Bioethics, healthcare policy, and related issues.
LifeSiteNews, a right-wing online news outlet with somewhat dubious standards of reportorial accuracy and a never-failing slant on even the most straightforward stories, offers this shocking headline:
Chinese Military Doctor Witness to over 60,000 “Involuntary” Organ Donations – most from Falun Gong
That’s gut-wrenching. The fact that it’s almost certainly false, however, only detracts from the serious issue of telling the truth about Chinese organ-transplant abuses and repression of the Falun Gong.
Canada is slowly being invaded by the US’s culture of right-wing grousing about other people’s liberties. The Canadian courts, however, have remained a bulwark for its citizens, and in a recent case not only made a powerful and important distinction regarding the rule of, and role of, law, but in doing so set what the opponents of liberty themselves refer to as a “precedent”. Let’s hope the courts take them at their word, and build on this example.
The case, like so many of America’s most important cases on liberty rights, hinges on an issue deliciously guaranteed to trip the right-wing’s sex-panic hairtrigger. The question was the Constitutionality (under Canadian law) of bans on sex clubs and “swinger” clubs. The Court properly found no good reason to be against them, and struck down the law. And the howling began.
