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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 ›

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September 14, 2020
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Autonomy or Abandoning the Mentally Ill?

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September 14, 2020
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A U.K. woman with anorexia is in danger of starving to death and courts there will not allow force-feeding to save her life because she has decision-making capacity. Read More ›

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September 4, 2020
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Canadian Disabled Seek Euthanasia Because of Poor Social Services

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September 4, 2020
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Disability-rights activists are some of the greatest and most effective opponents of assisted suicide/euthanasia, correctly identifying it as a form of discrimination. 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 28, 2020
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Hundreds of Sick Canadians Euthanized Over Loneliness

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July 28, 2020
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Good grief. We are told that euthanasia is “compassion.” But how compassionate is it when last year in Canada, hundreds of sick people were euthanized because of loneliness? Read More ›

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July 6, 2020
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The Deadly “Quality of Life” Ethic

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July 6, 2020
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Something evil happened recently in Austin. Michael Hickson, a forty-six-year-old African-American man with quadriplegia and a serious brain injury, was refused treatment at St. David’s Hospital South Austin while ill with COVID-19. Read More ›

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June 15, 2020
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Dutch MD Euthanized Dementia Patient Despite Being Told ‘No’

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June 15, 2020
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I have written before about Marinou Arends, the Dutch doctor who euthanized a woman with dementia struggling to stay alive. Readers may recall the doctor first drugged her patient’s coffee and then, when the woman awakened and fought against being killed, had the family hold the patient down while administering the lethal injection. Not only was she exonerated, but she was even praised by the judge. 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 ›