Amanda Achtman holds graduate degrees in philosophy from the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin in Poland and in Judaic Studies & Jewish-Christian Relations from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. She works with Canadian Physicians for Life on Ethics Education and Cultural Engagement. Amanda is also a 2023-2024 NextGEN Fellow at Cardus and a 2023-2024 Krauthammer Fellow at the Tikvah Fund.
Today we might instinctively look at Nazi criteria for death as utterly baseless, but at the time seasoned medical professionals regarded them as reasonable. To have a sense of history is to grasp the arbitrariness of such criteria. When it comes to killing patients, there is no way to get the criteria just right because the stamp of medical approval sends a social message that there is a category of persons who should not exist.
Date posted: 2024-10-30