Word: euthanasia
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...Pope John Paul II, a moral theologian much admired by the very Anabaptist Methodist Hauerwas. Hauerwas recently argued that in a human future he believes will be bleak, Christians should be known as "those peculiar people who don't kill their babies [through abortion] or their old people [through euthanasia...
...kind, if not poetic, things to say about all eight of the latest films on her site - and this in a summer when films liked "America?s Sweethearts" (which she gives 2-1/2 stars) and "Cats & Dogs" (2-1/2 stars) are begging for some form of critical euthanasia. But Skrzyniarz thinks "real" critics are soiled. "A lot of people feel the major studios run the critics," she says, "that professional critics are studio shills." (Take it from one of those shills: if we are in the filmmakers? pockets, then we?re the lint...
...sense, ethically new. Although The Boys From Brazil predates Dolly the sheep by almost two decades, it wasn’t until 1997—when the technology for human cloning seemed within reach—that the social and ethical debate was seriously joined. Abortion and euthanasia are also difficult issues, but at this point the detailed positions on them have been thought through, and arguments detailed enough to withstand some questioning can be referred to by shorthand. The ethical debate on cloning isn’t settled—in fact, the opposing camps aren?...
Your article "A License To Kill," about the legalization of euthanasia in the Netherlands, compared that law with Oregon's Death with Dignity Act [ETHICS, April 23]. As one of the principal drafters of the Oregon law, I would like to set the record straight. Contrary to what the story's graphic indicated, "mercy killing" is expressly prohibited in Oregon. Oregon's law is narrowly tailored to allow only competent, terminally ill adult patients the option to hasten an imminent and difficult death. No one else may make this decision for the patient. There are far more differences than similarities...
...Oregon's euthanasia law notwithstanding, the Dutch have taken the lead in laws that govern euthanasia. The U.S., at best, can only follow the Netherlands' lead. With a few safeguards legally in place, all people should have the right to life and, conversely, the right to death when and where they choose. PETER MORRISON Chicago...