Stories tagged with: human dignity

• Report: Assisted suicide in Belgium & Ore. on the rise

  by Samantha Gobba/WORLD , posted Tuesday, March 12, 2019 (5 years ago)

  

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  ASHEVILLE, N.C. (BP) -- Euthanasia and assisted suicide numbers continued to rise last year in Belgium and in Oregon, according to official reports released last month.

  Belgium's euthanasia rate increased last year to 2,357 deaths, up from 2,309 in 2017. While that's a small increase from the previous year, it's more than double the country's 2010 euthanasia rate of 954. Read More

• Human dignity addressed by ERLC in Capitol Hill event

  by Tom Strode, posted Monday, October 08, 2018 (5 years ago)

  

  Photo by Anne Kim

  WASHINGTON (BP) -- Human dignity, as a biblical doctrine, should shape how Christians view the unborn, elderly and refugees as well as religious liberty, sexual assault and civil discourse, Southern Baptist ethics leaders told a gathering on Capitol Hill.

  The expansiveness of human dignity was set forth Oct. 2 by staff members of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission in the final of three sessions this year of its annual ERLC Academy. Russell Moore, the ERLC's president, and Daniel Darling, the commission's vice president for communications, addressed questions for an audience consisting primarily ... Read More

• Same-sex parents: 'possible,' not 'moral'

  by David Roach, posted Friday, February 27, 2015 (9 years ago)

  "We're talking about manufacturing children. ... It's of great concern."

  -- David Prentice

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- Same-sex couples could soon have their own biological children by utilizing a reproductive technology being developed by researchers at Cambridge University and Israel's Weizmann Institute of Science. But Christian bioethicists have classified the potential new technology as rife with moral problems. Read More