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‘No science’ behind transgender therapy for kids, doctors warn
- Catholic News Agency, Church in the US
- October 16, 2017
Gender dysphoria is a psychological condition in which a person’s experience of the psychological and cultural associations of their gender differ greatly from their biological sex. Dr. Paul Hruz, emphasizing the importance of rooting medical practices in science rather than ideology, says no randomized controlled trials have shown that puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones are the best treatments for children with the condition.
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Vatican conference tackles new technology and medicine
- Catholic News Agency, Vatican
- October 3, 2017
The Pontifical Academy for Life is holding a conference on technological advancement. An official from the Academy noted technology can help to keep a person comfortable, but “it doesn’t defeat death.” So the great challenge, then, is “to find the lines that are respected for every person, especially the most weak, vulnerable and suffering.”
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Catholic health care growth a benefit, not a threat, ethicist says
- Catholic News Agency, Church in the US
- September 20, 2017
The National Bureau of Economic Research is an influential domestic policy think tank based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Its working paper estimated that the expansion of Catholic hospitals reduces by 30 percent the annual rates per-bed of inpatient abortions. The rates of tubal ligations or sterilizations drop 31 percent. Edward Furton, an ethicist with the National Catholic Bioethics Center, said, “The authors assume that denying access to these ‘services’ represents a moral failing of some sort, but not many people would agree.”
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Bioethics expert says ‘de-valuing’ human beings is 21st century malady
- Interviews
- September 18, 2017
Dr. John Haas, President of the National Catholic Bioethics Center, says that beneath specific conundrums that arise in the field of bioethics these days lies a deeper challenge that the Catholic Church is uniquely equipped to address: A ‘de-valuing’ of human beings, which turns the weak and vulnerable into commodities to be exploited by the wealthy and powerful.
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The Brothers of Charity are clear: No euthanasia in our hospitals
- Catholic News Agency, Global Church
- September 17, 2017
The head of the Brothers of Charity said the order may withdraw its sponsorship of 15 hospitals in Belgium after the board voted to ignore a Vatican demand not to perform euthanasia at the facilities. Brother René Stockman said the Brothers of Charity would remain faithful to the Church’s teaching, despite serious civil pressure to the contrary.
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Defying Vatican, Belgian religious brothers will continue to offer euthanasia
- Catholic News Agency, Global Church
- September 13, 2017
In a September 12 statement, the board of the Belgian Brothers of Charity defied a Vatican request to end euthanizing patients, and said it “continues to stand by its vision statement on euthanasia for mental suffering in a non-terminal situation.” The Brothers of Charity in Belgium run 15 psychiatric hospitals with 5,000 patients.
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