Humanize | From Discovery Institute's Center on Human Exceptionalism

Organ transplantation medical professional in a rush

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 12, 2024

Categorized
Bioethics, Health Care

Tagged
, bioethics, British Medical Journal, Cornell Living Donor Kidney Center, Dylan Walsh, Jacob M. Appel, kidney donation, kidney transplant, live donors, live kidney donation, New York Times, organ donation, organ donor, organ transplant, Wesley J. Smith}

A Market in Human Kidneys Is a Bad Idea

_{Wesley J. Smith

April 12, 2024

Bioethics, Health Care}

It is sometimes said that desperate circumstances require desperate measures. But desperation can also lead to the exploitation of the vulnerable. Such would be the case if we created a market in live-donation human kidneys. Read More ›

Close-up of scrub nurse taking medical instruments

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post

Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 8, 2024

Categorized
Health Care, Patient Care, Transgenderism

Tagged
, amputation, BIID, bioethics, Body Identity Integrity Disorder, LGBT, medical establishment, mutilation, national review, Quebec, radical individualism, self-identity, social contagion, technocracy, transable, Transgenderism, transhumanists, Wesley J. Smith}

What Comes after Transgender? Doctor Amputates Man’s Healthy Fingers

_{Wesley J. Smith

April 8, 2024

Health Care, Patient Care, Transgenderism}

I have long predicted that normalizing transgender surgeries would be followed eventually by doctors intentionally disabling patients with Body Identity Integrity Disorder (BIID). Well, here it comes. A doctor in Quebec "treated" a BIID patient by amputating two of his healthy fingers. Read More ›

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podcast

Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 8, 2024

Tagged
, assisted suicide, Disability, euthanasia, Governor General's Medal, Human Life Matters, Mark Davis Pickup, Mark Pickup, Monsignor Bill Irwin Award for Ethical Excellence, multiple sclerosis, suffering, U.S. National Right to Life Prayer Breakfast, Wesley J. Smith}

Mark Davis Pickup on Living with Intense Suffering and Experiencing a Miraculous Healing

_{Mark Davis Pickup

April 8, 2024}

We live in a time in which eliminating suffering is considered by many to be society’s ultimate purpose. Too often, this leads to policies that eliminate suffering by eliminating the sufferer. Still, for those not experiencing intense pain or anguish, arguing for improved care instead of increased access to assisted suicide or euthanasia can seem like a blithe platitude. “If Read More ›

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post

Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 5, 2024

Categorized
Health Care, Transgenderism

Tagged
, Archives of Sexual Behavior, gender confusion, Gender Ideology, Gender-Affirming Care, gender-affirming surgery, mental health, Puberty Blockers, transgender, Wesley J. Smith}

Study: Most Gender-Confused Children become Gender-Conforming Adults

_{Wesley J. Smith

April 5, 2024

Health Care, Transgenderism}

A new study has found that almost all children who experience gender confusion grow out of it as they age into adulthood. By the time gender-non-contented children are adults, of the 21-22 percent experiencing gender distress, all but 2 percent grew out of it. Read More ›

Lonely sad elderly Senior person in wheelchair in nursing home looking out window. Generation AI

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post

Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 3, 2024

Categorized
Euthanasia, Human Dignity, Suicide by Physician

Tagged
, assisted dying, assisted suicide, burden, Dementia, Disability, duty to die, elderly, euthanasia, health care, illness, infirmity, Matthew Parris, old age, suffering, terminally ill, Times of London, We Can't Afford a Taboo on Assisted Dying, Wesley J. Smith}

Normalizing Assisted Suicide Will Lead to a Duty to Die

_{Wesley J. Smith

April 3, 2024

Euthanasia, Human Dignity, Suicide by Physician}

Euthanasia isn't really about compassion but fear of decline and a loathing of dependency — and of those experiencing them. That nasty truth has become abundantly clear with a new column published in the Times of London. Read More ›

doctor with a stethoscope and a world globe.

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post

Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 28, 2024

Categorized
Health Care, Human Rights

Tagged
, Anthony Fauci, Climate Change, farmers, fossil fuels, health emergency, Human Rights Economy, pandemic, right to health, rule by experts, technocracy, Wesley J. Smith, WHO, World Health Organization}

Beware the “Right to Health”

_{Wesley J. Smith

March 28, 2024

Health Care, Human Rights}

Health and wellness are becoming the primary justifications for international technocracy, or "rule by experts." Indeed, we are told that preventing the next pandemic will require that the World Health Organization be given the power to declare pandemics and impose emergency policies internationally. Read More ›

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Author
Arina O. Grossu

Date
March 26, 2024

Categorized
Bioethics

Tagged
, Alabama, Alabama Supreme Court, Arina Grossu, embryos, frozen embryos, human embryos, in vitro fertilization, infertility, IVF, IVF clinics, LePage v. Center for Reproductive Medicine, Religious Freedom Restoration Act}

IVF Isn’t the Pro-Life Option for Addressing Fertility Issues

_{Arina O. Grossu

March 26, 2024

Bioethics}

A bill proposed by Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., is far too extreme since it contains a sweeping definition of "assisted reproductive technology," which goes beyond the deregulation of the IVF industry, and would legalize human cloning, surrogacy, gene editing, human-animal chimera hybrids, and other abuses of human embryos. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 22, 2024

Categorized
Health Care, Transgenderism

Tagged
, de-transitioners, Environmental Progress, gender, gender affirmation, gender confusion, Gender Dysphoria, gender identity, Gender-Affirming Care, gender-affirming surgery, mental health, Mia Hughes, National Health Service, NHS, Puberty Blockers, social authoritarianism, Wesley J. Smith, World Professional Association for Transgender Health, WPATH}

“Gender Science” Was Merely Ideology All Along

_{Wesley J. Smith

March 22, 2024

Health Care, Transgenderism}

Did you hear the news? England's National Health Service (NHS) has decided that children diagnosed with gender dysphoria will no longer receive puberty blockers because "there is not enough evidence to support the safety or clinical effectiveness . . . to make the treatment routinely available at this time." Read More ›

An empty hospital bed with dying flowers.

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post

Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 21, 2024

Categorized
Euthanasia, Human Dignity, Suicide by Physician

Tagged
, assisted suicide, Belgium, Canada, cancer, Compassion and Choices, death activists, Disability, Doctors, elderly, end of life, euthanasia, healthcare, Hemlock Society, human dignity, intellectual disabilities, lethal injection, MAiD, medical aid in dying, medicalized killing, mental health support, mental illness, Netherlands, organ donation, organ harvesting, patients, PTSD, quality of life, suffering, suicide, suicide prevention, terminal illness, terminally ill, Trillium, Trillium Gift of Life Network, Wesley J. Smith}

Euthanasia Poisons People and Societies

_{Wesley J. Smith

March 21, 2024

Euthanasia, Human Dignity, Suicide by Physician}

Most of the media report on euthanasia in the glowing, uncritical language of empowered patients "dying peacefully on their own terms." In contrast, euthanasia abuses and horror stories—an ever-growing list—generally receive little focused media attention and remain outside the notice of people not engaged with the issue. Read More ›

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post

Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 18, 2024

Categorized
Euthanasia

Tagged
, Alzheimer's, assisted suicide, Charles Camosy, euthanasia, Hal Malchow, Politico, Switzerland, World Health Organization}

Politico Promotes a Suicide

_{Wesley J. Smith

March 18, 2024

Euthanasia}

Politico has published a long story about a big-time political consultant named Hal Malchow who is flying to Switzerland to become dead in one of the country's notorious suicide clinics. Read More ›