Belgian law will increase euthansia, targeting Catholic to force doctors, health workers ‘to kill’ their patients
The lower Chamber of the Belgian federal Parliament has approved several measures in favor of increased access to euthanasia, which has been legal in the country since 2002. On Thursday, a large majority of Chamber More...
Bioethical issues and organ donation with Sigrid Fry-Revere JD, PhD
Definition of death, presumed consent, the selling of organs. These are just some of the issues medical ethicists deal with when it comes to organ donation and transplantation. Image/Roxbury-de I am joined by medical More...
Texas court to hear Dismemberment Abortion ban on Monday
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit will hear oral arguments over the Texas Dismemberment Abortion Ban on Monday, November 5. The three-judge panel hearing the arguments will include Chief More...
Women’s group supports Indiana law banning disability, race, and sex-based abortion
Attorneys with Alliance Defending Freedom and the Bioethics Defense Fund filed a friend-of-the-court brief Tuesday with a federal appeals court on behalf of three Down syndrome organizations and a grassroots women’s More...
ADF helps Vermont health care professionals opt out of euthanasia practices, assisted suicides
Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys asked a federal court Monday to stop Vermont officials in two state agencies from forcing conscientious health care professionals to help kill their patients while the lawsuit More...
4 Ways to Modernize Your Manufacturing Operation
Manufacturing has never been an easy process – there are many moving parts that make up the system of procurement. Products must be sourced strategically before they can be assembled either in part or in whole More...
Princeton’s Peter Singer argues it’s ‘reasonable’ to deny care for disabled babies
In a radio interview Sunday, Princeton University ethics professor Peter Singer submitted that it is “reasonable” for the government or private insurance companies to deny treatment to severely disabled babies. Singer More...
Court affirms Catholic school’s right to teach ‘ethics’ aligned with their faith
The Supreme Court of Canada ruled unanimously Thursday that the government cannot force a private Catholic high school to teach a government-mandated ethics and religion course that includes teaching contrary to More...
Market-based organ donation: A solution to the shortages?
As I look at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) website for The Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) today, there are 123,000 people on waiting lists for organs, with the bulk of More...
