by APFLI | Jul 1, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
Comment: Compassion and Choices has a lethal game plan for forcing assisted suicide on the nation. Note this quote: “Despite the growing death-with-dignity fight in various states, Coombs Lee doesn’t expect that it will find itself in front of the Supreme Court...
by APFLI | Jul 1, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
Euthanasia laws in the Netherlands and Belgium took effect in 2002. What has occurred since that time is alarming to many inside and outside those countries. The Netherlands: A judge in Utrecht ordered the euthanasia death of an 80-year-old woman with dementia despite...
by APFLI | Jun 12, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
A recent study out of Belgium reports thousands of patients are killed against their will by their doctors. The study in the Journal of Medical Ethics found 1 in 60 patient deaths included someone who didn’t want to die, half were over the age of 80, and...
by APFLI | Jun 11, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
In 1997, Oregon became the first government in the world to legalize assisted suicide, allowing doctors to prescribe lethal prescriptions to terminally ill patients. Since then, 1,173 people have received a lethal prescription, and 752 of them have taken the...
by APFLI | Jun 11, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
After a European court issued a ruling saying a disabled patient can be starved to death against his will, his parents are vowing to fight it. Vincent Lambert, a tetraplegic patient who has been in a state of minimal consciousness in hospital for six years following a...
by APFLI | Jun 10, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
A British woman was given the mandatory minimum sentence (at least 9 years) for smothering a man to death. Heather Davidson (54) pled guilty to smothering David Paterson (81) to death on February 11, 2015. According to the York Press Davidson claimed that she was...
by APFLI | Jun 10, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
Almost 2% of ALL who die in Belgium… The bottom line of euthanasia consciousness is that killing is splendid way to end human suffering. Advocates say it is also about “choice.” But once one accepts the first destructive premise, what’s choice got to do with it?...
by APFLI | Jun 8, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
Members of Oregon’s Congressional delegation on 20July05 filed a brief with the top court asking it not to side with the Bush administration against allowing federally controlled drugs to be used in assisted suicides. Sen. Ron Wyden and Reps. Wu, Blumenauer,...
by APFLI | Jun 8, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
A new analysis of Dutch doctors by researchers in the Netherlands finds that they are more frequently using euthanasia to kill sick children, sometimes taking the country’s assisted suicide laws as far as they will allow. The European nation legalized euthanasia...
by APFLI | Jun 6, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
The battle lines are being set for what promises to be highly emotional, acerbic debates in both the British and Canadian parliaments in October. The topic: legalization of euthanasia and assisted suicide. In Britain, the euthanasia debate flared earlier this year...
by APFLI | Jun 6, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
NY Supreme Court Judge Ritholtz has ruled that tube feeding constitutes basic care, NOT medical treatment, and that tube feeding is no different from washing, turning, or grooming a dying patient. [The Jewish Week, 14Apr05; Rt to Life GC,...
by APFLI | Jun 6, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
Australian euthanasia campaigner Philip Nitschke plans to transfer his operations & hold workshops at New Zealand’s Voluntary Euthanasia Society in Auckland. Later, he hopes to hold “peaceful pill” workshops in New Zealand teaching participants...
by APFLI | Jun 5, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
The Commission may allow doctors to euthanize more “seriously suffering” newborn babies they believe will not live even with medical care and attention. Euthanasia of newborns is still technically illegal but the commission, which would consist of 3...
by APFLI | Jun 2, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
A California state Senate committee [28 May 2015] signed off on a bill to legalize assisted suicide and has sent the bill to the full state Senate for a vote. The Democrat-dominated California Senate Appropriations Committee approved SB 128, “physician-assisted...
by APFLI | Jun 2, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
As state legislators across America grapple with proposed laws on euthanasia, South Dakota State Rep. Steve Hickey (R-Sioux Falls) – facing a terminal illness himself – has no qualms sharing exactly where he stands on the issue. Yesterday, Rep. Hickey sent a letter in...
by APFLI | Jun 2, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
Pro-life campaigners in Ireland are preparing for the battle to introduce assisted suicide into Irish law in the coming weeks. Right-to-die campaigners have drafted a Bill which they intend to present to the Irish parliament in a bid to allow someone to assist in the...
by APFLI | Jun 1, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
The VT House Human Services Committee heard testimony recently on bill H.168, the proposal to legalize physician-assisted suicide. Much of the testimony was about patients with overwhelming suffering during the dying process. These are sad and tragic cases; those...
by APFLI | Jun 1, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
On 10March03, the 49-yr-old wife of Jerry Savoy said he was unconscious at their home. He died nine days later. An investigation showed that there was an extremely high level of insulin in Savoy’s body; authorities say that is what killed him. She was arrested...
by APFLI | Jun 1, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
A survey conducted by a doctors group finds that the British public favors allowing patients to receive food and water if they have asked in advance not to have it removed. The polling results are similar to those in a recent survey conducted in the USA. First Do No...
by APFLI | Jun 1, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
KY Supreme Court decided that families of permanently unconscious patients may have their lives ended by removing their life support, even if a person had not declared a desire for this to happen. Persons in persistent vegetative state (still very open to...