Article by Aubert Martin on the alarming lack of safeguards and oversight on assisted suicide in Quebec.
Continue reading Two years of euthanasia in Quebec: the factsFEB
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Article by Aubert Martin on the alarming lack of safeguards and oversight on assisted suicide in Quebec.
Continue reading Two years of euthanasia in Quebec: the factsThe year 2018 is off to a very bad start for supporters of euthanasia as new disturbing cases have surfaced in Belgium and the Netherlands, where euthanasia has been legal for several years.
So far, apart from a recent exception, the oversight committees in both of these countries have always been able to classify controversial cases without following them up, hoping surely that time would erase from collective memory these grey areas that smear the aura of euthanasia.
This time, however, the ...
Continue reading Hide these abuses that we can not see…2017 comes to an end with a final month representative of the ideological porridge that sprouts in our society: normalizing euthanasia. Indeed, CBC (once again) aired propaganda programs supporting of assisted suicide, and two complacent articles suggesting that we should (already!) consider expanding the assisted suicide law, basically for people “tired of living”.
Otherwise, a study was published in the magazine Le Spécialiste, the official magazine of the Fédération des médecins spécialistes du Québec (FMSQ), to present the ...
Continue reading Statistics reduced to porridgeA medical ethicist has resigned from a Dutch regional assessment committee for euthanasia over a law which allows non-consenting demented patients to be euthanised. For ten years Berna van Baarsen helped to assess whether euthanasia had been performed in accordance with the law in the North Holland region.
Continue reading Dissent in Dutch euthanasia bureaucracy: