Generation that Aborted Will be Euthanized
Call it the new population control. Dr. Peter Saunders of Christian Medical Fellowship looks at the combination of demographic decline, financial crises and disrespect for life and comes to a sobering conclusion: The generation that killed its children will in turn be killed by its own children. In other words legalised abortion will lead to [...]
Forget Death Panels. Have You Considered Applying for Euthanasia?
Perhaps a piece of news that has not received much attention… Twin brothers in Belgium were euthanized after applying for euthanasia because they suffered from glaucoma. That’s right, they applied for euthanasia because they had glaucoma. A Belgian official said they may have not suffered physisically, but they did suffer psychologically. Imagine! In Belgium euthanasia [...]
Belgium Leads in Organ Transplants from those Euthanized
Deaths from “voluntary euthanasia” in Belgium are approximated at 2 percent, – 2,000 annually. At a recent conference in Brussels, a Belgian doctor reported that organ transplants are being done on euthanized patients and that Belgium leads in this practice. Dr. Van Raemdonck reported that nine successful lung transplants from “voluntary euthanized” patients have been performed since [...]
New Human Exceptionalism Blog
Good news–Wesley Smith’s blog on human exceptionalism is up on National Review Online. The point of today’s post: “Once a society agrees that some suicides are good, the categories of the killable never stops expanding.”
Assisted Suicide Performed in UK Despite Illegality
A report in the BBC quoted Arie Nieuwenhuijzen Kruseman, head of the Royal Dutch Medical Association saying that British doctors euthanize patients despite it being illegal in the UK. These comments came after the UK High Court ruled for a second time against its legalization. Kruseman said he has been told by doctors that they are [...]
Loving the Elderly
When abortion was thrust upon the U.S., pro-lifers realized we needed to help women making the life-and-death decisions just as much as we worked legislatively. It’s the loving thing to do. With euthanasia fast approaching as important a threat as abortion, we are again challenged. How can we show love to the dying? Susan Yoshihara [...]
First Babies, Then the Elderly . . .
As activists gear up for a global summit in London to pressure governments to spend more money on family planning, a British doctor is claiming thousands of elderly patients are killed each year due to a lack of hospital beds and caring nursing staff. Some say the population control movement is dead. These events show [...]
Euthanasia: The European Court Must Rule on Two New Cases
Dr Grégor Puppinck Director of the ECLJ In the coming months, the Council of Europe and the European Court of Human Rights will once again have to rule on the issues of euthanasia and assisted suicide. Two cases, currently pending, will soon be decided by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR – Koch v. [...]
Abortion and eugenics before the European Court of Human Rights
The Court is called upon to adjudicate on the existence of a “right to eugenic abortion” Strasbourg, 4 April 2011 – The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) currently has before it an unprecedented number of cases relating to abortion. Because the principles established by the Court in its case law are binding on the [...]
The European Parliament’s Week For Life 2012: The Program
Will the UN condemn this US ruling?
I am not one to argue the UN has any business meddling in the domestic affairs of states. But let us see if it will rise to this occasion. The UN is about to celebrate Down Syndrome Day. And just in time to condemn a Portland, Oregon jury who awarded parents $2.9 million for the “wrongful birth” [...]
First comes the theory, then the practice: why academic writing is not innocent
Francesca Minerva and Alberto Giubilini, who wrote is an “academic” paper that killing newborn babies should be as permissible as abortion, say that they have received death threats. Given that this blog has criticized their paper, I think it is appropriate for ourselves to distance ourselves from such threats. Death threats are not the right [...]
Infanticide: Logical Outcome of the Commitment to a “Right to Abortion”
A few days ago, J.C. von Krempach brought to attention an article in the Journal of Medical Ethics entitled: “After-birth abortion: why should the baby live?” arguing that the newborn baby has the same right to life as a fetus- i.e. none. Contrary to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the authors assert, among others, [...]
Netherlands: we have euthanasia, but no place for coma patients…
The Dutch public is offended over remarks made by Rick Santorum in a TV talkshow: “In the Netherlands, people wear different bracelets if they are elderly. And the bracelet is: ‘Do not euthanize me.’ Because they have voluntary euthanasia in the Netherlands but half of the people who are euthanized — ten percent of all [...]
Netherlands: a prominent euthanasia case ahead?
Dutch Prince Johan Friso, injured in an avalanche last week, is in a coma and may never regain consciousness, doctors treating him in Austria say. The Netherlands were the first country in the world to legalize euthanasia. Originally, the intention was to limit the practice to cases were terminally ill patients themselves explicitly expressed a [...]
Major victory for life in Europe: Euthanasia must always be prohibited
The ECLJ welcomes the adoption, by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) of a Resolution setting the principle that “Euthanasia, in the sense of the intentional killing by act or omission of a dependent human being for his or her alleged benefit, must always be prohibited.” This is the first time, in [...]
The Salvation Army Loses Its Sight
From the time of its founding by William Booth, the Salvation Army sought to help the poor, homeless, destitute and outcast. Booth endured beatings and humiliation for fearlessly proclaiming Christ, Who was born into the world through a poor, homeless teenager. The Salvation Army loves the unlovely. Which makes the latest news about the Salvation [...]
Assisted Suicide OK in Switzerland if Not Done Under “Selfish Motives”
The Patients Right Council points out an important distinction in euthanasia/assisted suicide policy in Switzerland. In Oregon, Belgium and the Netherlands, a medical reason is necessary. In Switzerland there are no parameters. In fact there is no law legalizing assisted suicide, only a law that lays out parameters for punishing someone who assists in euthanizing [...]
Belgium Government Official Wants Euthanasia Law Expanded to Include Minors
Belgium’s chairman of the Federal Committee on Euthanasia, Wim Distelmans, sent an open letter to Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo last month “asking him to re-open a national debate on euthanasia” and update the parameters that qualify a person to be euthanized. Belgium’s most aggressive pro-euthanasia advocacy group, Humanistisch-Vrijzinnige Vereniging (Humanist-Liberal Association), wants the 2002 [...]
An International Right to Die?
This week the UN’s working group on aging is meeting in New York. On the agenda is consideration of a new treaty for older persons. UN statistics show that the number of people over 60 will double by 2050 and be even higher in the developing world–63% to 78%. One out of four will be [...]