Nat Hentoff is a familiar name for those of us in the battles against euthanasia, assisted suicide, and infanticide. The comments Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama made during the February 26th debate with Hillary Clinton caught Hentoff’s attention as well as ours. Writing in Jewish World Review, Hentoff writes: In none of the endless presidential … Continue reading Nat Hentoff on Obama and Schiavo
Last night, the Associated Press issued a story on Jack Kevorkian’s formal announcement of his intended candidacy for Congress in Michigan’s 9th District. Right now, the story is on about 25 different news sites. It’s hard to know which link will stay up the longest. I’ll go with ABC for now, anyway: When asked about … Continue reading NDY Quoted in AP Coverage of Kevorkian While Others in the Media Drop the Ball
Greg Dahlmann, at blog.bioethics.net, alerts readers to Graeme Wood’s article arguing that we should permit (in Dahlmann’s words) “death row prisoners to, essentially, die by organ donation.” Wood’s article is titled “Let’s Harvest the Organs of Death-Row Inmates“: But by using what the bioethicist Arthur Caplan calls “the Mayan Protocol”—a term derived from the ancient … Continue reading Taking Credit for Kevorkian’s Ideas: Prisoners and Organ Harvesting
Princeton bioethicist Peter Singer has put himself into the media spotlight again. This time, he’s gone to defend the idea that professional judgment and state interests can trump individual autonomy. The “case example” he uses in his latest op-ed is the highly publicized case of Sam Golubchuk, an elderly man whose family has been fighting … Continue reading Peter Singer – A Slippery Mind
New York Times “Health” reporter Jane E. Brody is no stranger to this blog. Back in August, this blog took issue with her article promoting the so-called “non-heartbeating death” protocol in which organs may be harvested after the heart is stopped. Most articles covering this topic have attempted to discuss the ethical pitfalls in this … Continue reading NY Times Reporter Shills for Euthanasia Organizations
