by APFLI | May 23, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
Almost 750 Oregonians died from violence in 2005, with suicide accounting for the majority of those deaths. State health officials report that 555 Oregon residents killed themselves in 2005 — more than five times the amount who died from homicide. Oregon had...
by APFLI | May 23, 2015 | Abortion Industry / Planned Parenthood
In 1973, Malcolm Potts, MD, the first medical director of the International Planned Parenthood Federation, stated outright: “As people turn to contraception, there will be a rise, not a fall, in the abortion rate.” And he was right. The number of US abortions doubled...
by APFLI | May 23, 2015 | Human Development
NBC Nightly News (5/21, story 8, 3:15, Holt) reported on “concerns” that a “new kind of genetic test given to pregnant women to check the health of their unborn” babies may “have been oversold and misunderstood.” Correspondent Kate Snow reported that “prenatal DNA...
by APFLI | May 23, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
[Comment: Years ago, the head of the Oregon Medical Association admitted that it was a mistake when the group adopted a “neutral” position on physician-assisted suicide. When the Oregon referendum was voted on, the OMA changed its’ position to opposition to PAS but it...
by APFLI | May 23, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
A Dutch appeals court acquitted a 74-year-old man earlier this month of the murder of his mother in 2008, because he acted in an “emergency situation”: the woman wanted euthanasia and had not obtained it from her family doctor. The decision is a surprising one, even...
