Personhood is the human rights issue of the 21st Century. Personhood will restore respect and effective legal protection for all human beings, including the unborn. It encompasses the threat of emerging issues, such as cloning, embryo experimentation and euthanasia.
In July, the American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO), the world’s leading oncology association, announced the development of a new mobile app for cancer patients. This app is not intended to ease people through the treatment process, but to create a standardized way of limiting patients’ access to innovative treatments based on costs rather than benefits to the patient. Being sick is costly. However, being alive is also costly—even funerals are costly—but when did it become acceptable...
Every 10 minutes, a person’s name is added to the organ transplant waiting list. Every day, approximately 80 people receive a new organ. Every day, almost 20 individuals die because they did not receive one. At the writing of this article, there were more than 120,000 patients on the waiting list to receive a transplant. Demand continues to exceed the supply of life-saving organs. Because of the growing shortage of available organs, many in the transplant business are calling for loosened—and...
The New York Times begins to soften us for health care rationing. "Eventually, we may well have to decide against paying for expensive treatments with only modest benefits. But given how difficult that would be for this country, it makes sense to start with the easier situations — the ones in which “no” really is the best answer for patients. " Ever heard of a QALY? Quality Adjusted Life Years is a mechanism for rationing health care. Obamacare provides a "panel" to decide on the treatments...
When Janet Sheikhan first discovered she was pregnant, she and her husband were thrilled. But then, Janet received terrible news: A test showed the baby was severely deformed. On the advice of her doctor, Janet regretfully decided to have an abortion. But when she asked to see her tiny aborted child, Janet was shocked to discover it was a perfectly-formed baby boy. Later she read the autopsy report, which confirmed the baby had not been deformed but was perfectly healthy.
The life of a baby begins long before he or she is born. A new individual human being begins at fertilization, when the sperm and ovum meet to form a single cell. If the baby's life is not interrupted, he or she will someday become an adult man or woman. Worldwide, millions of unborn babies are killed each year. In the United States alone, over 55 million unborn babies have been killed since the Roe v Wade decision of 1973.
Is human life sacred? From the very beginning the Bible reveals that it is because human beings are created in God's image (Genesis 1:27). The Bible portrays God's personal involvement in humankind's creation, and the emphasis throughout is on man's divinely imparted uniqueness as made in God's image. That divine image was distorted but not destroyed by man's fall into sin. God communicated with Adam and Eve both before sin entered the world (Genesis 1:28) ad immediately after the Fall...
Georgia has 159 counties, with each individually reporting how many abortions were performed there each year. The counties report to the Department of Public Health (DPH), who releases the statistics through their Online Analytical Statistical Information System (OASIS). We then take that data and compile it for each reporting year in an excel sheet to make reviewing the statistics a bit easier. Since 2011, DPH has only reported in-state abortion numbers - meaning that residents from other...