What Does Coercion Look Like?
“You hold her down and I’ll give her the drink.” “Your condition is not worth treating. Let’s start the Medical Aid in Dying process.” This may be what people think…
AMA Remains Opposed to Assisted Suicide
Physician-assisted suicide is “fundamentally incompatible with the physician’s role as healer.” That is the position the AMA still holds despite the rather dramatic pleas from those seeking a position of “engaged…
Muddy Waters of Autonomy, Consent, and Faith
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.…
“Fraud” in Medicine
One bioethicist who would like to see people more frequently denied healthcare that he deems “futile” is up in arms because in “a new study, researchers found that zero physicians…
St. Maximilian Kolbe and Euthanasia
During morning Mass on August 14th, the feast day of St. Maximilian Kolbe, I listened to the priest recount the story of his death at Auschwitz. I knew the story…
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s Legacy of Eugenics and Racism Can’t Be Ignored
By John P. Slattery. May 21, 2018. Original post in Religion Dispatches After Bishop Michael Bruce Curry delivered his sermon at today’s wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, many observers…
Seasons of Caring
I sit here waiting for Mom at Dana Farber Cancer Institute. As we make our way from the lab to the doctor’s station to the transfusion suite, I see so…
Fatal Flaws Event A Success
Photo credit: Catherine Adair Over 250 people came to see Fatal Flaws at Assumption College in Worcester on May 17th and to hear Bishop McManus lead the panel in discussing…
Nature and dignity 