Jacob M. Appel

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Jacob M. Appel (born February 21, 1973, in New York City) is an American author best known for his short stories, plays, and for his work as a bioethicist.

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• Some see "God" as "dog" spelled backwards. I see "God" as "cat" spelled with a vivid imagination.
  • Arborophilia (2005)

• Do you know what's wrong with this country? A man doesn't vote, and doesn't pay his taxes, and doesn't have a driver’s license — and, after all that, he still ends up on jury duty. It's downright un-American.
  • Arborophilia (2005)

• Republicans are nothing more than Democrats with poor judgment.
  • Arborophilia (2005)

• I have never been to prison, but I've been to law school...
  • Arborophilia (2005)

• If you give a man a hammer, he thinks he can solve all problems by pounding. Well, God gave men penises....
  • The Mistress of Wholesome (2007)

• Marriage is unusual in that the more I see of it, the less I believe in it.
  • The Mistress of Wholesome (2007)

• It is easy to let men alone when they do things our way. The test of a truly enlightened civilization is one that lets people alone, to pursue their own predilections, even when the majority of us prefer to live our lives very differently from theirs.
  • "Three Reasons Society Shouldn't Rush to Condemn Bestiality," Opposing Views (2009-03-13)

• I would prefer to believe that a market in fetal organs would empower women to use their reproductive capabilities to their own economic advantage.
  • "Are We Ready for a Market in Fetal Organs?," The Huffington Post (2009-03-17)

• Depression and hopelessness are not the only reasons terminally ill patients wish to end their lives. Many individuals see nothing undignified about choosing to end their lives at the time and manner of their choosing — and many view such a choice as the meaningful culmination of a good life.
  • "Is it compassionate to prohibit suicide?,"The Baltimore Sun (2009-03-17)

• I dream of the day when women are not afraid to walk the streets with pins reading, "I had an abortion and it was the right decision," and when station wagons bear bumper-stickers announcing, "Thank me for having an abortion when I wasn't ready to be a parent."
  • "It's Time for an Abortion Pride Movement," Opposing Views (2009-03-23)

• Somehow, many supporters of abortion rights have been lulled into accepting the rhetoric that abortion should be "safe, legal and rare." That may be good language for winning elections, but it does a profound disservice to the millions of women who have abortions in this nation each year. Abortions should be safe and legal. That goes without saying. But rare? Abortions should be as frequent or as infrequent as are unwanted pregnancies.
  • "It's Time for an Abortion Pride Movement," Opposing Views (2009-03-23)

• Victory [over homophobia] may require five or maybe 20 years. Yet I have no doubt that "don't ask, don't tell" and same-sex adoption bans will be as unspeakable and inexplicable to my grandchildren as counting a slave as three-fifths of a human being.
  • "Reparations for Gay Americans," The Detroit Free Press (2009-04-07)

• The freedom to travel and to settle where one wishes, in pursuit of political freedom or economic opportunity, is among the most basic of human rights....The principal difference between the Irish peasants who once fled the potato blight on coffin ships, and the desperate Haitian rafters that our navy forcibly repatriates today, is bad timing.
  • "The Ethical Case for an Open Border" Opposing Views (2009-05-04)

• The belief that fetuses have the same inherent moral value as living human beings—that “killing” a fetus is no different that slaughtering a ten-year-old child—is a breathtakingly dangerous position. Because if this is true, then abortion providers are indeed “murderers” and “maniacs,” and the United States Supreme Court is complicit in genocide, and this great democratic nation that we live in is rotten to its very core. I doubt many people truly believe that—not even the most vocal opponents of legal abortion. I certainly hope few people believe this. But if the hardcore anti-abortion activists do not believe this, then they have a moral obligation to step back from this rhetorical brink...."
  • George Tiller and the Paradox of Anti-Abortion Violence Opposing Views (2009-06-04)

• Much as we do not permit convicted pedophiles to teach kindergarten or convicted hijackers to board airplanes, common sense dictates that individuals who have been imprisoned for plotting violence against abortion clinics should never again be permitted anywhere near such facilities.
  • "The Case for an Anti-Abortion Violence Registry," The Huffington Post (2009-06-29)

• I am grateful that I have rights in the proverbial public square--but, as a practical matter, my most cherished rights are those that I possess in my bedroom and hospital room and death chamber.
  • "A Culture of Liberty", The Huffington Post (2009-07-21)

• Most people are far more concerned that they can control their own bodies than they are about petitioning Congress.
  • "A Culture of Liberty", The Huffington Post (2009-07-21)

• The cold, cruel reality is that with one current justice now approaching ninety, and four others over seventy, the day will inevitably arrive when a sitting justice lies in an intensive care unit, both unable to resign and unable to resume his or her duties.
  • "Anticipating the Incapacitated Justice", The Huffington Post (2009-08-22)

• Much as constitutional guarantees of press freedom do little good for prospective publishers if they do not have access to paper or ink, the right to aid in dying is strikingly useless if nobody is willing to help.
  • Big Sky Dilemma: Must Doctors Help Their Patients Die?, The Huffington Post (2009-09-02)

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