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Category: Bioethics

Posted on February 5, 2022February 5, 2022

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…

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Posted on July 24, 2021July 24, 2021

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.…

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Posted on July 9, 2021July 17, 2021

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…

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Posted on April 21, 2021April 25, 2021

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…

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Posted on April 12, 2019July 9, 2021

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…

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Posted on January 19, 2019June 6, 2020

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.…

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Posted on December 20, 2017

Advance Directives as a Road to Euthanasia

Italy recently passed a law permitting citizens to create living wills, a type of advance directive, with differing perspectives reported in the New York Times and The Tablet.   The law…

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Posted on August 14, 2016February 1, 2019

Jerome Lejeune and End-of-Life Care

In 1969, Jerome Lejeune became the 5th recipient of the William Allan Award of the American Society of Human Genetics, the highest honor a scientist can receive in the field of genetics.  He…

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