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Grace Emily Stark

Grace Emily Stark is the Editor of Natural Womanhood, and a freelance writer and speaker with published work and media appearances in multiple outlets. She is a current Ramsey Institute Fellow at the Center for Bioethics & Culture, and a former Novak Alumni Fund Journalism fellowship recipient. Mrs. Stark holds a M.A. in Bioethics & Health Policy from Loyola University Chicago, and is certified to teach the Sympto-Thermal Method of Natural Family Planning via the Couple to Couple League. She resides in Texas with her husband and their three small children.

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The United Nations’ Misguided Views of Sex, Health, and Happiness

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For the United Nations Population Fund, a few key concepts—sex as integral to well-being, and the importance of caring for others, consent, and bodily autonomy—exhaust the moral significance of sex. Its recent statement implies that sex is nothing but a purely physical act between two bodies. But can sex be distilled so simply?

Physician Assisted Suicide and the Rise of Suicide Cults

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Assisted death proponents argue for physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia on the grounds of promoting autonomy and suspending suffering. Suicide groups like the Dutch Coöperatie Laatste Wil ask the next logical question: why is physician involvement needed at all?

Physicians Without Chests: On the Call to End Conscientious Objection in Medicine

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An article recently published in a prestigious medical journal argues that conscientious objection should be eliminated from the practice of medicine. The argument is unsound, its conclusion dangerous and inhumane.
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Even Very Sick Children Deserve Medical Care: Why Every State Needs “Simon’s Law”

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Parents of very young, very sick children deserve the right to make medical decisions for their sons and daughters, no matter how difficult those decisions may be.
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From “Physician Knows Best” to the Cult of Autonomy: A Seismic Shift in Bioethics

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As American medical ethics shifted from a model of paternalistic beneficence to a model of patient autonomy, self-determination became enshrined as the paramount value—ironically to the detriment of our society’s most vulnerable members.
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