by APFLI | Aug 6, 2015 | Abortion - Archive
Politico is reporting that Advanced Bioscience Resources (ABR) has had contracts with the Food and Drug Administration and National Institute of Health since 2009. ABR is a nonprofit fetal tissue supplier with whom former Planned Parenthood Pacific Southwest medical...
by APFLI | Jul 17, 2015 | Abortion - Archive
You have likely seen the videos exposing Planned Parenthood for selling fetal tissue and organs. How could anyone in their right mind defend these actions? Some have tried to calm the public by arguing that it is not illegal as long as the payments are for...
by APFLI | May 16, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
A Quebec philosopher and ethicist has proposed that governments promote organ harvesting by offering tax credits to the individual’s family members. But according to one expert on ‘brain death,’ people are right to have a healthy fear of organ harvesting and, rather...
by APFLI | May 16, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
An Illinois senator is pushing legislation that would allow doctors to harvest organs from citizens who have not explicitly given consent for the procedure. The Journal Star reported Monday that a hearing was scheduled this week for Sen. Dale Risinger’s bill...
by APFLI | May 16, 2015 | Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
The practice of transplanting organs from patients who die after voluntary euthanasia is becoming more common in Belgium. A leading specialist, Dirk Van Raemdonck, told a conference in Brussels recently that there had already been nine cases. A year ago, a team at a...
