🎧⤵️ In Canada, it's easier to be killed by a doctor than to get treatment for serious conditions. @theWesleyJSmith speaks with Alex Schadenberg about this sad reality.

I joined @toddwilken on @IssuesEtc taking a plank to the idea that secular #bioethics has become a "moral tradition" that should take the lead. No, it's primarily just subjective opinion. Often political.

My latest: When it comes to babies, all ethical boundaries are being obliterated as reproductive technologists manipulate the creation of new human life to fulfill any parental desire, no matter how extreme or socially destabilizing. https://t.co/pooKumhs9C via @epochtimes

The authors say that disagreement is part of the #bioethics moral tradition. Really? Funny, when Leon Kass was chosen by President George W. Bush to lead the President’s Council on Bioethics, many mainstream voices in the field threw a fit.

Bioethics as a “moral tradition” would be a means of imposing secular hegemony over our public health policies, medical ethics, and patient choices. That won’t happen if we always remember that the so-called tradition is, in reality, just opinion.

My latest: The entire premise excludes the moral influence of religion — which is a much deeper tradition with a far longer history. Moreover, some of the most vibrant minds arguing against mainstream views — such as @CCamosy, would be excluded.

When ideology drives professional discourse, how can we fully trust the published studies as objective or have confidence that scholarly reports reaching contrary conclusions to the beliefs of the editors will not be rejected based on politics alone?

Zero attempt to understand the reasons people might be turning right. No mention of the harm caused by gender ideologues. Not a word about the Muslim rape gangs and the cover up by law enforcement and politicians that amounted to complicity.

My latest: Here’s a suggestion for @TheLancet and other professional journals: Publish more objective science and fewer political screeds. That — not DEI — is the best path to restoring public trust, advancing public health, and furthering social comity.

About to discuss this column with @LarsLarsonShow. When it comes to babies, all ethical boundaries are being erased.

Soon after legalization, the vaunted protections are redefined by activists and the media as “barriers” to death, which become the pretext for loosening the already slack guidelines. The speed at which that happens varies, but the pattern rarely fails.

In Canada, a person is supposed to explicitly request and consent to being killed by a lethal jab. But a dementia patient was recently euthanized at the request of her family.

Euthanasia becomes the easier path once we objectify the lives of patients and demote them from full equality into a killable caste.

My latest: Legalizing euthanasia/assisted suicide profoundly changes societal values at a fundamental level. Canada is our closest cultural cousin. Cultural devolution will happen here, too, if we don’t hit the brakes on legalizing assisted suicide.

Resources are being invested at an astounding level in radical reproductive technologies. Now, researchers have created human eggs from skin cells and successfully fertilized some of them with IVF.

"In other words, populist conservative political thought is a virulence." The latest from @theWesleyJSmith ⤵️ https://t.co/7DO631xJMM

"These patients are so vulnerable and what they think or feel one minute changes dramatically in the next." From @theWesleyJSmith ⤵️ https://t.co/4fMpKU5KQV

Why should everyone be anti-abortion regardless of religious beliefs, political beliefs, or any other positions they take on other issues? Episode 2 with Monica Snyder of @secularprolife is out now! https://t.co/6ExRb88D0L #ProLife #bioethics #AtheistProLife, #AbortionDebate,

"When it comes to babies, all ethical boundaries are being erased," writes @theWesleyJSmith ⤵️ https://t.co/1JZtrensyN

Think of the effort and expense that using this technique would involve, at minimum: Turning the skin cells into eggs Testing for viability Fertilizing the eggs Preimplantation genetic diagnosis If the want-to-be-parents were men, hiring a surrogate

How would “safety” be tested?  Wouldn’t it require the mass manufacture of embryos, and pregnancies created, studied, & not brought to term? Or would we wing it, cross our fingers that all works out well? Do we really want to treat human life so crassly?