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Homemade sign at environmental rally. A colorful cardboard placard is viewed close up, saying the climate is changing, why aren't we, in the hands of ecological activists as they protest in the city

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January 16, 2022
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What 1973’s Soylent Green Accurately Predicted about 2022

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January 16, 2022
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I have always loved science fiction. So when Soylent Green was first released in 1973, I immediately headed to the theater. I remember clearly being shocked by the depictions presented but assuaging myself with the comforting thought that nothing like any of that would ever actually happen. Read More ›

Definition of word euthanasia in dictionary

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December 13, 2021
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We Are Becoming Pro-Suicide

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December 13, 2021
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Just what the world didn’t need — a suicide machine that promises to make users die pleasurably in just 30 seconds. Ready or not, it’s here. Read More ›

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October 21, 2021
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Anti-Conscience Mandates Force Doctors to Violate Their Religious Beliefs

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October 21, 2021
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Compelling doctors to hew to secular cultural values in their practice of medicine is both authoritarian and un-American. If the anti-medical conscience campaign succeeds, we will all be the poorer for it. Read More ›

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August 21, 2021
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Bioethicist: Let Doctors Kill the Healthy by Harvesting Organs

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August 21, 2021
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We have entered the era of what I call “do harm medicine,” in which the concept of what constitutes harming the patient has become entirely malleable and subjective. I even wrote a book covering that subject. Read More ›

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May 26, 2021
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AMA Helps Normalize Organ Harvesting after Euthanasia

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May 26, 2021
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Organ harvesting after euthanasia has become so normalized within the medical intellegentsia, that an American Medical Association publication, JAMA Surgery, had a letter debate — not about the propriety of killing and harvesting, but about whether the kill should begin at home or in a hospital. Read More ›

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January 18, 2021
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Washington Bill to Let Non-Doctors Participate in Assisted Suicide

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January 18, 2021
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When selling the legalization of assisted suicide, activists always promise that strict guidelines will protect against abuse. Read More ›

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December 31, 2020
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The Euthanasia Cancer Spreads

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December 31, 2020
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The West is tearing itself apart. The symptoms are evident in our bitterly divided politics and the attempts to punish those with heterodox views. Read More ›

desperate man in silhouette sitting on the bed with hands on head

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October 1, 2020
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Autonomy or Abandoning the Mentally Ill?

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October 1, 2020
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A U.K. woman with anorexia is in danger of starving to death and courts there will not allow force-feeding to save her life because she has decision-making capacity. Read More ›

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July 6, 2020
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The Deadly “Quality of Life” Ethic

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July 6, 2020
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Something evil happened recently in Austin. Michael Hickson, a forty-six-year-old African-American man with quadriplegia and a serious brain injury, was refused treatment at St. David’s Hospital South Austin while ill with COVID-19. Read More ›

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April 17, 2020
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The Jack Kevorkian Plague

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April 17, 2020
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