Assisted Suicide Moving Towards Passage?
MA bill in Health Care Finance Atty Gen Healy signals support Court oral arguments OR removes residency requirement Once again, the Joint Committee on Public Health has advanced the assisted…
Category: Bioethics
MA Assisted Suicide Update
“Bills can also be extended which is often a signal from the committee that it needs more time to consider the legislation. This is an invitation to everyone who cares about this legislation to…
Assisted Suicide and Conscience Protection
This is an article I wrote that was published in the Catholic Free Press on December 31, 2021. Yesterday was the legislative reporting deadline. Last year the bill was sent…
First, Do No Harm-Part 3
In Part 3 of my appearance with Dr. Mark Rollo, I discuss the problems with MOLST. I continue to hear from people how this form is dangerously misunderstood and misused.…
Airing Sunday on WQPH
Dr. Mark Rollo has an outstanding radio program on medical ethics that airs every Sunday on WQPH. I had the great honor and pleasure of appearing with him to discuss…
Radio Show April 30th
Hear what the series is all about! with guest Msgr. Peter Beaulieu Friday, April 30th, at 2:30 pm (following Bishop McManus) 1230AM ~ 970AM ~ 101.1FM Msgr. Beaulieu and I…
Harvard Humanists and Catholic Teaching
One pleasant surprise at the Harvard Medical School annual bioethics conference, this year on prescribed suicide, was the discussion between doctors Lachlann Forrow and Tim Quill. Originally this segment was…
Autonomy, Except for Religious Reasons
In Australia, a judge has ordered that a pregnant teenage who is a Jehovah’s Witness receive a blood transfusion should she need one when being induced to deliver her baby.…
Nature and dignity 