By Micheal Cook At the end of this month a Toronto man will appear in court charged with abetting suicide. This is not, as you might think, a case of mercy killing — a grieving husband helping a wife suffering from the ravages of cancer or a devoted son who despaired of helping his aged …
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By John Stonestreet and Shane Morris If it is true, as Richard Weaver famously put it, that “ideas have consequences,” it is also true that bad ideas have victims. On no other contemporary issue today is the connection between a bad idea and its victims clearer than assisted suicide. In no other nation today are …
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By Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition On June 19 I reported that Slovenia was debating euthanasia and assisted suicide. At that time I reported that a Slovenian group called Silver Thread collected signatures and were demanding the legalization of assisted dying. The bill proposed by Silver Thread was to be introduced in the Slovenian legislature. …
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To offer the option of a death facilitated by the very person who is trying to get them better seems so counter to everything I have learned and contradicts our role as psychiatrists who work so hard to prevent suicide. Read the whole story.
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By Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition A Netherlands man (Alex S) was convicted for selling a suicide powder, with instructions, to as many as 1,600 people and sentenced to 3.5 years in prison in the suicide deaths of at least 10 people. DutchNews.nl reported: Judges in Den Bosch have jailed the man who …
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Underlying all this is Germany’s past. As CTV noted at the end of their coverage: “The issue is a particularly sensitive topic in a country where more than 200,000 people with physical and mental disabilities were killed under euthanasia programs run by the Nazis.” That’s what you call “burying the lede. Read the whole story.
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By Michael Cook In a significant public relations victory for the assisted dying lobby in the United Kingdom, the Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCS England) has voted to drop its opposition to assisted dying. The College is now officially “neutral” on whether doctors should be allowed to kill patients. The change was made after 72% of …
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Both of these proposals failed on a free vote by wide margins of dozens of votes. By Jonathon Van Maren On July 6, German legislators stalemated on two multi-party bills on how to regulate assisted suicide after the Federal Constitutional Court ruled in 2020 that Germany’s ban was a violation of the right of citizens …
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By Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition The trial for the man (Alex S) in the Netherlands who allegedly distributed 1600 packages of a suicide powder world-wide, took place on July 3 – 4. The DutchNewsNL reported on July 4 that the public prosecutor called for a four year prison sentence for selling a lethal suicide …
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By Dave Andrusko Not many people, including me, are aware of a lawsuit against California’s ‘End of Life Options Act’ that has enormous implications for people with disabilities. In an op-ed appearing in The Hill Matt Valliere lays out the case why, under EOLOA, “people with life-threatening disabilities and only people with life-threatening disabilities who say they want to die …
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By Michael Cook In a significant public relations victory for the assisted dying lobby in the United Kingdom, the Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCS England) has voted to drop its opposition to assisted dying. The College is now officially “neutral” on whether doctors should be allowed to kill patients. The change was made after 72% of …
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By Delaware Catholic Advocacy Network ACTION ALERT! HB 140, the bill to legalize physician-assisted suicide, could come before the Delaware House this week! This is the last week of session for this year and we need your help! Our opposition is rooted in the Church’s belief in the sanctity of life and the dignity of …
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