Secondhand Smoke and the Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity Team Up
The good people over at the Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity have asked me to comment on the CBHD blog and for permission to republish some of what I write here at Secondhand Smoke. It was my distinct pleasure to agree. So, starting now, you can also find me at bioethics.com, as well as entries from other thinkers in bioethics who support the equality of human life approach. Thanks CBHD! Your confidence means a lot.
posted by Wesley J. Smith @ 2:06 PM
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Congratulations!
This is unrelated to your news, but it's important. I think the greatest battle in euthanasia and bioethics will need to be fought with outmoded ideas on aging. I fight it all the time in my personal relationships. Here is a wonderful quote I just came across and I wanted to put it into the context of the issues you deal with so well:
"Only once did the ever-protective Mrs. Reagan protest that I can remember, putting her foot down at the notion her husband was being sent to a Western state with a same-day return to Washington. Firmly noting the president's age (75) and the fact that he was already putting in a schedule that would exhaust a man half his years, she saw to it that there would be an overnight breather at his Santa Barbara ranch, much closer indeed."
http://www.americanprowler.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=10495
Thanks, Marci. I had my differences of opinion with both Reagans (and still do, Mrs. Reagan about embryonic stem cells), but the way she took care of him when he was ill was remarkable and an example to us all.
I was not a fan of the Reagans either. The first Republican I ever voted for and came to admire greatly was George H.W. Bush. But I found this quote so interesting because of the picture it gives us of a person in his seventies. I used to tell my mom about Reagan all the time, as way to encourage her to keep on living. My mom, and many other people I have known, have a fixed notion of aging in their minds that I believe we need to dislodge. We live in strange times: we now have longer lives with better health than ever before, yet we are aggressively pursuing euthanasia. It is now okay for a woman alone to take care of a child conceived and born out of wedlock, yet we pursue abortion. It is all bizarre to me.
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