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June 2021

June 10, 2021

Peter Singer: Eugenics Is Great! (YIKES!)

One insidious aspect of the culture of death is the idea we can kill "undesirable"...

February 2021

February 13, 2021

DNR Orders Forced on Those With Learning Disabilities

Back in April 2020, I reported on how DNR (Do Not Resuscitate) orders were put...

February 11, 2021

FREE Euthanasia for the Disabled in Canada

The Canadian government is proposing a law that will push euthanasia on the disabled. This...

October 2020

October 27, 2020

“Cost-Savings” Claimed as Euthanasia Benefit in Canada

Canada approved "Medical Aid in Dying" in 2016. This law legalized both assisted suicide and...

August 2020

August 22, 2020

Woman Told She Should Have Aborted Autistic Children

In Ireland, someone told a woman with two autistic children that she should have aborted...

August 01, 2020

Genetic Screening Might Kill Disabled Babies

Yes, you read that right. Most of you have probably heard about genetic testing on...

April 2020

April 11, 2020

Give Autistics Control: Don’t Push DNR Orders on Us

In the UK, doctors put DNR (Do Not Resuscitate) orders on a bunch of autistic adults'...

April 08, 2020

Pope Francis Condemns Eugenic Abortion, Again

Reading one paragraph of Pope Francis's interview with Austen Ivereigh today, I was reminded of...

December 2019

December 10, 2019

CBS Treats Eugenic Dating as Advancement

This week, the CBS News Program, 60 Minutes featured a report on George Church, a...

November 2019

November 22, 2019

Pennsylvania Politicians Divided Over Aborting the Disabled

In the past few days, it has been reported that the Pennsylvania House and Senate...

October 2019

October 22, 2019

Rewriting Our Genes? Prime Editing Doesn’t Resolve Moral Issues

This week, a new variation of CRISPR called "Prime Editing" has come into the spotlight....

March 2019

March 08, 2019

Assisted Suicide Passes Maryland House: A Danger for the Disabled & Elderly

Yesterday, the Maryland house of delegates passed a bill legalizing assisted suicide by 3 votes:...

February 2019

February 01, 2019

Sci-Fi from 1950 Foresaw Forced Euthanasia on Earth

Isaac Asimov wrote a sci-fi book called Pebble in the Sky in 1950. This book foresaw...

January 2019

January 29, 2019

The Devastating Effect of Euthanasia on Dutch Culture (UPDATED)

The Netherlands was one of the first countries to legalize euthanasia and doctor-assisted suicide. It has...

January 07, 2019

Human Dignity for Vegetative Patients? Rape of a Vegetative Woman

As Catholics, we understand every human has a unique dignity. Society denies dignity in many...

January 04, 2019

New York Times Criticizes the Contraceptive Mentality & More IUDs

I was surprised to see an article from the New York Times being negative about...

December 2018

December 13, 2018

Designer Babies Are Here: Let’s Not Kid Ourselves

This week, A Cecile JW Janssens, a professor of Epidemiology at Emory University, tried to argue that...

November 2018

November 21, 2018

New Tests Allow “Screening” of Low-IQ Babies

A new company called Genomics Prediction now claims to be able to test IVF babies...

August 2018

August 09, 2018

Further Down the Euthanasia Slippery Slope: 4 More Stories of Unjust Death

A few weeks back, I posted about how euthanasia and assisted suicide were a slippery slope...

July 2018

July 18, 2018

UK Bioethics Group Approves Genetic Engineering Babies: What’s Wrong With That?

In the UK, the most prestigious bioethics body has just green-lighted the genetic engineering of...

July 05, 2018

“Euthanasia Isn’t a Slippery Slope” while Evidence of a Slippery Slope Mounts (1 story UPDATED)

Before euthanasia or assisted suicide is legal, the whole debate is about people who are...

June 2018

June 16, 2018

Pope Francis Condemns Eugenic Abortions

Pope Francis has condemned the practice of Eugenic abortions in no uncertain terms. Doctors and...

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