A Human Rights Bioethics.

"There is one view of bioethics which says that it should somehow work to bring social harmony and peace. To that my response is, Who says so? It seems to me that bioethics, to be serious, has to ask hard, even nasty questions. If that leads to peace, fine. If it doesn't, that is also fine."

Daniel Callahan, November/ December 1993 Hastings Center Report Special Supplement

"Once you breach the firewall of Hippocratic morality only bad things can happen."

Dr. Michael Franzblau, American physician and Nazi hunter

"Our culture is fast devolving into one in which killing is beneficent, suicide rational, natural death is undignified, and caring properly and compassionately for people who are elderly, prematurely born, disabled, despairing, or dying is a burden that wastes emotional and financial resources. Indeed, it is alarming how far the [bioethics] movement has already pushed medical ethics away from the ideals and beliefs that most people count on to protect them when they or a loved one grows seriously ill or disabled."

Wesley J. Smith, Culture of Death

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