Tag: Colombia

By Wesley J. Smith Doctors are increasingly under threat of being forced to kill or get out of medicine. I call this “medical martyrdom,” that is, doctors, nurses, pharmacists, etc. forced to choose between engaging (or being complicit) in life-terminating acts such as euthanasia or abortion and losing their careers. It is naked authoritarianism that …

Editor’s note. The following comes from the Parliamentary Network for Critical Issues (PNCI): Colombia’s Health Minister Alejandro Gaviría has established guidelines for euthanasia to permit ‘competent’ adults with a terminal illness to request death by lethal injection. The Health Ministry’s action follows an order by the Supreme Court to act on a 1997 ruling that …

By Michael Cook Colombia’s Health Ministry has finally drawn up guidelines for voluntary euthanasia, 18 years after the country’s supreme court ruled that it was a constitutional right. Health Minister Alejandro Gaviría told media that only competent adults would be able to request the procedure, that only patients with a terminal illness would be eligible, …

By Michael Cook The assisted suicide of American woman Brittany Maynard on November 1 may have tipped Colombia into legalising euthanasia. Euthanasia has been in legal limbo in the South American nation since a decision by its Constitutional Court in 1997 that “mercy killing” was constitutional and that doctors who cooperated should not be prosecuted. …