by APFLI | Oct 12, 2015 | Abortion - Archive, Abuse / Violence / Forced Abortion
Sunday, 11th October 2015 marked the International Day of the Girl Child. Perhaps the saddest aspect of this day is the fact that it’s still needed. When the United Nations General Assembly first designated the Day in December, 2011, the plan was to recognize the...
by APFLI | Sep 9, 2004 | Imposed Death - Definitions / Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide / VSED
Seventeen (17) national disability organizations filed a friend-of-the-court brief, the third disability brief in the case. These groups are concerned that the critical implications for our individual rights in the health-care system have been obscured by political...
by APFLI | Feb 26, 2004 | Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
1 RIGHT TO LIVE — L. Burke, 44, is terminally ill. He has asked a court for the right to live. In the not too distant future he will present his family and his doctors with an impossible dilemma. They...
