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By Wesley J. Smith The attacks on the dead donor rule--which requires death as a precondition of donating vital organs--are continuing in the world’s most prestigious medical and bioethical journals. Take the New England Journal of Medicine, which has just published...
By Paul Russell Editor’s note. While my family and I are on vacation, we are running some of our favorite NRL News Today stories from the last four months, entries from our “Roe at 40" series, and an occasional update. Paul Russell heads “HOPE,” an Australian...
By Wesley J. Smith I have been warning against coupling assisted suicide with organ harvesting since 1993, when I wrote my first anti-assisted suicide column in Newsweek. From, “The Whispers of Strangers:” Life is action and reaction, the proverbial pebble thrown into...
By Wesley J. Smith I have been warning for several years that many in bioethics and the organ transplant community hope to legalize killing for organs, that is, taking organs from the living. The latest example comes in the Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics by...
By Wesley J. Smith There are two protocols for donating vital organs after death. One involves brain death, and one involves removing life support, waiting for cardiac arrest, and then procuring organs after a few minutes. This post deals with the latter. I have...
By Dr. Peter Saunders Editor’s note. Dr. Saunders is a former general surgeon and is CEO of Christian Medical Fellowship, a UK-based organization with 4,500 UK doctors and 1,000 medical students as members. According to a recent report Belgium is now the ‘world...
By Wesley J. Smith Here we go again! The push to transform the most ill and disabled living human bodies into so many organ farms continues among some bioethicists and within organ transplant ethical discourse. Now, an article in the American Journal of Bioethics,...
By Dave Andrusko It’s a story that ought to send a chill up and down your spine. As doctors broached the topic of organ donation with the family of Sam Schmid, the 21-year-old college student “began to respond, holding up two fingers on command,” reports Susan...