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Human Dignity Hangs in the balance

By Dave Andrusko Editor’s note. We are less than a month away from the 44th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision and its unacknowledged companion, Doe v. Bolton. In December we’ve largely published previously run stories about Roe and Doe, although there have been...

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Human dignity should not need defending but it does

By Wesley J. Smith Human dignity should not need defending. But Jefferson’s “self evident” truths are deemed so no longer. That’s frightening because, if nothing else, it is impossible to defend universal human rights if we don’t perceive human beings as having unique...

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There can be dignity in all states of life

  Editor’s note. This article was published in the Ottawa Citizen on October 15. By Catherine Frazee In his article of Oct. 9, Desmond Tutu emphasizes the importance of language on the sensitive issue of medically assisted dying. In the spirit of advancing a...

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Standing Against the Human “Dignity Deniers”

  By Wesley Smith God may not be dead, but considering the imago Dei [made in the image of God] in philosophical discourse and public policy certainly is. Not only that, but the rational reasons for acknowledging the exceptional dignity of humans are wrongly...

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Pushing Back Against Human “Dignity Deniers”

  By Wesley J. Smith Human dignity should not need defending. But Jefferson’s “self evident” truths are deemed so no longer. That’s frightening because, if nothing else, it is impossible to defend universal human rights if we don’t perceive human beings as having...

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Defending human dignity as the foundation of bioethics

  By Michael Cook | English barrister and medical ethicist Charles Foster has penned defence of “human dignity” as the foundation of bioethics in the Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics. He believes that it is more adequate than the reigning view that...

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