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Beware the “Right to Health”

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Health and wellness are becoming the primary justifications for international technocracy, or "rule by experts." Indeed, we are told that preventing the next pandemic will require that the World Health Organization be given the power to declare pandemics and impose emergency policies internationally. Read More ›

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March 22, 2024
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“Gender Science” Was Merely Ideology All Along

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March 22, 2024
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Did you hear the news? England's National Health Service (NHS) has decided that children diagnosed with gender dysphoria will no longer receive puberty blockers because "there is not enough evidence to support the safety or clinical effectiveness . . . to make the treatment routinely available at this time." Read More ›

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March 21, 2024
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Euthanasia Poisons People and Societies

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March 21, 2024
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Most of the media report on euthanasia in the glowing, uncritical language of empowered patients "dying peacefully on their own terms." In contrast, euthanasia abuses and horror stories—an ever-growing list—generally receive little focused media attention and remain outside the notice of people not engaged with the issue. Read More ›

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March 18, 2024
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Politico Promotes a Suicide

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Politico has published a long story about a big-time political consultant named Hal Malchow who is flying to Switzerland to become dead in one of the country's notorious suicide clinics. Read More ›

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February 5, 2024
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The Nationalization of Assisted Suicide Will Have Far-Reaching Consequences

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Progressive cultural radicals are busily nationalizing their policy agendas by breaking the usual legal comity among the states. For example, California recently declared itself a transgender sanctuary jurisdiction. Its law now actively interferes with out-of-state child custody orders by allowing non-resident gender dysphoric children who make it to California to access puberty-blocking and transition surgeries despite their custodial parent’s refusal of consent. Read More ›

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January 18, 2024
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World Health Organization Fails at Forcing ‘Gender-Affirming Care’ on Children

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January 18, 2024
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The ruling class and international community clearly intend to impose a radical view of “sexual health” on us all—including setting gender-affirming care as the standard of care for treating gender dysphoric children—policies not shared by or agreed with by billions of the world’s people. Read More ›

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January 10, 2024
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Bioethicist Pushes Human Extinction in Prestigious Journal

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The fear of suffering (or deprivation of personal desires) is causing untold moral harm in the West — from ever-expanding euthanasia laws to the march of increasingly radical reproductive technologies, to transitioning children with gender dysphoria with harmful puberty blockers and mastectomies on teenage girls, to transhumanistic advocacy that threatens to unleash new eugenics, etc. Read More ›

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December 12, 2023
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Why Does the Proposal for Chimp–Human Hybrids Keep Coming Back?

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December 12, 2023
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A few days ago, Templeton Foundation's mailer for its online magazine Nautilus pointed to a five-year-old article by University of Washington psychology prof (emeritus) David P. Barash, advocating the creation of a humanzee: “Doing so would be a terrific idea.” Read More ›

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Legalizing Euthanasia Poisons a Nation’s Soul

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November 24, 2023
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Euthanasia isn't only bad medicine but also poisons the soul of nations that embrace killing as an answer to human suffering. Read More ›

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October 21, 2023
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No to Killing for Organs

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October 21, 2023
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The shortage of organs for transplantation is threatening to unleash immoral and unethical remedies. A terrible story out of Belgium illustrates the peril. Read More ›

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October 5, 2023
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‘Ocean Rights’ Earth Religion Advances in the UN

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The “international world order” is increasingly radical in its environmental engagement and anti-human in the policies it promotes. In the great cause of “saving the planet,” scientific precepts and empirical analyses are being cast aside in favor of a neo-earth religious mysticism. Read More ›

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September 15, 2023
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Say No to ‘Public Health’ Imperialism

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COVID-19 mandates and lockdowns opened the door. Now, the medical establishment is redefining our most contentious political controversies as “public health emergencies” so as to circumvent public resistance and impose policies on society unobtainable through normal democratic means. Read More ›