In case you missed it, today is National Healthcare Decisions Day (NHDD). We’re all invited to “join Americans across the country to talk to others about your future healthcare decisions and to complete your advance directive!” We’ll pass, at least when it comes to joining with the coalition promoting this effort. If you check the … Continue reading National Healthcare Decisions Day: Count Me Out
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
The name of Peter Singer is probably familiar to many of the readers of this blog and website. Peter Singer is a bioethicist and tenured professor who teaches bioethics at Princeton University. Singer (who should not be confused with the Peter Singer at the University of Toronto) made his reputation in Australia before moving here. … Continue reading Peter Singer – meet Brad Hennefer
This particular entry is difficult to write, since I’ll be referring to an article that is generally unavailable to the public. But it’s important enough to take a crack at it. I suspect that a number of readers of this blog will find a way to get the article one way or another. (smile) For … Continue reading Hastings Ctr Report: Article Claims Ashley X “Sacrificed for the disability rights agenda”
This latest confirms my impression that transhumanists have an overrepresentation of bottom-feeders and generally sleazy characters. The latest blog posting of George Dvorsky brings even his performance to a new low. Before I get into the latest post of his, a little history is in order. Dvorsky was the source of the quote about “Ashley … Continue reading Transhumanist Suggests Doctor’s Suicide Was “Wrought” by Disability Activists
