In the not-too-distant future we are all going to have to ramp up efforts to fight euthanasia in Canada.
Continue Reading → Euthanasia: The stakes are insanely high
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Other provinces across Canada are finding ways to protect the conscience of health-care workers as well as respect patient decisions with regard to euthanasia/assisted suicide, but Ontario’s Bill 84 totally lacks this kind of protection.
Continue Reading → Assisted death bill must accommodate docs’ faith
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Hippocrates, Judge Gorsuch, and the Autonomy Fallacy: Ronald Pies reflects on the Hippocratic oath, how it has shaped medical practice, and on Judge Neil Gorsuch’s appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Continue Reading → Deferring to the Mastery of Death
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The Arkansas government is preparing to execute eight death-row prisoners in a ten-day span, before one of its lethal-injection drugs expires. But an additional set of trauma and peril must be accounted for as well: The rapid schedule will put an extraordinary burden on the men and women required by the state to carry out this most solemn act.
Continue Reading → Former Warden: Arkansas Execution Rush Is Dangerous and Risky
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When an anti-euthanasia speaker at a doctors' conference is prevented from speaking, you know that something is very wrong.
Continue Reading → Shutting up by shouting down
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