A court decision in Canada crossed a regrettable, if predictable, redline. For the first time, a young woman successfully applied to proceed with medical assistance in dying based on her autism diagnosis.
Health Care
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
The ethics of Catholic hospitals—beyond abortion and contraception
We need Catholic health care to serve the most vulnerable among us. A myopic focus on a few reproductive health procedures ignores broader questions about health care delivery for populations at risk.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Physician-assisted suicide is gaining popularity. But there are better options.
Physician-assisted suicide can seem like an easy fix to a health care system reluctant to deal with end-of-life issues. But there are other options, including hospice care, that patients deserve to know about.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: A mother’s thoughtful memoir delves deep
Megan Nix’s ‘Remedies for Sorrow’ is ostensibly a memoir, but confining Remedies for Sorrow to one genre seems too restrictive for what this expansive and enlightening book accomplishes.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Medical assistance in dying can’t solve the problem of suffering. Canada’s system is a cautionary tale.
Ms. Godin-Tremblay wonders if the loneliness her grandmother felt during the Covid-19 pandemic contributed to her decision to seek assistance in dying. Almost two years later, she still struggles to mourn the loss of her grandmother.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
In Scotland, faith leaders push for fair pay for caregivers to the elderly
Catholic leaders in Scotland recently joined their Presbyterian Church of Scotland counterparts in advocacy for fair pay for workers in this increasingly essential sector of health care givers for the elderly.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Newborns in Gaza’s hospitals are desperate. This Catholic medical group is trying to deliver life-saving care.
As the humanitarian crisis in Gaza worsens by the day, among the most vulnerable civilians within the strip are newborn babies and their mothers.
Posted inFaith, Opinion
Scientists created a human embryo without sperm or an egg. We should be disgusted—and worried.
With new technology that aims to manufacture a human embryo without sperm or egg, are scientists coming too close to playing God?
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: How can we fix our hospitals?
In his debut book, ‘The People’s Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine,’ Ricardo Nuila presents the conflict between the profit motive of health care and the art of medicine by describing the hospitals that work for people and the hospitals that do not.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
George W. Bush calls on Congress to renew AIDS program in the face of some pro-life opposition
Former President George W. Bush called for the reauthorization of PEPFAR, the AIDS relief program, calling the program “sufficiently pro-life,” despite claims to the contrary from some pro-life advocates.