The parents of sick baby Charlie Gard are reportedly concerned the lawyer appointed to represent their baby son heads a euthanasia charity. Victoria Butler-Cole, who speaks on Charlie’s behalf in court, is chairman of Compassion in Dying, a sister organisation to Dignity in Dying.
In the year since euthanasia became legal, we have witnessed a powerful political push to normalize it as part of medicine in Canada. Yet many doctors remain opposed to the practice. Most would like to see it rigorously limited. And some, for reasons of personal and/or professional conscience, refuse categorically to be part of it.
Continue Reading → Conscience and Canadian doctors
Euthanasia is a contentious issue and if there is one thing we can’t afford to do, it is to sit on the sidelines.
Continue Reading → Narelle Henson: Step off sidelines in euthanasia debate
Baroness Ilora Finlay, a Welsh doctor and Member of the British House of Lords, gives her perspective on euthanasia legalization.
Continue Reading → The law must protect, doctors must care, and euthanasia undermines both
With the push to legalise euthanasia gaining momentum in states across Australia, it’s a chilling end-of-life strategy, with grave implications according to Catholic ethicists.
Continue Reading → Triple suicide on Gold Coast prompts euthanasia concerns