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Medical Journal Pushes Harvesting Kidneys from Dying Patients
(National Review) This is different. Taking a kidney from a dying patient would harm the still living human being. It would materially impact the timing of death, or perhaps cause death. Moreover, it would lead quickly to the next logical step: allowing euthanasia by organ harvest, already proposed in some journals. In short, imminent-death donation would elevate the importance of organ retrieval over the equal moral worth and lives of patients.
As Kansas lawmakers battle over abortion, Medicaid expansion could be casualty
(The Kansas City Star) Amending a state constitution to allow lawmakers to limit abortion rights is a relatively recent practice. Tennessee became the first in 2014, when voters decided the state constitution should not allow public funding for abortions and that lawmakers could regulate them . Other states, like Alabama and West Virginia, have adopted similar amendments. “The difference of a constitutional amendment is that you’re not just saying this is what we think is good policy,” said Katie Glenn, government affairs counsel at Americans United for Life. “You’re saying this is a fundamental right.”
Pro-Life Groups Applaud President Trump Highlighting Premature Baby, Call To Ban Late-Term Abortion
(The Daily Caller) Americans United for Life President and CEO Catherine Glenn Foster praised Trump’s welcome of the premature baby and her mother, calling the moment “remarkable and encouraging. Ellie is a living witness to the need for law and policy that protects all human beings from needless violence and harm and especially from the sort of medical indifference to vulnerable young life that Roe encourages and that politicians like Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam seek to codify,” Foster said in a statement. Baby Ellie is “alive and thriving,” but Foster pointed out that this is “no thanks to American law.”
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