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During a quiet tea-break as a surgical house officer, I was summoned to the medical superintendent's office. My O&G colleague was busy. Would I please admit some patients for elective termination of pregnancy? In accepting my appointment I had signed a form saying that I would be willing to take...
There are only two instances of voluntary euthanasia in the Bible. In the first, Abimelech, believing himself to be fatally wounded with a fractured skull after being hit on the head by a millstone, asks his armour-bearer to kill him. His request is granted and the Israelite leader is thus...
The key issue Andrew Thornett has clearly identified the key issue in the abortion debate, namely 'What constitutes a human being?' as Scripture clearly forbids the killing of the same.[1] When does a zygote or embryo become a human being and therefore assume the right not to be killed? He argues...
