‘Medical conscience’: The next bitter partisan battleground
Over a dozen state attorneys general want to force doctors to perform medical procedures ranging from morally questionable to morally abhorrent.
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Articles tagged Ethics
Celebrated moral philosopher: It’s OK to rape the disabled
The disabled are ‘incapable of giving or withholding informed consent to sexual relations.’
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Doctors, assisted suicide is a choice between life and death. You can’t be neutral.
Direct involvement with killing patients can never be neutral.
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Big families are causing ‘catastrophic climate change,’ ethicist claims in new book
But experts say this latest case of alarmism is a guised push for eugenics and population control.
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California’s assisted suicide law: Are some lives not worth living, or are all lives precious?
A California law set to go into effect could triple the number of assisted deaths in the state and opens a Pandora's box of ethical questions.
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Second thoughts on euthanasia in Quebec
Medical professionals in Québec are already grappling with the new law and the "moral burdens" it imposes.
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Inducing labor before viability is morally unacceptable: Pro-life ethicists
Early inducement is a form of assault that “is very deliberately targeted on the baby,” said John Smeaton, SPUC director.
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The moral status of the human embryo – when is he or she a person?
The issue, which has profound implications for medical practice as doctors, has divided people for centuries and remains controversial.
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Industry journal admits IVF-related technologies not tested, unsafe
Normally with new biomedical technologies, a technique is rigorously tested on animals for years before it is applied to humans, but in the IVF industry it's a different story.
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Biotech company using cell lines from aborted babies in food enhancement testing
Pepsico, Kraft Foods, and Nestlé are among the corporations partnered with a biotech company found using aborted fetal cell lines to test food flavor enhancers.
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