Tag: life

Death’s Fork in the Road

In a span of a few weeks, I was confronted with two distinct views on death and two distinct ways of dying. In one was the illusion of self-mastery; in the other, the radical surrender of self.

A Case of Anti-Life Liberalism

Think baby factories are a thing for science fiction? Think again. A Swedish lawmaker wants his government to start researching the idea.

Embryo or Embryo Model?

Recent successes in making embryos from stem cells are ethically fraught.

When the Law Defines What It Means to Be Human

Today, it is all too common to prize self-sufficiency as a virtue—a virtue by nature inaccessible to the sick and to the disabled, to pregnant women and to the elderly, and to children of any age.