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Brave New Bioethics

My podcast in which I discuss issues relating to human exceptionalsism, bioethics, and everything else we consder here at Secondhand Smoke.

The Discovery Institute

My controversial think tank. See what the fuss is all about.

The International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide

The best single source for information on euthanasia and assisted suicide, with an opposing perspective.

The Center for Bioethics and the Culture (CBC)

Equipping people of traditional Judeo/Christian faith to understand the importance of bioethics and biotechnology.

The Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity (CBHD)

The Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity exists to help individuals and organizations address the pressing bioethical challenges of our day, including managed care, end-of-life treatment, genetic intervention, euthanasia, and reproductive technologies (from a distinctly Christian perspective).

Bioethics.com

Your global information source on bioethics news and issues.

Choosing Tomorrow

Nigel Cameron's blog on "emerging technologies," in which the bioethicist strives to help forge "consensus and stability as we move into the Techno Century."

Bioethics Defense Fund

A bioethics law and policy organization whose mission is address the human rights violations involved in contemporary bioethical issues.

Euthanasia Prevention Coalition

The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition (Canada) prepares a broadly based network of groups and individuals as an effective social barrier against euthanasia and assisted suicide.

Euthanasia.com

A very thorough, well organized, and easily accessed on-line research library stocked with articles and primary source materials about euthanasia, assisted suicide, and related issues, from an opposing perspective.

The Human Future

Jennifer Lahl's blog about the Brave New World

Hands Off Our Ovaries

Pro choice and pro life feminists protecting women in biotechnological research.

Human Life Matters

The blog of Mark Pickup. Disability rights and pro life advocacy from a committed Christian whose "views stand in stark contrast with a world of utility, autonomy and cost-benefit-analysis."

Compassionate Healthcare Network (CHN)

CHN provides educational services through all forms of media to all persons regarding the inherent absolute value of all human life.

The Center for Genetics and Society

Left leaning think tank supports benign medical applications of the new human genetic and reproductive technologies, while opposing the commidification of human life.

The Altered Nuclear Transfer (ANT) Website

A Website dedicated to answering questions about this potential alternative to embryonic stem cell resesearch.

The Terri Schindler-Sciavo Foundation

Run by Terri Schiavo's parents and siblings, "a non-profit group dedicated to ensuring the rights of disabled, elderly and vulnerable citizens against care rationing, euthanasia and medical killing."

Not Dead Yet

Disability Rights activism, raw and to the point.

Physicians for Compassionate Care

PCC promotes compassionate care for severely-ill patients without sanctioning or assisting their suicide. Members affirm an ethic based on the principle that all human life is inherently valuable.

Center for Consumer Freedom

The Center for Consumer Freedom is PETA's worst nightmare. This scrappy, industry funded, non profit, tells the terrible truth about the animal liberation movement.

Americans for Medical Progress

A non-profit organizatoin whose mission is to promote public understanding of and support for the appropriate role of animals in biomedical research.

blog.bioethics.net

Mainstream bioethics thinking: enter at your own risk!

National Catholic Bioethics Center

Bioethics research and advocacy from the Catholic side of the street.

BioEdge

A good, objective source of information about bioethics and biotech.

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Tuesday, May 06, 2008

Texas Representative Garnet Coleman: Installed in Hall of Shame

I just did an entry on a new Texas futile care lawsuit involving a girl named Sabrina Murray who was apparently threatened with a futile care termination by a Houston hospital, resulting now in litigation. But I had to reserve this entry for a quote from the author of the futile care law, Garnet Coleman (D-Houston). Sabrina's parents believe that the attempt to deny her care was part of a plan to cover up medical malpractice. Of course, I can't take a position on that--although it is certainly not the first time such a scenario seemed possible--but this crass quote Coleman gave to the Houston Press about the matter:

State Representative Garnet Coleman, (D-Houston), who helped author the 1999 act, tends to agree with Fine. When asked if he thinks the law is sometimes used to bury malpractice, he says, "I would hope not, and that's why we have autopsies. I don't think that the law either encourages it and I don't think that it discourages it. As long as you've had an autopsy, then you would find out what was the cause of death and whether there was a medical error."

"That's why we have autopsies:" I thought I had heard it all. Of course, the reason for the autopsy might be Coleman's terrible law.

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Blogger The Fergusons said...

This is not surprising, as Garnet Coleman is the son of a man who was one of the most notorious abortionists in Houston. He was seen being wheeled into his "clinic" on oxygen the day he died to do abortions.

May 08, 2008  
Blogger JacqueFromTexas said...

Fine, Mayo and Coleman= a trifecta of evil.

May 09, 2008  

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