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Center on Human Exceptionalism

The mission of Discovery Institute’s Center on Human Exceptionalism is to affirm and uphold the intrinsic nature of human dignity, liberty, and equality. In resistance to a growing movement against unique human personhood, we aim to revitalize a commitment to the traditional Western view of human rights and human responsibilities — summed up by the term “human exceptionalism.” Read more

Humanize

Suicide Contagion

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May 19, 2022}

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.

When Medical Science Becomes Heartless: The Case of Joshua Smith: John G. West; May 18, 2022

With Dobbs on Horizon, States Continue to Ramp up Pro-Life Legislation in 2022: Arina O. Grossu; May 18, 2022

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

India State High Court Rules That Nature Is a ‘Living Being’ with ‘Rights’: Wesley J. Smith; May 2, 2022

Vermont Legalizes Assisted Suicide by Zoom: Wesley J. Smith; April 28, 2022

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Podcast

Joseph Bottum on Cyber Ethics, Poetry, Culture, and Community

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Jackson Meyer
May 9, 2022}

In this episode of Humanize, Wesley has a wide-ranging a conversation with his close friend Joseph Bottum, one of our most well read and original thinkers, a true intellectual in the best sense of that term. Their conversation ranges from the new field of cyber-ethics, to poetry, to the importance of cemeteries in maintaining human community, to how the laughter Read More ›

O. Carter Snead on Bioethics, ‘What It Means to Be Human,’ and the Pro-Life Movement After Dobbs

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Tom Shakely
April 25, 2022}

Perhaps no field in society has the naked power, as does bioethics, to impact our individual lives and those of the ones we love. Bioethics focuses on the challenges of mortality, how we care for the ill and vulnerable, and the rights and responsibilities that flow from being a member of the human family The problem is that there is Read More ›

Lynn Vincent on ‘Lawless,’ the Truth About the Terri Schiavo Case, and Why Terri Still Matters

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Jackson Meyer
April 11, 2022}

When Terri Schiavo collapsed with a cardiac arrest in 1990, she could have had no idea that 32 years later people all over the world would know her name and care very much about the manner in which she died. What began as a private family tragedy ultimately exploded into an international cultural conflagration and what was perhaps the most Read More ›