by APFLI | Jun 2, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
Pro-life campaigners in Ireland are preparing for the battle to introduce assisted suicide into Irish law in the coming weeks. Right-to-die campaigners have drafted a Bill which they intend to present to the Irish parliament in a bid to allow someone to assist in the...
by APFLI | Jun 1, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
The French senate has approved a law granting terminally ill patients the right to end life; it allows doctors to stop giving medical assistance when it “has no effect other than maintaining life artificially”. It had already been approved by the lower...
by APFLI | May 20, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
Jocelyn Downie, the Canada Research Chair of Health Law and Policy said at an End-of-Life Ethics & Decision-Making conference at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg yesterday that doctors do not have the legal right to withdraw life-sustaining medical treatment...
by APFLI | May 17, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
[Comment: Note that Compassion and Choices (aka Hemlock) is once again unperturbed by outrageous problems with assisted suicide: “It’s going to be highly unlikely that people are going to use his service. And we don’t charge. He charges...
by APFLI | May 17, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
[Comment: Unfortunately, it is becoming routine in the US that doctors (or others) who kill are aquitted or not charged at all. This leads to defacto euthanasia without changing laws against euthanasia/assisted suicide. A few years ago in Missouri, a prosector wanted...
