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...days in the Netherlands and across much of Europe, divisions over euthanasia have largely healed. Polls in the U.K. and France show up to 80% support for legal changes that would allow patients enduring extreme suffering from a terminal illness to request medical assistance to shorten their lives. "The consensus in the Netherlands is that we don't prolong life just because we technically can," explains Johan Legemaate, legal adviser to the Royal Dutch Medical Association. "When a treatment does not improve the patient's situation, a doctor is obliged to stop...
...People are pretty upset for obvious reasons,” said Pforzheimer House Committee President Andrew C. Stillman ’06. “But the general consensus is there is not much we can do about...
...about protecting his 6-year-old son from dirty TV, expresses that sentiment plaintively: "We have to go back to the '50s. The world is going crazy. The '50s was a great time." Perhaps decency advocates mourn not only the moral standards of the '50s but also the social consensus. Opinion about today's balkanized media is as fragmented as their audience. So who should set the standard? Parents of kids under 18? (They make up only 36% of U.S. households.) Senior citizens? That gay guy with the nipple ring...
Sullivan misses the central moral message. The consensus goal should not be to reduce the number of abortions but to reduce the number of unintended pregnancies. The sanctity of human life is best upheld when we make sure life is not created carelessly. Precisely because life and parenthood are so precious, we must ensure that no woman is coerced into carrying a pregnancy to term. We suggest working for a world in which abortion is safe, legal, accessible--and rare...
Even at that point, all might have been forgiven. For this kind of thing, believe it or not, happens all the time on the Internet -- although not usually on this scale. People make mistakes. Their errors are pointed out. The underlying issues are thrashed out. And either a consensus is reached or the combatants exhaust themselves and retire from the field...