In an article originally posted in French in the Huffington Post, Aubert Martin compares "medical aid in dying" to the bloodletting prescribed in the Middle Ages.
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Aubert Martin examines media coverage of the debate on euthanasia in Quebec by asking several questions that remain without response.
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MONTREAL, Oct. 30, 2015 - The Physicians' Alliance against Euthanasia, the Living with Dignity network and the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition are coming together for a one day conference on Saturday October 31, 2015 at the Best Western Ville Marie hotel, to discuss our common concerns and directions.
The Quebec euthanasia experiment is scheduled to begin on December 10. The vast majority of physicians around the world have always rejected euthanasia, above all because it ...
Continue Reading → Montreal Symposium: Theory and Reality about Euthanasia
Vivre dans la Dignité and the Physicians’ Alliance against Euthanasia welcome the creation by the Canadian government, on July 17, of an external expert panel to study the questions of euthanasia and assisted suicide in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Carter decision, and to make recommendations to the government. The committee report is due at the end of the autumn.
Of the three panel members, two are prominent academics who have contributed greatly to improving the care of Canadians who ...
Montreal, February 6, 2015 - The citizen network Living with Dignity and the Physicians' Alliance against Euthanasia acknowledge today's ruling by the Supreme Court of Canada in Carter v. Canada (Attorney General). By stipulating that Kay Carter was within her rights to demand assisted suicide, and asking the Parliament of Canada to amend the Criminal Code to state that "medical aid in dying" is not a homicide, and therefore should not be penalized, the highest court in the land deeply ...