Medical Ethics

A History of Eugenics

Below are critical citations from the A History of Eugenics section of the Pillars of Personhood educational handbook. If you have additional questions about content within this section, please contact us at PersonhoodSeminar@grtl.org

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Euthanasia

Below are critical citations from the Euthanasia section of the Pillars of Personhood educational handbook. If you have additional questions about content within this section, please contact us at PersonhoodSeminar@grtl.org

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Personhood In Culture

Below are critical citations from the Personhood: In Culture section of the Pillars of Personhood educational handbook. If you have additional questions about content within this section, please contact us at PersonhoodSeminar@grtl.org Peter Singer discusses personhood Peter Singer, Unsanctifying Human Life

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Bargain Basement Abortions

March 2019 – Article 1:     Our lost and violent world thunders that life is cheap—for the pre-born and the elderly and infirm. One proof, women now proudly “shout” their abortion—shaking their fists at the God who gave them the precious gift of a child. Fueling the carnage is the sad fact that killing the pre-born is also getting easier and cheaper, thanks to several developments in telemedicine. The New Frontier – Telemedicine One of the more recent examples is “Aid Access,” the...

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Hospice: People Beware

January 2018 – Article 1:    (This is the third of several articles dealing with protecting the elderly and infirm). When a loved one is nearing the end of life, families are faced with many stressful issues, especially how to make their last days as pain free and comfortable as possible. To meet those needs, the more than 4,000 hospice care agencies throughout the country promise to provide terminally ill individuals with physical, psychological, spiritual, and emotional support. In the...

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Say It Isn’t So: Infanticide

If anyone ever needed evidence for the slippery slope oozing from legalized abortion and the degradation of the value of human life…sadly, it’s here! Two philosophy and ethics researchers recently reported that in “circumstances occur[ing] after birth such that they would have justified abortion, what we call after-birth abortion should be permissible”. Simply put, if abortion is legal then termination of the newborn should be as well.  The legalization of abortion in 1973 may ultimately be...

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Lives Touched, Changed And Saved

Pregnancy can be a scary and vulnerable time in a woman’s life.  Facing an unplanned or untimely pregnancy can be especially hard. Pregnant women need a reliable source of information before making important decisions.  She needs to understand all of her options in order to truly have a choice.  Where can she turn in her hour of need? A pregnancy resource center (PRC) offers pregnancy tests and faith based options counseling - and so much more!  Other supportive services might include...

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‘Planned’ Eugenics

This fall, Planned Parenthood gleefully announced yet another anniversary.  Ninety-seven years old and counting, Planned Parenthood began as the American Birth Control League, the brainchild of extreme leftist and known eugenicist, Margaret Sanger. Sanger's lifelong ambition was to reduce the world's population, particularly the poor and "unfit," through birth control: a plan she said would be the "salvation of American civilization”.   Other infamous remarks attributed to Margaret Sanger:...

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Beating Heart Cadavers

The National Network for Organ Donors, and other similar organizations, work to ensure that “every single person in the United States who needs a transplant gets one”.  Clearly, organ donation has changed the face of medicine for nearly 50 years, but at what cost?  No one could have envisioned the growth that transplantation science would achieve or how it would affect biomedical ethics, essentially redefining death. Beating heart cadavers, those thought to be brain dead, traditionally receive...

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