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by | May 27, 2023

Ali Tate’s grandmother is dying. Diagnosed with terminal cancer, she has chosen to enroll in Canada’s medical assistance in dying (MAID) program. Tate, a model and with 256,000 Instagram followers, shared several videos about her grandmother’s decision last week.  Tate’s…

by | Jan 15, 2023

During his first gubernatorial campaign, now-Gov. Gavin Newsom made a truly shocking — and horrifying — admission. Newsom told a reporter from the New Yorker that in 2002, when he was on San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors, his 55-year-old mother,…

by | Aug 26, 2022

“And bid the world Goodmorrow, and go to glory home!” – Emily Dickinson I am writing about this because it has been the only thing on my mind during the last few days. On Jan. 13, Terry Teachout, the theater…

by | May 2, 2022

In March of 2021, the Canadian Parliament passed the world’s most liberal euthanasia law. The law scrapped the previous requirement that a person’s death be foreseeable. No longer would assisted suicide hurry death along. Now, it would prescribe death to…

by | Jul 17, 2021

The nation’s largest teachers union, the National Education Association, held its annual meeting last week, and suffice it to say that the measures the delegates passed were radical.  One measure passed by the delegates warrants special attention.  The measure called…

by | Feb 10, 2021

They seem to feel a strange kind of joy in anything concerning death. Often, the only thing that sets pro-death laws apart from serial killers is that the former claim to be for your benefit. In the end, not many…

by | Aug 26, 2020

The threat of assisted suicide is a portentous issue of our day that many politicians pretend isn’t there. Republicans, in particular, have tended to hide under their desks about it. That may be because the question of legalizing doctor-prescribed death…

by | May 2, 2020

The increasing outsourcing of health-care policy to medical bureaucrats during the COVID-19 crisis illustrates the dangerous temptation to remove control over policy from democratic deliberation in favor of a technocracy, i.e., rule by “experts.” In health care, such a system…

by | Oct 17, 2019

A few years ago, a Dutch doctor attended her elderly Alzheimer’s disease patient at a nursing home. The doctor’s purpose wasn’t to examine the patient or prescribe new medicines. Rather, she was there to kill. While competent, the patient asked…

by | Oct 3, 2019

“Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion all have a double aspect — freedom of thought and freedom of action.” – Supreme Court Justice Frank Murphy Canada has become quietly authoritarian, its government and courts increasingly…

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