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The lethal “ethics” of Nazi doctors

By Michael Cook German medicine under Hitler resulted in so many horrors – eugenics, human experimentation, forced sterilization, involuntary euthanasia, mass murder – that there is a temptation to say that “Nazi doctors had no ethics.” However, according to an...

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Science or Ethics?

By David Prentice, Ph.D. Does science trump ethics? Do the ends justify the means? Should some trafficking in human body parts be countenanced in society, because of potential or speculative cures? These are the questions raised in regards to the issue of fetal tissue...

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Ethics, Alzheimer’s, and feeding tubes

By Nancy Valko Editor’s note. This appeared on Nancy’s blog. In 1988 during the Nancy Cruzan case involving a young, non-terminally ill woman in a so-called “persistent vegetative state” whose parents wanted her feeding tube withdrawn so she would die, I was asked if...

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A “More Fetally Aware Society”

By Dave Andrusko The beauty of the web is that one thing leads to another to another with often times fascinating results. Such is what happened yesterday, as I was trolling for information to reply to a friend. I ran across a 2001 piece written by the late Robin...

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“Everyday Ethics” and the Pro-Life Community

By Dave Andrusko This will be a short post because, frankly, I do not have the time to do a lengthy search on what Randy Cohen has to say about abortion and the rights of religious conscience. I bring up Cohen, formerly “The Ethicist” for the New York Times, because...

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“Good Ethics Makes for Good Science”

By Wesley J. Smith Editor’s note. This fine piece ran on Wesley’s blog. Legatus magazine asked me to write a column on the stem cell issue, and so I did.  From “Good Ethics Makes for Good Science” [www.legatusmagazine.org/?p=4805]: Have you noticed that the stem-cell...

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