Category Archives: Assisted Suicide
Huge increase in assisted suicide cases in Oregon and Switzerland sounds strong warning to Britain
By Dr. Peter Saunders Editor’s note. Dr. Saunders is a former general surgeon and CEO of Christian Medical Fellowship, a UK-based organization with 4,500 UK doctors and 1,000 medical students as members. This appears at his blog. There has been
New York Times Wants to know why Americans “Balk” at Assisted Suicide
By Dave Andrusko I’m not telling you anything you don’t already know, but reading the New York Times, often you don’t know whether to laugh or cry, so outrageous is its pervasive, all-consuming anti-life bias. The question posed in a
What is lost when we discard a sense of the sacredness of life
By Dave Andrusko We have run dozens and dozens of articles at National Right to Life News Today about the ever-more-aggressive pro-euthanasia movement in Canada. As many wonderful pieces that we’ve included written by the likes of Margaret Somerville and
Second Thoughts grow on Assisted Suicide
By Alex Schadenberg, executive director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Diane Coleman and Stephen Drake have co-wrote this article that was published in the Wall Street Journal April 5 titled: Second Thoughts Grow on Assisted Suicide. The article is reprinted below. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
German Judge Opens Assisted Suicide Door
By Wesley J. Smith I am not a German lawyer, and so I don’t know if this is dispositive or merely the first step in a longer legal process. But a German administrative court has apparently ruled that the ban
Alzheimer’s and the Call to Exercise Virtue
By Dave Andrusko New York Times columnist David Brooks Last week the New York Times’ Matt Flegenheimer wrote a much commented upon story about Charles Snelling, who had killed his wife and took his own life. I did not see
The Role of the Media in Shaping the UK Debate on ‘Assisted Dying’
By Dr. Peter Saunders Just over a year ago I was commissioned to write a review article about the role of the media in shaping the UK [United Kingdom] debate on ‘assisted dying’. The article was published in the September
The Practice of Assisting Suicide is on the Rise in the U.S. and Abroad
By Jennifer Popik, JD, Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethics On March 27th , the government of Switzerland released a report on the practice of assisting suicide with a dramatic conclusion: five out of every 1,000 resident deaths now involve
The “Right to Die”—a misanthropic green light to defeatism
By Dave Andrusko We’ve carried a number of stories about ongoing efforts in the House of Commons to change the law on assisted suicide—dubbed by proponents changing the law that “governs compassionate acts to assist another to die at their
Physician-Assisted Suicides in Oregon Increasing in Number and with Less Information
Editor’s note. The following analysis comes from Physicians for Compassionate Care Education Foundation (PCCEF) The Public Health Department of the Oregon Health Authority released their report for physician-assisted suicides for the 2011 year. Their report is available here. PCCEF is