by APFLI | Jan 30, 2016 | Cloning - Archive, Eugenics / Race-Linked Abortion / Reproductive Racism, Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
Taking Stock: Where Are We Now? Taking stock of where one is at the beginning of a new project or a new year is a good idea. Where we are in the entire realm of bioethics is beyond the scope of a mere e-newsletter, but what follows are some landmarks discernible in...
by APFLI | Jun 8, 2015 | Eugenics / Race-Linked Abortion / Reproductive Racism, Human Development, Imposed Death - Definitions / Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide / VSED
A study published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine demonstrates widespread discriminatory denial of life-preserving medical treatment to premature infants based on fear that if assisted to live they might have disabilities – in defiance of protective...
by APFLI | Jun 2, 2015 | Hard Cases - Incest / Rape / Congenital Anomalies / Life of Mother
Instead of focusing on all those who won’t be graduating because their lives were lost to abortion, I want to introduce you to Allison. Allison is a senior at Clyde High School in Abilene Texas and she just did something few people with Down syndrome do — she...
by APFLI | May 29, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
Not Dead Yet UK, launched on 12May06, is opposed to assisted suicide. Jane Campbell convened NDY UK, seeing the need for an umbrella group for the many voices in the disability community expressing fear and opposition to assisted suicide legislation. Diane Coleman is...
by APFLI | May 28, 2015 | Eugenics / Race-Linked Abortion / Reproductive Racism
Princeton University philosophy professor Peter Singer came under international condemnation when he announced he favors killing disabled babies via infanticide. Though he was blasted from both sides of the political spectrum, the so-called ethicist still holds to the...
