A Hard Truth: IVF is Not Moral

Posted: January 24, 2020
By: R. J. Snell, Ph.D.

In the past days, several news outlets have noted the “demographic bomb” facing much of Europe. With below-replacement rates of fertility, many European countries risk an acute shortage of workers and tax-payers needed to sustain their economies and the welfare … Read

No Religion Needed: The Moral Horror of Assisted Suicide

Posted: December 27, 2019
By: R. J. Snell, Ph.D.

In the past few days, there has been a dispute within Roman Catholic circles over comments made by Italian Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia concerning his willingness to accompany a person undergoing assisted suicide. Other leaders of the Church took quite a … Read

Google and Violating Patients’ Privacy: It’s Worse Than It Appears

Posted: November 27, 2019
By: R. J. Snell, Ph.D.

Even though the phrase “do no harm” doesn’t actually appear in the Hippocratic Oath, there’s something Hippocratic about Google’s “unofficial motto” and corporate conduct code, “don’t be evil.” Or, at least, until Google jettisoned the phrase from its code in … Read

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