More on those “mercy killings” Sheila January 8, 2010 Or, ‘shooting fish in a barrel’, as Dr. Mark Mostert so aptly but wincingly puts it. About that Dutch story Read More
On a side note… Sheila January 8, 2010 Geesh, that’s how the Dutch News treats the story of euthanasia….or “mercy killing” as they put it….in Read More
What is social justice, anyway? Sheila January 6, 2010 Michael Novak defines how we have historically understood what has become a politically loaded term. “For its proponents, “social justice” Read More
Brute law Sheila January 2, 2010 On New Year’s Eve, the Montana Supreme Court’s Baxter decision came down while no one was paying attention. Read More
A most uncomfortable topic Sheila December 27, 2009 Actually, it would be more apt to see this as a lack of true compassion – ‘to suffer with’ – replaced by Read More
Good news in the Times? Sheila December 25, 2009 The Asociated Press actually ran this story. That’s the first part of the good news. “There are no medical Read More
Not etched in stone Sheila December 23, 2009 There are many reasons for pushback on the Senate health care legislative ‘compromise’. Abortion funding is chief among them. But Read More
Deconstructing ‘health care’ Sheila December 19, 2009 Abortion is not health care, as the post below considers. Neither is physician-assisted suicide. Wesley Smith says the system is Read More
Fads begin from the top down Sheila December 14, 2009 Movements, from the bottom up. We are convinced that societies are changed over the backyard fence, standing around the barbeque Read More
Some oxymoronic health care cuts Sheila December 7, 2009 The New York Times points out in this piece that home health care is yet another type of service that Read More