Search results for "euthanasia"
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6.6KAnalysisBelgian doctors claimed a woman was autistic, then euthanized her
In Belgium, assisted suicide is shockingly common, and since being decriminalized in 2002, the circumstances under which someone can be killed have...
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30.8KIssuesDutch doctor who forcibly euthanized dementia patient to be prosecuted
Last year, a Dutch doctor made international headlines after she euthanized an elderly woman against her will. The patient, a 74-year-old woman...
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999Human RightsStranger gives £100,000 for UK boy to get life-saving cancer treatment in U.S.
Last May, four-year-old Zac Oliver, who lives in the United Kingdom, was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia. After his family...
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3.6KHuman InterestNurses launch program at Georgetown to ensure that no one dies alone
The act of dying is not something most people anticipate with excitement. Further making death something to dread is the idea of...
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3.6KInvestigativeAWFUL: Government continues research using aborted babies old enough to live outside womb
The National Institutes of Health — a part of the federal Department of Health and Human Services — signed a federal contract...
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835Human RightsPope Francis: Abortion ‘is like hiring a hitman to solve a problem’
During his weekly general audience on Wednesday, October 10, 2018, in St. Peter’s Square, Pope Francis once again spoke out against abortion....
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128.8KIssuesSick children in Canada may soon be euthanized without parental consent
UPDATE 10/14/18: Adam Rapoport, co-author of the report told CTV News that it is incorrect for news agencies to say they would be...
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5.4KAnalysisOregon’s painkiller policy sparks fear that more may seek assisted suicide
Oregon was the first state to legalize assisted suicide for the chronically and incurably ill. One common argument in support of assisted...
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61.6KHuman RightsOutrageous: Bioethicist says parents may have ‘right’ to kill born children
The field of bioethics seems to be less and less concerned about what is considered ethical in medicine, and more and more...
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5.4KInvestigativeDoctor sees tiny living baby ‘swimming’ in amniotic sac after ectopic pregnancy
In 1970, Fordham law professor Robert M. Byrn detailed his objections to abortion in a case published in the Notre Dame Law Review. Byrn,...
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2.1KIssuesFamilies of assisted suicide victims plead for the killing to end
Proponents of assisted suicide say it should be legal so terminally ill people can die peaceful deaths, as opposed to long, painful...
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1.0KGuest ColumnBrutal: Doctors say assisted suicide may involve nausea, vomiting, gasping
(LifeSiteNews) Assisted suicide is not a “quick, peaceful death without serious complications,” two physicians wrote in MD Magazine, warning that it can take...
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2.0KIssuesCalifornia Senate bill allows encouraging terminally ill to choose suicide
UPDATE, 9/23: Gov. Jerry Brown has signed the bill into law. In 2015, California legalized assisted suicide, a decision that was briefly...
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3.6KInternational
UK horror: Patients in ‘vegetative state’ can now be killed without consent
The United Kingdom may not have legalized assisted suicide yet, but a new court ruling indicates the country may have skipped right...
