Zang Yunjin, a top Chinese organ transplant specialist, recently committed suicide, drawing attention to questionable methods of human organs transplantation.
China Insider: Another Organ Transplant Expert Leaves Behind Unethical Deeds
‘Conscience Bill’ Seeks to Protect Health Professionals as Assisted Dying Bill Passes
A recently tabled private member’s bill would give health-care providers the right to refuse participation in medically assisted death, while government legislation passed in the House of Commons on March 11 aims to expand access to this medical procedure. Introduced by Conservative MP Kelly Block on Feb. 18, Bill C-268 would make it a criminal…
A Chinese Doctor’s Suicide Draws Attention to Forced Organ Harvesting in China
Commentary In the early hours of Feb. 26, Dr. Zang Yunjin, a liver transplant specialist, committed suicide. His death may have been connected to his alleged involvement with the mass harvesting of organs from Falun Gong adherents. Sources say that Zang had jumped off a building, according to an article published by Chinese media Medical…
A Chinese Doctor’s Suicide Casts Light on Forced Organ Harvesting in China
Commentary In the early hours of Feb. 26, Dr. Zang Yunjin, a liver transplant specialist, committed suicide. His death may have been connected to his alleged involvement with the mass harvesting of organs from Falun Gong adherents. Sources say that Zang had jumped off a building, according to an article published by Chinese media Medical…
Disability Community Worried About Assisted Dying Expansion
Taylor Hyatt has cerebral palsy and advocates for people with disabilities. She recalls an occasion where acute breathing problems brought her to a hospital emergency room in Ottawa. When a doctor asked her if she wanted oxygen, she replied, “Of course I do.” The doctor then asked, “Are you sure?” “I was floored,” Hyatt told…
At Least 20 Killed by Suicide Car Bomb Near Restaurant in Somalia Capital
MOGADISHU—At least 20 people were killed and 30 wounded by a suicide car bomb just outside a restaurant near the port in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu late on Friday, an emergency services official said. The blast sent plumes of smoke into the sky and triggered gunfire, witnesses and state-owned media reported. “So far we have carried…
The Very Real Personal Costs of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Commentary OK, I have good news and bad news about the murder rate in America. First, the good news. The homicide rate is not as bad as it once was. In 1995, the U.S. murder rate was about twice as high as it is now. Now for the bad news. While final statistics for 2020…
Another DC Police Officer Dies by Suicide Following US Capitol Breach
A second police officer has died by suicide after responding to the violence at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, Acting D.C. Police Chief Robert J. Contee told members of Congress. During his Tuesday hearing before the House Appropriations Committee, Contee revealed in his testimony (pdf) that Jeffrey Smith, who had served the Metro Police Department…
Twin Suicide Bombings Rock Central Baghdad, at Least 28 Dead
BAGHDAD—Twin suicide bombings ripped through a busy market in the Iraqi capital Thursday, killing at least 28 people and wounding dozens, officials said. The rare suicide bombing attack hit the Bab al-Sharqi commercial area in central Baghdad amid heightened political tensions over planned early elections and a severe economic crisis. Blood smeared the floors of…
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