While the visible victims may draw the headlines and attract indignant protests from so-called "pro-life" organizations, the invisible victims are people like you and me who will suffer from diseases that are never cured because funds are being poured down a healthcare sieve in order to maintain permanently-unconscious bodies on complex and costly forms of life support.

If freedom means anything at all, it is the right to primacy in regard to sexuality, reproduction, medical care and death.

Such is the demographic paradox of a junior physician's relationship with his patients: I worry about how to extend their lives. This anxiety inevitably shortens my own.

A century ago, people laughed at the notion that we were descended from monkeys. Today, the individuals most offended by that claim are the monkeys.

Most people are far more concerned that they can control their own bodies than they are about petitioning Congress.

Be optimistic. Always put on clean underwear if you're going on a date.

If you give a man a hammer, he thinks he can solve all problems by pounding. Well, God gave men penises.