Christians have an obligation to attend to the voices of persons who are crying out that their
dignity and very lives are in jeopardy when physician-assisted suicide (PAS) becomes …

The deeply entrenched, sometimes heated conflict between the disability movement and the
profession of bioethics is well known and well documented. Critiques of prenatal diagnosis …

This article examines the claim of Paul Badham that there is theological precedent for 'a
Christian case for assisted dying'. The writings of Rev. William Inge and Joseph Fletcher do …

Euthanasia and rational suicide were acceptable practices in some quarters in antiquity.
These practices all but disappeared as Hippocratic, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim beliefs …

The opposition to a public policy of physician-assisted suicide from within the disability-
rights community seems to be surprising to academics who are supporters of other civil …

The theme of disability has very rarely appeared in mainstream academic theological ethics.
This paper will examine some of the reasons for this oversight and suggest why it matters …

Opposition to physician-assisted suicide is widespread in Christian ethics. However, on a
topic as controversial as physician-assisted suicide, no one can reasonably speak for “the …

The physical criteria that determine who is and who is not eligible for assisted suicide imply
that some lives—such as lives with disability—are less “objectively” worthwhile than others …

Christianity's opposition to euthanasia and assisted suicide is grounded in its recognition of
such actions as serious violations of the prohibition against murder and self-murder, even in …

Disability theology has been a small but growing field over the past thirty years. This paper
reviews the current methods used in the discipline and proposes ways to move the field …