THE PRESSURE TO DIE QUICKLY IN THE UK

March 24, 2022

“More than 1,300 patients a year are having NHS funding for their palliative care withdrawn after living longer than expected, BBC analysis shows.” So began a BBC article explaining how 47% of all patients who had their palliative care funding reviewed between 2018 and 2021 completely removed. A further 13%...

EUTHANASIA SHOT DOWN IN UK PARLIAMENT AGAIN

March 22, 2022

While you won’t hear much about it in the mainstream media, the fight to protect life has had a huge win in the United Kingdom. The Tablet, a Catholic UK outlet reports that for the 12th time since 1997 the British government has rejected a move to legalise euthanasia. Amendment...

HOW CAN WE EXPECT SAFEGUARDS TO BE ENFORCED WHEN OUT AND OUT KILLING ISN’T PUNISHED?

March 17, 2022

Oregon is held up as the ‘gold standard’ for assisted suicide laws, but the recent case of a woman who pleaded guilty to killing her mother receiving no prison time shows what happens when a society considers the killing of the elderly to be acceptable. 51-year-old Cherie Lerae Chase this...

WARNING OVER LENIENT SENTENCES

March 17, 2022

HOPE only just told the story of the Oregon woman given no prison time for causing the “suffocation and death” of her mother who was coughing up blood and in pain. We said that this was the side effect of societies where assisted suicide is legal, because the idea that...

EXPERT WARNS EUTHANASIA LEADS TO “CASUAL DEATH”

March 17, 2022

Notre Dame Professor of Bioethics Margaret Somerville has warned that legalising euthanasia leads to a casualising of death, with profound implications for our society as a result. Writing for Mercatornet, Professor Somerville recollected the story of two Canadians who witnessed “a doctor delivering a lethal injection to a person they...

DOCTORS SUE CALIFORNIAN AUTHORITIES OVER CONSCIENCE RIGHTS

March 10, 2022

More than 90 per cent of Christian doctors in California have said that they would stop practising medicine rather than be forced to participate in assisted suicide. This is the astonishing revelation made in a lawsuit filed by the Christian Medical & Dental Associations (CMDA) against the Californian Attorney-General, the...

ACTIVISTS PUSH EUTHANASIA FOR ANOREXIA NERVOSA SUFFERERS

March 8, 2022

The authors argue that Anorexia Nervosa (AN) should be just cause for assisted suicide in “terminal” cases, and attempt to link assisted suicide with proper palliative care. Designating terminal AN may more readily enable patients to receive palliative care, hospice care, and emotional and practical resources for loved ones, as...

BILL TO EXPAND REACH NARROWLY DEFEATED

March 4, 2022

Washington State residents on the side of life are breathing a sigh of relief this week as a bill that would have removed some major safeguards in its assisted suicide laws was defeated. House Bill 1141 was first introduced into the Washington State House in January 2021. HB-1141, as originally...

CALLS TO MAKE EUTHANASIA DOCTORS CRIMINALLY LIABLE

March 4, 2022

Canadian woman Donna Duncan ended her life using Canada’s euthanasia scheme (known as “Medical Assistance in Dying” or “MAiD”) on 29 October 2021. Her family however, is devastated; they contend that their mum didn’t have a terminal illness at all but “rather that she suffered from situational depression stemming from...

Do suicides really go down when euthanasia is legalised?

March 2, 2022

A new study published in the Journal of Ethics in Mental Health contradicts claims made by euthanasia advocates that suicide rates either remain constant or decrease after euthanasia and assisted suicide are legalised. A 2017 article published by two euthanasia proponents, Matthew Lowe and Jocelyn Downie claimed that after euthanasia...