Tag: bioethics

^{Wesley J. Smith
July 22, 2021
Bioethics}

Ethicists Urge Teaching Critical Race Theory in Bioethics Education

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 22, 2021
Bioethics}

I have sometimes gotten in trouble among the bioethics crowd for claiming that their field is more of an ideological movement than a dispassionate discourse. But know this: When a bioethicist speaks, unless there is a modifier such as “conservative” or “Catholic” before the term, that person is almost surely a political progressive. Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
July 13, 2021
Transgenderism}

Bioethicist: Impose Puberty Blocking over Parental Objection

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 13, 2021
Transgenderism}

Transgender ideology has advanced so far that serious proposals in the most respected medical and bioethics journals are being made to push parents out of the way if they oppose their child’s transition. Read More ›

Liquid Nitrogen bank containing suspension of stem cells. Cell culture for the biomedical diagnostic

^{Wesley J. Smith
June 4, 2021
Stem Cell Research}

Scientists Kill Embryo Research Time Restrictions

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 4, 2021
Stem Cell Research}

It was all such a con. During the Great Embryonic Stem Cell Debate, “the scientists” promised to restrict embryo-destructive research to 14 days. They said that was because the neural system begins to form after 14 days. Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
May 19, 2021
Abortion}

Richard Dawkins: ‘Wise and Sensible’ to Abort Babies with Down Syndrome

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 19, 2021
Abortion}

When eliminating suffering because society’s first priority — instead of protecting innocent human life — it very easily metastasizes into eliminating the sufferer. And the suffering need not even be that of the person eliminated, but of family or society. Utilitarianism always leads to justifying killing. Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
February 8, 2021
Nature and Conservation}

How Much More Should We Pay for Costco’s Chickens?

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 8, 2021
Nature and Conservation}

New York Times columnist Nick Kristof wrote one of his periodic columns decrying industrial methods of animal husbandry. This time, he focused on chickens and the raising methods that permit Costco to sell a whole rotisserie chicken for only $4.99. Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
February 2, 2021
Stem Cell Research}

Push on to Allow Expanded Human-Embryo Research

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 2, 2021
Stem Cell Research}

Back when embryonic-stem-cell and other types of experimentation on early embryos commenced, “the scientists” promised they would always limit their activities to embryos in Petri dishes to the maximum of 14 days in development. Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
October 29, 2020
Genetic Manipulation, Transhumanism}

Will Scientists Create a Conscious Human Brain in a Dish?

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 29, 2020
Genetic Manipulation, Transhumanism}

As society roils with COVID and the election, the biotechnological revolution rushes forward with scientists bound by few enforceable ethical boundaries. Read More ›