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April 15, 2024
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Belgian Health-Fund President: Euthanize Old People to Save Money

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April 15, 2024
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Earlier this month, I noted that a U.K. columnist was pushing euthanasia for the elderly as a way of saving national resources. That call has now been echoed by a Belgian health-insurance official for one of the five mutual-fund companies that provide the country’s mandatory health- and disability-insurance policies. Read More ›

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April 13, 2024
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A Market in Human Kidneys Is a Bad Idea

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April 13, 2024
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It is sometimes said that desperate circumstances require desperate measures. But desperation can also lead to the exploitation of the vulnerable. Such would be the case if we created a market in live-donation human kidneys. Read More ›

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April 8, 2024
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What Comes after Transgender? Doctor Amputates Man’s Healthy Fingers

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April 8, 2024
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I have long predicted that normalizing transgender surgeries would be followed eventually by doctors intentionally disabling patients with Body Identity Integrity Disorder (BIID). Well, here it comes. A doctor in Quebec "treated" a BIID patient by amputating two of his healthy fingers. Read More ›

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April 5, 2024
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Study: Most Gender-Confused Children become Gender-Conforming Adults

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April 5, 2024
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A new study has found that almost all children who experience gender confusion grow out of it as they age into adulthood. By the time gender-non-contented children are adults, of the 21-22 percent experiencing gender distress, all but 2 percent grew out of it. Read More ›

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April 3, 2024
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Normalizing Assisted Suicide Will Lead to a Duty to Die

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April 3, 2024
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Euthanasia isn't really about compassion but fear of decline and a loathing of dependency — and of those experiencing them. That nasty truth has become abundantly clear with a new column published in the Times of London. Read More ›

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March 29, 2024
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Beware the “Right to Health”

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March 29, 2024
Human Exceptionalism}

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
Human Exceptionalism}

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
Human Exceptionalism}

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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March 18, 2024
Human Exceptionalism}

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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October 30, 2023
Intelligent Design}

Frightening Abuses of Science: A Conversation with Wesley J. Smith

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October 30, 2023
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Experiments on the living unborn. Organ harvesting. Reckless biotech. Radical environmentalism. These are not horror stories playing at your local movie theater. They’re playing out in labs, hospitals, and institutes across America. On this episode of ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid speaks with bioethicist Wesley J. Smith about frightening abuses of science being done in the name of progress. Read More ›