Bioethics

NEUROLOGIST DISCUSSES EFFORTS TO REDEFINE DEATH

Board-certified neurologist Christopher DeCock, MD, joins Joe Zalot to discuss how proposed changes to the Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA) could change the legal definition of brain death. Recording and additional resources available here: https://www.ncbcenter.org/bioethics-on-air-podcast-cms/bioethics-on-air-episode-109-redefining-death-by-revising-the-udda FOLLOW-UP INTERVIEW: Neurologist Christopher DeCock, MD, rejoins Joe Zalot to update listeners on efforts to redefine death by revising …

NEUROLOGIST DISCUSSES EFFORTS TO REDEFINE DEATH Read More »

HALF THE TIME DOCTORS SAY PATIENTS ARE IN A “VEGETATIVE STATE,” THEY’RE ACTUALLY WRONG

According to the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), one in eight death row inmates is found to be wrongly convicted. In other words, there is close to a 13% chance that a prisoner scheduled to be executed is innocent. Advocacy groups like EJI are dedicated to ending the death penalty based on this injustice—the risk of …

HALF THE TIME DOCTORS SAY PATIENTS ARE IN A “VEGETATIVE STATE,” THEY’RE ACTUALLY WRONG Read More »

HHS PROPOSED RULE 1557

Christ Medicus Foundation Submits Official Public Comment on Radical HHS Proposed Regulation It would erode the right to life and rollback religious freedom An extinction level event for Catholic health care  Yesterday, the Christ Medicus Foundation (CMF) submitted its official public comment in response to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) proposed rule under …

HHS PROPOSED RULE 1557 Read More »

NATIONAL REVIEW: DR. JOSEPH MEANEY ON COVID VACCINES AND FETAL CELL LINES

National Review interviewed Dr. Joseph Meaney, Executive Director of the National Catholic Bioethics Center and Health Care Civil Rights Task Force member, about the controversy over the COVID-19 vaccine, including the possible use of aborted fetal cells in testing. Dr. Meaney encourages people “to consider all of the ethical factors at play so that they …

NATIONAL REVIEW: DR. JOSEPH MEANEY ON COVID VACCINES AND FETAL CELL LINES Read More »

ORDINARY AND EXTRAORDINARY MEANS

In assessing when there is a duty to preserve life, the Church distinguishes between ordinary and extraordinary means.[1]  Ordinary means must be taken to preserve life, and extraordinary means can be morally refused.[2]  It is, therefore, critical to properly characterize particular means of preserving human life as ordinary or extraordinary, that is, as morally obligatory …

ORDINARY AND EXTRAORDINARY MEANS Read More »

IN CATHOLIC BIOETHICS ALL HUMAN LIVES ARE PRECIOUS

The difference between the Catholic perspective on the dignity and rights of human persons and those of many secular and liberal thinkers seems to be widening. The COVID-19 pandemic and recent events have only served to make the contrast even more stark between truly Catholic health care and other visions of public health or medicine. …

IN CATHOLIC BIOETHICS ALL HUMAN LIVES ARE PRECIOUS Read More »