by APFLI | May 19, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
An open letter by doctors, circulated before Christmas, asking that Eluana Englaro be spared death by dehydration has grown from 44 to over 700 signatures. The letter says that physicians have a “professional and scientific duty” to provide hydration and nutrition to...
by APFLI | May 16, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
There is such a thing as the “slippery slope” and it’s alive and well in the Netherlands. Once the country legalized doctor-induced euthanasia for physically suffering adults, courts and medical professionals began expanding the practice to include...
by APFLI | May 16, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
As campaigners use the “hard cases” of severely disabled people to push for legalised assisted suicide and euthanasia in Britain, Pink and McNeilly urged sufferers not to give up on life. When Kerry Pink, an interior designer, was 35 in 1997 she fell ill with an...
by APFLI | May 16, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
Margo MacDonald has agreed to remove the disability clause from her assisted suicide bill A proposal to allow disabled people in Scotland to kill themselves is set to be dropped following pressure from disability campaigners. Bill Scott, Policy Officer at the campaign...
by APFLI | Feb 22, 2007 | Legislation / Court Cases
Pro-life advocates protested at the district offices of a state legislator who wants to make California the next state to legalize assisted suicide after Oregon voters pushed through a law there. They said assisted suicide brings the elderly and disabled death instead...
