by APFLI | May 16, 2015 | Uncategorized
Organs may have been removed from deceased people without their consent after a data-handling error by the NHS. The blunder meant 800,000 people on the UK donor register may have had their wishes about the use of organs for transplant wrongly recorded. The Sunday...
by APFLI | May 16, 2015 | Eugenics / Race-Linked Abortion / Reproductive Racism
Democrat Rep. Bart Stupak is spearheading pro-life opposition within his party to House passage of the Senate’s health-care bill, which provides for publicly funded abortions. While leaving the members of his “Stu-PAC” unnamed, Stupak tallied them at...
by APFLI | May 16, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
An Illinois senator is pushing legislation that would allow doctors to harvest organs from citizens who have not explicitly given consent for the procedure. The Journal Star reported Monday that a hearing was scheduled this week for Sen. Dale Risinger’s bill...
by APFLI | May 16, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
Bioethicists attempting to define people in supposed PVS as “brain dead” and source of organs Many people will have read the story of Rom Houben, the Belgium man who was diagnosed as being in a permanent vegetative state (PVS) for 23 years, but who in fact...
by APFLI | May 16, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
[This article appears flippant. However, the information is worth ignoring the flippancy.] Electric circuits will break your heart every time. Take my cellphone (please): it went out in the rain a few weeks ago and then lay neglected in a sopping wet coat pocket...