By Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition An excellent article written by Tristan Hopper was published in the National Post on January 5 titled: Disability groups now assuring members they won’t recommend euthanasia. Hopper reports on a growing coalition of disability and human rights groups that are saying that Canada’s euthanasia law has gone … Read more
By Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Jocelyn Downie A campaign by Jocelyn Downie, the academic euthanasia activist at Dalhousie University, has resulted in St Martha’s hospital in Antigonish NS being forced to provide MAiD (euthanasia) in the Catholic hospital. An article by Ross Lord and Alexander Quon for Global News reported that the … Read more
By Nancy Valko Physician-assisted suicide is not just about someone taking a lethal overdose of medicine prescribed by a doctor. For many years, Compassion and Choices (the former and more appropriately named Hemlock Society) has also promoted VSED (voluntary stopping of eating and drinking) as just other end of life option they insist is legal … Read more
By Paul Russell, Founder, HOPE Australia Philip Nitschke It is almost exactly two years since South Australian euthanasia campaigner, Max Bromson took his own life in a motel at a seaside suburb of Adelaide. After two years of investigation, South Australian Police confirmed today that they will not be laying charges against former doctor and … Read more
By Dave Andrusko Vincent Lambert Yesterday NRL News Today reported on the case of Vincent Lambert, a 38-year-old Frenchmen who was severely brain injured in a 2008 motorcycle accident. The European Court of Human Rights had ruled that food and water can be withdrawn from Lambert but his parents vowed not to give in. According … Read more
By Alex Schadenberg Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition The Canadian Medical Association (CMA) published the results of its online poll and it national dialogue concerning euthanasia, assisted suicide and end-of-life care. The CMA consultation report determined that 71.5% agreed with the current CMA policy on euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Death, 25.8% disagreed with its current … Read more
By Michael Cook Lithuanian Health Minister Rimantė Šalaševičiūtė Euthanasia might be needed for poor people who cannot access palliative care, the new Lithuanian Health Minister has suggested. Rimantė Šalaševičiūtė was sworn earlier this month, but already she has made waves by backing an open discussion of the legalisation of euthanasia. Without making any specific … Read more
By Paul Russell, Executive Director, HOPE Australia Philip Nitschke The recent news concerning Dr. Philip Nitschke, Exit International and the suicide death of two men in Australia who were not terminally ill has forced the Australian public to confront the issue of assisting someone to die. As Herald Sun columnist, Andrew Bolt points out, … Read more
By Alex Schadenberg, International Chair – Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Tom Mortier’s mother On Sunday, January 12, 2014, in the afternoon, organizers of groups that are working together to oppose the Belgian euthanasia law held a protest outside the offices of the Belgium euthanasia Control and Evaluation Commission. Three hundred protesters, wearing yellow jackets, gathered … Read more
By Dave Andrusko Editor’s note. There is still time to register for the National Right to Life convention June 28-30 and to reserve a hotel room at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City in Arlington, Virginia. Just go to www.nrlconvention.org. Professor Patrick Pullicino In a speech to the Royal Society of Medicine in London, Professor Patrick … Read more