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June 6, 2022
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Why Happy the Elephant Should Not Have Rights

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June 6, 2022
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Promoting the proper care of animals is a noble cause, but that is not what the legal effort to have Happy declared a “person” is ultimately all about. Read More ›

Definition of word euthanasia in dictionary

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May 19, 2022
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Suicide Contagion

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May 19, 2022
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I have often argued that, as a matter of logic and intuition, the widespread legalization of assisted suicide will increase both the rate of assisted suicides and the rate of unassisted suicides. Read More ›

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May 18, 2022
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With Dobbs on Horizon, States Continue to Ramp up Pro-Life Legislation in 2022

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May 18, 2022
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Reports surfaced last week that Justice Samuel Alito’s draft majority opinion that was leaked overturning Roe v. Wade is still the only one circulated inside the Supreme Court, giving great hope to pro-life advocates around the country. Read More ›

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May 9, 2022
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A Call for Medical Ethics | Wesley J Smith on The Dr. J Show

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May 9, 2022
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Wesley J. Smith is Chair and Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute’s Center on Human Exceptionalism. Wesley is a contributor to National Review and is the author of 14 books, in recent years focusing on human dignity, liberty, and equality. Read More ›

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May 5, 2022
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Pro-Life Push to Overturn Roe v. Wade in the Grand Tradition of American Democracy

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May 5, 2022
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What’s more democratic: The Supreme Court imposing a controversial abortion right on the entire country or allowing that contentious issue to be debated and ultimately decided by the people through their elected representatives or voter referenda? Read More ›

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April 23, 2022
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Biden Administration’s Plan to Destroy Medical Conscience is Un-American

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April 23, 2022
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If news reports are right, the Biden administration intends to force doctors and nurses to participate in abortions—even when it violates their religious beliefs. It plans to force Catholic hospitals to violate Church teachings by requiring them to provide sterilization and gender transition procedures, even on children. Read More ›

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March 24, 2022
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The Impossibility of Christian Transhumanism

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March 24, 2022
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So-called “Christian transhumanism,” or the attempt to blend the transhumanist agenda with the precepts of Christian theology, has been around for some time. But there has been a recent resurgence of interest in the project. Read More ›

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March 8, 2022
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The World Rages at Russia’s Evil Actions—but Shrugs at China’s

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March 8, 2022
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Ukraine is the immediate crisis, to be sure. But over the long term, the Middle Kingdom poses a far greater peril. Our policies going forward need to reflect that threatening reality. Read More ›

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March 1, 2022
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Dr. Jay Bhattacharya on COVID-19, Authentic Public Health, and the Biosecurity State

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March 1, 2022
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The COVID pandemic has been one of the most politically and culturally divisive events in American history. Which seems odd. Usually, a universal external threat unite societies and rallies populations to focus on the common foe. Instead, American society fractured into different tribes, which often coincided with our preexisting political factionalism. Read More ›

Older woman lying in hospital bed alone looking at the Christian crucifix asking for her healing.

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February 25, 2022
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Legalizing ‘Medical Aid in Dying’ Normalizes Suicide

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February 25, 2022
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Here’s the advocacy scam: “Death with dignity” activists push suicide facilitation for some people—but still claim to oppose suicide per se because they call doctor-prescribed death by the euphemism, “medical aid in dying” (MAID). Read More ›