Debating at the Holocaust Museum of Houston
Kathryn Tucker, the lawyer for Compassion and Choices (formerly Hemlock Society) and I will debate assisted suicide (which she insists on calling "aid in dying") Tuesday night at the Holocaust Museum of Houston. Our presentations are part of a much larger series entitled "Medical Ethics and the Holocaust: How Healing Becomes Killing--Eugenics, Euthanasia and Extermination."
Apparently, the event can be viewed live over the Internet from this page at the Museum site. We begin at 6:00PM Central Time. I speak first for 30 minutes. Tucker goes second. And then we take questions from the audience.
Tucker is one of the most able pro assisted- suicide advocates around. It should make for an interesting night.
Labels: Debating Assisted Suicide
posted by Wesley J. Smith @ 10:49 PM
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8 Comments:
I've been looking forward to this one since I first read about the series and I'm driving over from the San Antonio area.
See you there!
Good luck.
:) Have a good one! :)
I AM SO FREAKIN' THERE!!
6pm until when? I have to work Wed at 9am - I can't be up too late and Houston traffic bites like a vampire.
Or is it one of those "it ends when it ends" kinds of things? Is it open to the public or do you need to pay to get in? Gah. It's hell to be poor!
Wishing you much luck in your debate and I hope I get a chance to see you.
TEFine, it's free, but be there at least a 15 minutes early. The actual event is at 6 PM, lasts just an hour or two. (I think 2, so you'll be out of there by 8)
I've signed up at the Holocaust Museum/UTHouston website. But none of the events have been absolutely full, and there's supposed to be an overflow room with video. I've been to two (the first and to hear Dr. Kass) and have never been asked for confirmation of registration.
Great seeing you Lifeethics.com
It was a good debage, I tought. Tucker sticks to Oregon like a baby kangaroo to her mother. I thought she scored some points as did I.
It was tough but I am pleased with the outcome. (In a less public forum before the debate we got very sharp armed with each other. Elbows were thrown metaphorically by us both. It got a bit angry. No quarter asked, none given.)
Any way, I'm tired. Tomorrow, it is off to Toronto.
It really was a good event and I hope you enjoyed your time in Texas.
We could tell that y'all were trying not to get mad at each other and I got the idea that Dr. Rubenfeld was slightly testy. He always does a good job moderating the questions, though.
I drove the 180 miles there and back to support you, because I was afraid that you'd be sand bagged by the Houston crowd and then was late, sorry. The mini cooper had sat in the garage for a week and I guess it needed a run. The tire alert light came on about half-way to Houston. I had to slow down until I could get to a gas station to check the pressure. One tire was just under 30 psi.)
It turned out some of the questions were from what I took as a pro-life stance after all. Although there are too many people who feel the subject, rather than think it through to its logical consequences.
It's a shock to hear "back alley deaths" although it turns out not to be the first time, after all.
The silliest part was when Ms. Tucker chided you for using the wrong name for what she called "Aid in Dying." Second-tier (that's a word used to disparage someone else's references that I learned at the ASBH conference this year) organizations like the American Medical Womens Association and the American Public Health Association have made statements on the "emotional" nature of words within the last year, and you are a bad, bad, man for using the common and legal term.
Just one more case of the pro-death (excuse me, "progressive")crowd redefining, renaming, projecting, and destroying.
Thanks again for coming to Texas. A longer post is going up at LifeEthics.org.
Beverly
Thanks Beverly. It was good seeing you.
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