Comments for The Bioethics Gang: Testing the Limits Again at http://www.thecatholicthing.org , comment 1 to 5 out of 5 comments http://www.thecatholicthing.org Thu, 23 May 2013 01:28:28 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/the-bioethics-gang-testing-the-limits-again.html#comment-10359 In a familiar law school hypthetical, the pregnant wife has fallen into a coma. Included in the fact pattern was the methodical preparations the couple made for the birth, including a nursery. I said that the facts at the very least argued that terminating her pregnancy was something the now silent woman might not want. While the instructor stood by, her arms folded and her mouth closed, my classmates literally shouted me down: "That's just your opinon!" In that law school and I suspect in 99 percent of others, the default position is always abortion. In this case, although I was not a Catholic at the time, in the small class I knew there was one Catholic and one evangelical. Both said nothing. I simply cannot wrap my head around the president's world view. What do you teach your two daughters? How do you sleep at night? And why do you call yourself a Christian? To read these things may be for me a potential occasion of sin. I despair for this country. - Graham Combs Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:28:33 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/the-bioethics-gang-testing-the-limits-again.html#comment-10358 Alberto Giubilini presenting at the St. Cross Seminar at Oxford during January 2012. "The question "why is euthanasia morally problematic?" is twofold... I will argue that a) "euthanasia" is defined by the intention to bring about a patient's death, rather than by its being an active killing, and b) the distinction between what is intentional and what is not does not represent, by itself, the morally problematic reason against euthanasia. Finally, I will clarify this expression, "by itself", by indicating the circumstances in which the intention to bring about a patient's death can become morally problematic. Such clarification will allow me to put forward the thesis that there is no sound moral reason against euthanasia." - Matt Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:01:56 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/the-bioethics-gang-testing-the-limits-again.html#comment-10357 Great analysis. This is another hole in the pro-abortion's denial of life in the womb. This is also why Rick Santorum would be a much stronger candidate against Obama than Romney. Romney has no social platform to stand on. - Jim K Tue, 13 Mar 2012 13:06:18 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/the-bioethics-gang-testing-the-limits-again.html#comment-10353 True conservatives saw through this faithful-citizenship fogging of the electorate, abetted by the Republicrats who are united under Soros with the Democrats. Look for more of this to come in 2012, even under the aegis of Santorum. Like Bush, he poses as a prolife conservative, but will duck under for statism when "the team" calls for it. This article tries to make the BAIPA into a kind of hallowed legislation, but it should be acknowledged that banning infanticide is actually pretty low-hanging fruit. Ironic that Hyde, with his rape-incest exceptions, is being critiqued for opposing the incrementalism of BAIPA. This year, the 40th under Roe v. Wade, perhaps we can finally try staring abortion right in the eye like we finally did slavery? No more half-measures, if abortion is murder, so be it. Instead of coming back to do the March for Life every year just like "Groundhog Day", then we might birth a "Gestation Proclamation" that finally squared us with the Declaration of Independence. - Sue Tue, 13 Mar 2012 05:31:43 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/the-bioethics-gang-testing-the-limits-again.html#comment-10351 "the only national Democrat who opposed the Born-Alive Act." And why was this fact ignored by Conservatives and Pro-lifes in 2008? Why did they waste time and energy and sow confusion on Torture? - Gian Mon, 12 Mar 2012 21:30:55 +0100