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 | Jun 11, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
After a European court issued a ruling saying a disabled patient can be starved to death against his will, his parents are vowing to fight it. Vincent Lambert, a tetraplegic patient who has been in a state of minimal consciousness in hospital for six years following a...
by APFLI | Jun 8, 2015 | Eugenics / Race-Linked Abortion / Reproductive Racism, Human Development, Imposed Death - Definitions / Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide / VSED
A study published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine demonstrates widespread discriminatory denial of life-preserving medical treatment to premature infants based on fear that if assisted to live they might have disabilities – in defiance of protective...
by APFLI | May 29, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
As of 1Sept05, MO Medicaid will no longer pay for feeding tubes, nutritional formula, breathing machines, canes, crutches, walkers, wheelchair batteries and other medical equipment necessary for people with disabilities. The medical equipment and services are now...
