On October 5th, the health committee of Washington DC’s state council will vote on a Dignity in Dying Act brought forward by one of its Democratic members. Like many proposed doctor-assisted-dying laws debated across America in the past year, it is modelled on that of Oregon.
Continue reading More states are considering laws granting the terminally ill the right to dieDoctor-assisted suicide is legal, but Christian institutions have a long history of receiving public funding and yet refusing to discuss this practice.
Continue reading Catholic hospitals can’t avoid talking about physician-assisted suicide anymoreJewish General Hospital (JGH) physician Michael Bouhadana left little doubt on where he stands on medical aid in dying (MAD). The acronym is apt, because requiring doctors to end the lives of patients who request it is “madness,” he believes.
Continue reading Medical aid in dying is ‘madness,’ JGH doctor saysA Washington state psychotherapist relates the chilling story of how her disabled client died.
Continue reading Assisted suicide, up close and personalNOTE: The original article was published in French in the Huffintgon Post on September 29, 2016 (read original article here >>).
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Everyone must push in the same direction. That is how we develop a consensus in Quebec. What counts is that an idea progresses down its path.
Thus, less than a year after the implementation of the law on “medical assisted death”, the proponents of euthanasia-on-demand are already attacking the Commission charged with monitoring its implementation. They are preying ...
Continue reading Euthanasia: all aboard!