Note from the Editors: Last weekend, Dr. Kristin Collier, an assistant professor of medicine at University of Michigan Medical School, delivered the keynote address for the school’s white coat ceremony—an event that marks the start of medical studies for the entering class. Members of the
The Catholic Medical Association, a national group with a membership of 2,400, has condemned a rule the Biden Administration is proposing as being “coercive” and a “clear violation of First Amendment protections.” Rule 1557, issued Monday, would force medical professionals to perform procedures such as
The parents of 12-year-old Archie Battersbee have lost an appeal against a decision to remove their son from life support. The U.K. Court of Appeal judges ruled on July 25 that the youngster could be disconnected from a ventilator. On April 7, 2022, Archie was found
Kristin Collier, MD, has a lot of interesting jobs. She is an assistant professor of internal medicine at the University of Michigan, and the director of UM Medical School’s Program on Health, Spirituality and Religion. Collier also serves as an associate program director of the
Vice President Kamala Harris, who “takes stuff seriously”, has offered a supposedly serious argument against Dobbs. Harris on Monday compared the recent Supreme Court ruling overturning a constitutional right to abortion to America’s history of slavery, saying “our country has a history of claiming ownership over human bodies.” Harris’ scathing analogy
New South Wales has become the sixth and final Australian state to legalize euthanasia and assisted suicide. Its legislation forces health care and elder care organizations with religious objections to allow the practice on their premises. “If a civilization is to be judged by how
I have often argued that, as a matter of logic and intuition, the widespread legalization of assisted suicide will increase both the rate of assisted suicides and the rate of unassisted suicides. After all, many people conflate what is “legal” with what is “right.” Once
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is expected soon to issue regulations rolling back medical conscience protections and coercing unethical procedures that are harmful for patients. These new regulations are consistent with prior HHS actions during the current presidential administration that undermine medical conscience rights.
Oregon, the first U.S. state to legalize physician-assisted suicide, is now welcoming terminally ill non-residents across state lines in order to end their lives. The state announced that it will no longer enforce a requirement that people have to be residents of the state in
So-called “Christian transhumanism,” or the attempt to blend the transhumanist agenda with the precepts of Christian theology, has been around for some time. But there has been a recent resurgence of interest in the project. The book Religious Transhumanism and Its Critics, published in 2019, claims to offer
