over definitions.  Whoever controls the language controls the debate. A report in The New York Times by Erik Eckholm in 2014 exposed the corruption of our language by the left to hide their true…