Margaret Somerville
Withdrawing artificial hydration and nutrition can be ethically complex 23 Mar 2020 | FEATURES |
tags: artificial nutrition and hydration, bioethics, end of life ethics, euthanasiaSupporters of euthanasia can twist cases to their advantageA baby is not a handbag 19 Nov 2019 | FEATURES |
tags: bioethics, three-parent babies, three-parent embryosThe intentions of scientists designing babies with three genetic parents may be good but the procedure is still unethicalCanada’s euthanasia philosophy: ‘control, choice and change’ 25 Oct 2019 | CAREFUL! |
tags: bioethics, Canada, euthanaiaIt may take many generations to realise the damage that 'Medical Aid in Dying" will do‘Act in haste, repent at leisure’ 21 Aug 2019 | FEATURES |
tags: abortion, New South WalesThe sad saga of the process of “reforming” the NSW law on abortionSearching for personal identity in a post-modern society: 25 Jul 2019 | FEATURES |
tags: community, conservatism, individualism, progressivismClues from four disparate events‘The only thing we have to fear is fear itself’ 15 Jul 2019 | FEATURES |
tags: fear, risk, uncertaintyFDR's famous phrase was truer than he realisedThe passing of a spiritual giant 13 May 2019 | FEATURES |
tags: disabilities, Jean VanierCanada's Jean Vanier lived an inspiring life of advocacy for the disabledCan doctors be ‘neutral’ about assisted suicide and euthanasia? 14 Feb 2019 | CAREFUL! |
tags: assisted suicide, BMJ, Canada, United KingdomA leading medical association in the UK is polling its members about a change in policyOur exhilarating, messy, crowded, joyful Christmas 7 Jan 2019 | ABOVE |
tags: Christmas, secularization, sex abuse scandalDeep Christian devotion is hidden beneath secularisation and scandalThe Canadian euthanasia express rolls on 9 Nov 2018 | CAREFUL! |
tags: assisted suicide, Audrey Parker, Australia, Canada, euthanasia, VictoriaThe right to life can be flipped into a right to die
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