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October 13, 2020
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Netherlands Gets Ready for Child Euthanasia

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October 13, 2020
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The Netherlands is about to expand its euthanasia law to allow children ages 1–12 to be killed by doctors. (Children older than 12 already can be euthanized). Read More ›

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October 7, 2020
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Doctor Kills Canadian Man Whose Wife Asked Court to Prevent Euthanasia

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October 7, 2020
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I wrote a bit ago here about the Canadian woman legally trying to prevent her husband from being killed in a euthanasia homicide. The courts rejected her appeal and now the man is dead. Read More ›

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September 23, 2020
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Vatican: No Sacraments for People Choosing Euthanasia

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September 23, 2020
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The Vatican has made it clear that euthanasia and the Sacraments are not compatible. Read More ›

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September 17, 2020
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Assisted Suicide is Never a Treatment for Mental Illness

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September 17, 2020
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Addressing the UK’s All-Party Parliamentary Pro-Life Group, Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Wesley Smith said that activists and pressure groups often use fear, in particular fear-mongering on the difficulties of death, to push through their agenda. Read More ›

Gavel and Stethoscope on Gradated Background

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August 19, 2020
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Wife Loses Lawsuit to Prevent Husband’s Euthanasia

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August 19, 2020
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Euthanasia/assisted suicide subverts family cohesion. For example, what if one spouse wants to be made dead, and that decision is opposed by the other? Read More ›

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July 14, 2020
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Bill to Increase Penalties for Some Assisted Suicides Passes Pennsylvania House

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July 14, 2020
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Assisted suicide is illegal in Pennsylvania. Now, after a depressed girl was apparently encouraged to kill herself in an Internet “pro choice” chat room, the state’s House has passed a bill increasing penalties in particular cases for such encouragement. Read More ›

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June 2, 2020
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Doctors Now Assist Suicides via Zoom

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June 2, 2020
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We are always told that “strict guidelines will protect against abuse.” It’s always been baloney. As sold, assisted suicide was supposed to only be engaged between doctors of long-standing and patients well known to the prescriber. Read More ›

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April 17, 2020
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The Jack Kevorkian Plague

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April 17, 2020
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Death is in the air. No, I am not referring to the coronavirus. The pathogen I mean is a cultural pandemic, the embrace of doctor-prescribed suicide and of administered homicide as acceptable responses to human suffering. Let’s call it the “Jack Kevorkian Plague,” after the late pathologist who in the 1990s became world-famous by assisting the suicides of some 130 people. Before Kevorkian, the euthanasia movement was mostly a fringe phenomenon. After Kevorkian, although certainly not because of him alone, assisted suicide had been made legal in Oregon, and large swaths of the American public accepted the practice. Now, a mere 20 years later, lethal-injection euthanasia is legal and popular in Belgium, Canada, Colombia, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Doctor-assisted suicide Read More ›