This page provides resources related to bioethics issues that have impacted medical treatment for physically and cognitively disabled people. These issues tend to run the gamut in the bioethics arena. We feel that the futile care laws affecting vulnerable individuals often spring from these debates and thus encourage concerned citizens to educate themselves about the many factors involved.

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Stunting Debate:

A Convenient Truth, by Peter Singer

Quality of Life: Who Should Decide for Disabled People?

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Recommended Authors

Wesley J. Smith

• Forced Exit: The Slippery Slope from Euthanasia to Legalized Murder.

• Culture of Death: The Assault on Medical Ethics in America.

Peter Singer

• Should the Baby Live?
  Practical Ethics (2nd Edition)

• Writings on An Ethical Life.
  A compilation of Singer's work that includes pertinent material relevant to disability issues and provides an overview of his philosophies on other matters.

• The President of Good and Evil.
  This is a secondary resource that provides background on Singer's general philosophy of life.

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Recommended Online Reading

Euthanasia and/or Life Support:

Letting Children Die for the Faith


Peter Singer - meet Brad Hennefer


The Case of Robert and Tracy Latimer


Ruling on Disability Rights Called a Blow by Advocates


Steve Forbes Declines Princeton Financial Backing Due to Singer Hiring


Futile Care Theory and Medical Fascism: The Duty to Die by Wesley J. Smith


Robert W. Latimer case raises significant issues about the rights of people with disabilities


Gardner crusade is a selfish last act
"Gardner is, however, pressing ahead with his 'last campaign,' an initiative to legalize physician-assisted suicide in the state of Washington."


Euthanasia.com
"Information for research on euthanasia, physician-assisted suicide, living wills, and mercy killings...committed to the fundamental belief that the intentional killing of another person is wrong. We have deep sympathy for those people who are suffering."