Bioethics

“Operation Rescue released the report Tuesday….finds that the number of surgical abortion clinics in the United States has dropped by over 35% from 713 facilities in 2009 to 458 facilities in 2020.” Clinics providing drug-induced abortions went from 131 facilities in 2009 to 248 facilities in 2020. - CPost

Video: “Today, we have many medical advances that enable us to prolong our lives. Are Christians responsible to take advantage of these technologies? Is it ever permissible to refuse them? From one of our live events, R.C. Sproul reflects on these difficult questions.” - Ligonier

Worldometer “monitors statistics on health, the global population, the use of resources and deaths in real-time, over 40 million abortions are performed worldwide annually. The website tabulates statistics on abortion made available from the World Health Organization.” - CPost

“O. Carter Snead’s What It Means to Be Human: The Case for the Body in Public Bioethics is a momentous achievement, an agenda-setting work offering a philosophically rich argument moving between important moral concepts and applied issues in bioethics. It is also a rare book from an academic press that is accessible to a general audience as well as to specialists in the field.” - Public Discourse

“Baker stated he could not approve the bill because of two main reasons: first, minors should not be allowed access to abortion without parental consent; and second, abortions at 24 weeks should be restricted only to cases where the fetus would not survive to term.” - Jurist

“I will take this vaccine as soon as it is available to me …. I will take it not only for what I hope will be the good of my own health, but for others as well.” - C.Leaders

“With Christians split on the issue, some urge vaccination as a form of neighborly love, while others leave it up to conscience.” - CToday

“A Pew Research survey across 20 countries found believers lag behind non-religious neighbors in support for the technology, with the biggest gap in the US.” - CToday

“Unless we consider the moral shape of the challenges confronting us as a society, we will be overwhelmed by the loud, often extreme voices reducing complex decisions about vaccinations to rival narratives that pit individual sovereignty against state authority.

“…doctors are allowed to execute—murder—their patients and ‘it is no longer necessary for the doctor to agree with the patient when or how euthanasia will be administered’ if the patient has dementia or a similar medical condition.” - AiG