Category Archives: bioethics

NDRN’s Report Should Serve As a Call to Conscience for Health Care Providers

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The recommendations contained in the National Disability Rights Network’s (NDRN)report, “Devaluing People With Disabilities: Medical ProceduresThat Violate Civil Rights,” constitute nothing less than a call to conscience for health care providers who are withholding life-sustaining treatment without consent from people with disabilities who are not otherwise dying. Sometimes this is done at the request of … Continue reading NDRN’s Report Should Serve As a Call to Conscience for Health Care Providers →

National Disability Rights Group: Study Finds Medical System Violates Civil Rights of Disabled People

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I apologize for being a little late getting this news out from the National Disability Rights Network (NDRN).  There are two important issues affecting people with disabilities.  One, as the headline of the press release states, is the violation of people’s basic rights by surgical and other modifications on people’s bodies without any judicial review.  … Continue reading National Disability Rights Group: Study Finds Medical System Violates Civil Rights of Disabled People →

Canada: Global News Live Blogging Promotion of Killing Disabled Kids Tonight (March 16)

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(My apologies to people who subscribe to this blog via email.  You’ll get this info after the fact.) Tonight (March 16) Global News is doing a ‘live blog’ promoting the killing of children with disabilities.  The Canadian news network is calling it a ‘discussion,’ but they’re misleading people.  They have a three-person panel.  The first … Continue reading Canada: Global News Live Blogging Promotion of Killing Disabled Kids Tonight (March 16) →

President/CEO of Center for Practical Bioethics Careless with Facts Comparing Final Exit Network to Kevorkian

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I’ll be the first to admit that there are some bioethicists that can and do write with intellectual honesty and engage in rigorous analysis.  However, those qualities are not required in order to gain respect in the field of bioethics.  I offer Jacob Appel and Peter Singer as Exhibits A and B. (Those appear to … Continue reading President/CEO of Center for Practical Bioethics Careless with Facts Comparing Final Exit Network to Kevorkian →

The Onion: Brain-Dead Teen, Limited to Texting and Rolling Eyes, to be Euthanized (SATIRE)

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I love The Onion. I’m pretty sure that the writers aren’t taking a position on euthanasia here, but doing what satirists do best; they’ve taken a well-known, overused, emotionally manipulative and predictable script – and then twisted the context. I apologize for the lack of captioning, but I couldn’t pass this up. If there’s a … Continue reading The Onion: Brain-Dead Teen, Limited to Texting and Rolling Eyes, to be Euthanized (SATIRE) →