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By Wesley J. Smith Back in 1993, my first anti-euthanasia piece, published in Newsweek, warned that if we legalized assisted suicide, organ harvesting would eventually be included as a “plum to society.” “Alarmist!” my hate mail screeched. “Slippery slope fallacy!”...
By Wesley J. Smith A little good news: Legalizing euthanasia for the mentally ill in Canada has been pushed back again, not because authorities think it is ethically twisted, profoundly negligent, and morally wrong — all of which are true — but because there are...
By Wesley J. Smith The shortage of organs for transplantation is threatening to unleash immoral and unethical remedies. A terrible story out of Belgium illustrates the peril. A 16-year-old girl with a brain tumor asked to be euthanized and have her organs...
By John Stonestreet with Roberto Rivera Last week, as the world focused attention on the Hong Kong protests, a report came out that gruesomely underscored why the protesters felt led to protest. The report, issued by a London-based panel of international and medical...
By Wesley J. Smith In the China tyranny, political prisoners such as Falon Gong practitioners, are tissue typed, killed, and harvested. Their organs are sold for exorbitant prices to desperate people who travel to China to save their own lives at the cost of...
By Dave Andrusko There we were last night watching Fox News when we learned Fox News had obtained a letter sent by Justice Department Assistant Attorney General for Legislative Affairs Stephen Boyd to the Senate Judiciary Committee formally requested unredacted...
By Dave Andrusko The photos in the New York Post (even if only simulated) are blood curdling. Along with the accompanying story, they are the most recent reminder of “The grim reality of human organ harvesting in China.” (The article originated elsewhere and was...
By Wesley J. Smith This isn’t happening here–yet. But many in organ transplant medicine and bioethics want permission to kill the profoundly cognitively disabled for their organs, either by lethal injection and then harvesting, or by the process itself. The latest...
By Xavier Symons Criticism of alleged forced organ harvesting in China reached fever pitch last week as the 26th International Congress of The Transplantation Society convened for the first time on Chinese soil. The Congress, which opened in Hong Kong on Wednesday,...
By Michael Cook The issue of harvesting organs from political prisoners in China to supply the country’s more than 160 transplant centres is not just controversial, but explosive. So it is a bit odd that an article in the Journal of Medical Ethics (JME)published...