New Podcast: The New Bioethics of Personhood Theory
By: Wesley J. Smith
Discovery Institute
November 30, 2006
What is
personhood theory? If you haven't heard about his before you probably will in the very near future. In this new view on life, each human being doesn’t have moral worth simply and merely because he or she is human, but rather, we each have to earn our rights by possessing sufficient mental capacities to be considered a person.
Personhood theory provides moral justification to oppress and exploit the most vulnerable human beings. Indeed, based on the writing of some of the most influential writers in bioethics in the world’s most reputable bioethical and medical journals, being denigrated as a non person can have lethal consequences and lead to the worst forms of abuse.
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