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Blog Entries by Jacob M. Appel from 09/2009

Big Sky Dilemma: Must Doctors Help Their Patients Die?

| Posted 09.02.2009 | Politics
Read More: Montana, Politics, Leukemia, Conscience Clause, Constitutional Law, Human Rights, Assisted Suicide, Health, Constitituton, Doctors, Bioethics, Medicine, Healthcare, Politics News

Mandating that physicians aid in dying should be a last resort. Montana should explore other, less-invasive means of ensuring that all citizens are guaranteed their constitutional right to die.

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When Infanticide Isn't Murder

| Posted 09.08.2009 | Politics
Read More: Murder, Abortion, Texas, Mercy, Politics, Human Rights, Children, Crime, Motherhood, Parenting, Bioethics, Infanticide, Politics News

In the wake of a series of highly-publicized killings of young children by Texas mothers suffering from post-partum mental disorders, a state representative from Houston has introduced long overdue legislation that will recognize the mitigating circumstances surrounding such acts.

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"Mercy Killing": When Love & Law Conflict

| Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics
Read More: Murder, Medical Ethics, Jim Fish, Politics, Montana, Right to Die, Crime, Assisted Suicide, Jack Kevorkian, Washington, Oregon, Paul Weinstein, Euthanasia, Bioethics, Health Care, Politics News

The blame in two murder cases rests squarely with a society that forces devoted husbands and wives to choose between the welfare of their spouses and the letter of the law.

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Alabama's Bad Vibrations

| Posted 09.25.2009 | Healthy Living
Read More: Supreme Court, Marriage, Religion, Dan Ireland, Law, Politics, Women, Alabama, Sex, Freedom, Troy King, Vibrators, Sex Toys, Healthy Living News

Alabama's crusade against sex toys began as an effort by State Sen. Tom Butler to ban nude dancing. Why Butler objected to a naked foxtrot is not clear, but even he admits that his effort spiraled out of hand.

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