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 | May 29, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
The British House of Lords voted 148-100 against a measure that would have legalized assisted suicide. The vote is a huge victory for pro-life advocates, disability groups and doctors who campaigned together to stop the bill from becoming law. Introduced by Lord...
by APFLI | May 26, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
A recent report published in the New England Journal of Medicine (May 10, 2007) has been reported by the media as stating that the practice of euthanasia in the Netherlands has dropped since it was formally legalized in 2002. When reading the actual report we learn of...
by APFLI | May 16, 2015 | Uncategorized
In one region of Belgium, over 30 percent of reported euthanasia cases were carried out without the consent of the patient, a study has found. At the same time, the overall number of official reported deaths by euthanasia are dramatically increasing in the country...
by APFLI | May 14, 2015 | Imposed Death - Definitions / Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide / VSED
Belgian Doctors: Lethal Drugs Should be Given to Patients Regardless of Family Wishes The Belgian Society of Intensive Care Medicine has asserted the right of doctors to give lethal doses of sedatives to patients they claim have “no prospect of a meaningful...