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Mon 7 Jun, 2010

Organ Donation: Act of Charity or Abuse of Human Dignity?

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New York has passed a law that automatically makes every citizen an organ donor unless you opt out. This law raises serious questions about the morality of organ donation, and especially of how free will comes into play. The protection of human dignity and the value of every human life are key principles at stake here. Continue reading

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Mon 9 Mar, 2009

Counting the Cost: More Babies Dead

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Catholic voters who chose Barak Obama as president must really be kicking themselves (one would hope). While the president has done some good things so far, the death toll continues to mount. This morning President Obama overturned President Bush’s ban on using federal funding for research into embryonic stem cell research.

Once again, the great orator couches his decision in terms that make the opposition unreasonable and self-serving, stating… Continue reading

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Mon 26 Jan, 2009

More on Human Organ Commerce

Comments (0) Filed under: Abortion, Human Dignity, Medical Ethics, Worldviews

The March, 2008, issue of First Things ran an excellent opinion piece by Gilbert Meilaender called The Giving and Taking of Organs. Meilaender quotes Paul Ramsey, whose The Patient as Person explored the moral ramifications of organ donation when the technology was still young. Ramsey (and Meilaender) explored three possible modes of receiving donated organs:

  1. Voluntary organ donation (opt-in)
  2. Automatic organ donation with an opt-out option
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Mon 12 Jan, 2009

Hearts for Sale!

Comments (4) Filed under: Culture of Life, Human Dignity, Medical Ethics, Society, Transcendent Goods, Truth, Worldviews

Bill Steigerwald is urging Barak Obama to legalize the international sale of human organs. In his arguments, he claims that medical ethicists live in ivory towers, out of touch with real-world suffering. The reality is that utilitarians who devalue transcendent goods and embrace only tangible goods live in a fantasy world and ignore the devastation that their derision of human dignity brings to our culture. Continue reading

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Fri 24 Oct, 2008

Cold-Hearted Medical Professionals

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Has in vitro fertilization contributed to our callousness toward newly conceived human babies? These advertisements in professional medical journals leave little doubt. The medical community has become cold-hearted toward the creation of new life and our culture is feeling the effects. Continue reading

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