by APFLI | May 28, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
This is an excellent column by Colleen Carroll Campbell, a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC). Apparently, a teenage “suicide craze” has hit the Netherlands and the government wonders why. But Campbell knows. The Dutch do “not seem...
by APFLI | May 28, 2015 | Diagnosis - Brain Function / Coma / Persistant Vegetative State / Locked In Syndrome / Awakenings
A young boy, who had previously been diagnosed as being in a “permanent vegetative state,” has awakened from a 22 month-long coma and is breathing on his own. Devon Rivers collapsed in a seizure during a phys-ed class in 2004 and his condition was never explained,...
by APFLI | May 26, 2015 | Resources
Turning the Tide, produced by the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition and Salt and Light television media foundation, was designed to change the way secular society perceives the issues of euthanasia and assisted suicide. Secular society views the issues of euthanasia and...
by APFLI | May 26, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
I like Stephen Fletcher. Our brief encounters, typically in airports or the occasional public event, are always friendly and cordial. It is hard not to admire him. Despite quadriplegia, he has found the strength and determination to serve his country as a member of...
by APFLI | May 24, 2015 | Responses - Declarations / DPA / Advance Directives / Talking Points
WHEREAS the National Association of Pro-life Nurses acknowledges the value of all human life from conception to natural death regardless of the circumstances or physical capabilities of that life, AND WHEREAS we reject the prevailing notion that some lives are less...
