If doctors must refuse needed care, morality and maintaining the people’s trust require that they always be executed in a manner wholly consistent with upholding the equal moral worth of all patients. In other words, decisions to withhold or withdraw treatments — chance for life or likelihood of death — should never be predicated on invidious distinctions, such as race, sex, wealth, age, sexual orientation, disability, etc.

Now in Argentina, the right to obtain an abortion has been declared so
fundamental that an objecting M.D. can be held criminally culpable for
refusing to terminate a pregnancy.

We have shut down much of our country in response to a virus that we
saw devastate Wuhan and northern Italy, but we do not seem to know
what to do next. This is partly because those who lived through similarly serious pandemics, like the Spanish Flu, are no longer with us. But the greater problem is the one Marc Andreessen addresses: because we have forgotten how to “build,” we are struggling to imagine how we will lead ourselves out of lockdown and back to normal life.

Why has Taiwan done so well in combating COVID-19 — this pestilence that the press initially was calling the “Chinese coronavirus” or “Wuhan virus”? Simple: Taiwan’s leadership assumed everything it was hearing was a lie.

Ezekiel Emanuel — a prime architect of Obamacare — is the most famous
person on Joe Biden's Public Health Advisory Committee. Why is that important? Emanuel made headlines a few years ago writing in The Atlantic that he wants to die at age 75 — younger than Biden is today — and he thinks we should want that too.

Activists pushing suicide by physician—suicide by overdose—are attempting to create what is ultimately a meaningless distinction between “planned” and “unplanned” suicides by the sick and other self-killings in order to valorize the former while still loosely pretending to stigmatize the latter.