Medicine's Descent From Healing to Killing - An Interview with Dr. Richard Weikart

If we believe there is no qualitative distinction between animals and humans, are we more likely to protect human life or devalue it? On this episode of ID The Future, host Eric Anderson talks to historian Dr. Richard Weikart about his latest book, Unnatural Death: Medicine’s Descent From Healing to Killing, now available from Discovery Institute Press. The book is a wide-ranging history of euthanasia and assisted suicide from Ancient Greece to today.
In this conversation, Dr. Richard Weikart explains how his new book builds on his previous work on the decline of respect for the sanctity of human life and the connection between Adolf Hitler’s actions and evolutionary ethics. He covers the origins and changing definitions of euthanasia, the devaluation of life in antiquity, the influence of secularization and Darwinism on attitudes towards euthanasia, and the Nazi regime’s euthanasia program. Dr. Weikart also addresses the justifications for euthanasia and offers suggestions for upholding the sanctity of human life.
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In Canada where I live, practising Christians (regularly attending church) make up only 10% to 15% of the population.
We by-and-large quite strongly believe that individuals have a right to die (in specific advanced stages), to have abortions and to practise being LGBT. These rights are protected in our charter of rights and in our constitution.
I am sympathetic with some of the Christian practises of not using birth control, not having abortions, etc if that is what they want to practise,as long as they don’t impose their will on the majority of maybe 75% of society, or maybe even 90% of society (as Catholics only have 1.3 kids per family, too, which means they are choosing birth control or abortion as well).
But this will take care of itself as quite a few churches will close down in the next 20 years due to plummeting membership (the United Church, Church of England and so on).