by APFLI | May 29, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
A flood of lawsuits challenging lethal injection as cruel and unusual has stalled executions in some states and may prompt others to abandon them. And a Supreme Court ruling last week made it easier for death-row prisoners to file such suits. At the core of the issue...
by APFLI | May 20, 2015 | Eugenics / Race-Linked Abortion / Reproductive Racism, Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
Dutch paediatric neurosurgeon Rob de Jong, in collaboration with peers from several other countries, has expressed his concern at the practice in the Netherlands of carrying out euthanasia on some babies born with spina bifida in an article in the medical journal...
by APFLI | May 15, 2015 | Eugenics / Race-Linked Abortion / Reproductive Racism
I read a very disturbing article titled “New prenatal test is bringing eugenics back to Germany,” and I could not help but think of the famous quote from American philosopher George Santayana: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” This month...
by APFLI | May 13, 2015 | Imposed Death - Definitions / Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide / VSED
Comment: If death penalty opponents are so critical of the drugs used in lethal injection executions because of the length of time and suffering involved, why don’t they just ask the assisted suicide supporters for their alleged “humane” drug regimen? One likely...
by APFLI | Jan 26, 2011 | Abortion - Archive
