Dr. Edmund Pellegrino was a bioethicist and the founder of the Edmund D. Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics at Georgetown University.[1]  At the core of his work on ethics was a force of opposition to assisted suicide, euthanasia, abortion, and other anti-life platforms.[2]  He taught his students that “medicine is a moral enterprise,” and he elevated the profession by teaching humanities in medical school.[3]  Additionally, Dr. Pellegrino was named the 11^th president of The Catholic University of America in 1978.[4]