Tag: Compassion and Choices

Is Compassion and Choices Aiming to Become the “Planned Parenthood” of Euthanasia?

By Nancy Valko With over $22 million in 2015 net assets, a 4 star rating from Charity Navigator, enthusiastic media coverage and a new “Federal Policy Agenda for 2016 and Beyond,” Compassion and Choices increasingly appears to be following in the 4 star, politically and media supported, $1.3 billion dollar revenue ($528 million in government …

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“Compassion and Choices”: Trying to turn Thanksgiving into a mope-fest

By Maria Gallagher, Legislative Director, Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation Editor’s note. Thursday is, of course, Thanksgiving. We’re running an article on Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday to remind us of what Thanksgiving means for us as pro-lifers. This first ran in 2014. Happy Thanksgiving in advance to you and yours! What are your plans for Thanksgiving? …

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Gushing profile of “Compassion and Choices” offers important insights into leading proponent of physician-assisted suicide

By Dave Andrusko I’m beginning to think USA Today is the unofficial in-house publication of Compassion and Choices-formerly (and more honestly) known as the Hemlock Society. But the flip side for those of us committed to confronting and fending off the physician-assisted suicide movement is that in addition to gushy, free publicity for C&C, these …

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Suicide Push Not “Liberty on the March”

  By Wesley J. Smith The Hemlock Society Compassion and Choices spends millions a year–much from the culturally subversive George Soros–pushing the legalization of doctor-prescribed death. It is an ideological quest that divides the American people pretty much down the middle. Regardless of polling numbers–-which can vary based on how the questions are asked–-legalizing assisted …

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Suicide Advocates Seek to Influence Institute of Medicine

By Wesley J. Smith The euphemistically named Compassion and Choices–spawned out of the old Hemlock Society–is funded in the millions by those who want to make assisted suicide the law of the land. It’s well-paid leaders and staff never miss a bet to push the agenda. Here’s an example: An arm of the National Academy …

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