Examining bioethics, morality, and culture from a distinctively orthodox Lutheran perspective. Site dedicated to the Holy Family.
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 8th, 2010
Alas, a campaign is underway in The Netherlands to allow for the euthanasia of grandma and grandpa. Uber-bioethicist Wesley J. Smith notes, Assisted suicide has been openly practiced since 1973, only being formally legalized in 2002. It has never been limited to the terminally ill, and the “guidelines” are not “stringent,” nor are they enforced [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 7th, 2009
In the fictional world of Underworld, death dealers were created by Vampires in order to put down Lycans (werewolves) by silver bullets and, later, bullets containing silver nitrate. In the real world of Obamacare, congresspersons riddle euthanasia concepts into health-care legislation. Here’s an example from the American Thinker: . . . the government is going [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 29th, 2009
Health care rationing, ultimately an effect of any attempt at socialized medicine, inevitably includes care limitations for those determined least likely to benefit from treatment. That usually includes the elderly and those with lifelong illnesses or injuries, including some of our true American heroes, our veterans. From The Christian Post: The nation’s largest faith-based organization [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 11th, 2009
Ominously entitled “The More People Think They Know about Obama’s Health Care Reform Proposals The More They Oppose Them,” a Harris poll conducted July 20-22, 2009 is showing a doubling (from 17 to 36 percent) of Americans polled saying they knew something about President Obama’s reform proposals, while 72 percent were confident they knew “some” [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 6th, 2009
Apparently so, in the State of Oregon. According to FoxNews.com, Some terminally ill patients in Oregon who turned to their state for health care were denied treatment and offered doctor-assisted suicide instead, a proposal some experts have called a “chilling” corruption of medical ethics. Since the spread of his prostate cancer, 53-year-old Randy Stroup of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 5th, 2009
National Right to Life reporting: The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee today [June 22] defeated on a party-line vote an amendment offered by Senator Michael Enzi of Wyoming, the ranking Republican member to the pending health care restructuring bill that would have prevented the use of “comparative effectiveness” research methodologies as a basis [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 30th, 2009
From the June 25 Los Angeles Times: President Obama suggested at a town hall event Wednesday night that one way to shave medical costs is to stop expensive and ultimately futile procedures performed on people who are about to die and don’t stand to gain from the extra care. In a nationally televised event at [...]
The Reverend Robert C. Baker, B.B.A, M.Div., is an ordained pastor in The Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod, and serves the Church as an editor at the denomination's publishing house. He is currently pursuing an M.S. degree in Health Care Ethics at Creighton University. He is the author of What Happened To Merry Christmas? and How Do You Start a Fire with Water? and has authored or edited numerous Bible studies and books.
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