Some people are forcefully exhorting the rest of us to make “pro-life” our chief, or even sole, concern in this Canadian election. To this advice, I reply with firm equivocation. Yes, we should. And no, we shouldn’t. On the yes … Continued
Medicine
Religion Is Good for You—or Is It Really that Simple?
Yet another round of research shows that religion is good for you. Or so it seems. But is that quite what’s being proven? In a studypublished by the American Journal of Epidemiology, Ying Chen and her team at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of … Continued
Another Adolescent Decision in a Time of Grown-Up Challenges
The Baby Boomers strike again. This week, the Ontario Court of Appeal—the highest-level court in the country to consider a case of physicians’ freedom of religion—endorseda lower court’s ruling that all physicians must enable their patients to engage in abortion, assisted-death, … Continued