by APFLI | Jan 30, 2016 | Cloning - Archive, Eugenics / Race-Linked Abortion / Reproductive Racism, Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
Taking Stock: Where Are We Now? Taking stock of where one is at the beginning of a new project or a new year is a good idea. Where we are in the entire realm of bioethics is beyond the scope of a mere e-newsletter, but what follows are some landmarks discernible in...
by APFLI | Dec 16, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
This February [2015], The Supreme Court of Canada ruled unanimously that the Canadian law that makes it illegal for anyone to help people end their own lives should be amended to allow doctors to help in specific situations. The court gave federal and provincial...
by APFLI | Nov 1, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
In 2015, in Oregon, a bill has been introduced to expand the definition of ‘terminal disease’ in the state’s doctor-prescribed suicide law. Under the proposal, a patient who is predicted to die within one year — rather than the current six...
by APFLI | Nov 1, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
Even euthanasia supporters are calling developments in Belgium “worrisome” as a result of two, newly revealed cases that have been given formal approval for medically-induced death. Others see these cases as the tragic result of an ethical “slippery slope” that...
by APFLI | Oct 2, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
Perhaps you have heard about the execution within the past week of Kelly Renee Gissendaner, who had been the only woman on death row in Georgia. Did you know that the drug she received – pentobarbital – is one of the drugs commonly used in doctor-assisted suicides?...
