by APFLI | May 15, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
One positive lesson from Tuesday night is that assisted suicide should be struck from the progressive agenda. While voters re-elected Barack Obama, added two Democrat senators, elected an openly-lesbian senator in Wisconsin, supported or legalised same-sex marriage in...
by APFLI | May 15, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
“Jump off!” “Stop wasting our time, we’ve been here for ages, do us a favor!” the crowd gathered outside the McDonald’s restaurant shouted to the man 50 feet above them. The 38-year-old, after eleven hours of police negotiation,...
by APFLI | May 15, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
NEXT week, voters in Massachusetts will decide whether to adopt an assisted-suicide law. As a good pro-choice liberal, I ought to support the effort. But as a lifelong disabled person, I cannot. There are solid arguments in favor. No one will be coerced into taking a...
by APFLI | May 15, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
The natural law tells us that, in the context of health care, 1) food and water are basic treatment and care, and should not be withdrawn lightly; 2) morphine must not be used aggressively to hasten death when a patient is not near the time of death; and 3) pain...
by APFLI | May 15, 2015 | Imposed Death - Definitions / Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide / VSED
No doubt about it: Belgium is the place to be for creative applications of legalized euthanasia. Last year Belgian transplant surgeons revealed that they had harvested organs from four people who were voluntarily euthanized. Now it appears that one prisoner, a...
