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Bioethics Think Tank: Defy ICE!

Originally published at National Review
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Bioethics
Health Care

The American people voted for President Trump, in large part, because they want immigration law to be enforced across all of society. But many bioethicists think that health-care institutions should be uncooperative.

The Hastings Center is a core offender. It has just published its second major call in two months urging hospitals to defy ICE whenever legally possible. From "Plan, Safeguard, Care: An Ethical Framework for Health Care Institutions Responding to Immigrant Enforcement Actions":

There have been several recent efforts to outline the ethical duties of hospitals and other health care settings on how to respond to actions by Immigration and Customs Enforcement or other authorities concerning immigration enforcement in these settings. Here, we synthesize and build on those efforts, drawing on prior work by The Hastings Center, to create a practical ethical framework for health care institutions.

And what is that "ethical framework"?

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Wesley J. Smith

Chair and Senior Fellow, Center on Human Exceptionalism
Wesley J. Smith is Chair and Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute’s Center on Human Exceptionalism. Wesley is a contributor to National Review and is the author of 14 books, in recent years focusing on human dignity, liberty, and equality. Wesley has been recognized as one of America’s premier public intellectuals on bioethics by National Journal and has been honored by the Human Life Foundation as a “Great Defender of Life” for his work against suicide and euthanasia. Wesley’s most recent book is Culture of Death: The Age of “Do Harm” Medicine, a warning about the dangers to patients of the modern bioethics movement.