Tag: Commentary

"Why are so many Americans still being told that disability means a life without opportunity?" In a commentary published at The Hill, Collette Divitto — a woman with Down syndrome who also serves as the founder and CEO of Collettey’s ...

Part 11 in the 11-Part Series “Is Any Life Unworthy of Living?“ Mark P. Mostert, Ph.D. While the Netherlands and other European countries have descended slowly into the complete acceptance of medicalized killing, the slippery slope has become way steeper in Canada ...

Part 10 in the 11-Part Series “Is Any Life Unworthy of Living?“ Mark P. Mostert, Ph.D. As we have seen throughout this series, “survival of the fittest” ideas and eugenics have historically shaped the modern global movements promoting assisted suicide and ...

Part 9 in the 11-Part Series “Is Any Life Unworthy of Living?“ Mark P. Mostert, Ph.D. As noted in Part 8, sentiment in the U.S. supporting assisted suicide and euthanasia grew exponentially after 2000. After the states of Oregon (1994) and ...

Waste, fraud, and abuse aren’t just budget problems—they’re human ones. By Leslie Ford, Sara Hart Weir, and Rachel Barkley Medicaid was created in 1965 to ensure that Americans who were poor, elderly, or disabled could access basic health care. But ...

Part 8 in the 11-Part Series "Is Any Life Unworthy of Living?" With assisted suicide and euthanasia now in the cultural mainstream, the pro-death lobby began to seize the moment. But which was the easier issue to move forward: assisted ...

Part 7 in the 11-Part Series "Is Any Life Unworthy of Living?" By the end of the 1970s, while assisted suicide and euthanasia were still illegal in the U.S., bioethics continued to expand as a philosophical field, coinciding with a ...

Part 6 in the 10-Part Series “Is Any Life Unworthy of Living?“ Mark P. Mostert, Ph.D. Just as medical science pivoted to more “scientific” uses of genetic testing and an increased emphasis on mitigating genetic diseases, the field of bioethics ...

The world's growing rejection of the leftist green agenda has ironically made our world greener. National Center Senior Fellow Bonner Cohen explains: Earth Day 2026 is truly an occasion to commemorate, but not for the reasons environmentalists have trumpeted Earth ...

“When government responds to fraud with blunt instruments, the people who rely on these programs can become collateral damage.” In a commentary published at The Hill, Able Americans Director Rachel Barkley commends the good intentions of those who want to root out fraud in the social ...