Pages tagged "Belgium"
The Birds and the Bees and the how-to-die talk.
Dec 08, 2013
German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer. "The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children."
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Belgium's experience with euthanasia teaches bitter lessons
Dec 06, 2013
This opinion piece in the Montreal Gazette was written to warn the people and legislators in Quebec about the insurmountable problems of euthanasia.
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Belgium introduces death penalty for minors. It is called 'Euthanasia'
Nov 29, 2013
European human rights lawyer J.C. von Krempach writes: (from the blog )Turtle Bay and Beyond
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Euthanasia: we can live without it...
Nov 28, 2013
EPC Europe director, Kevin Fitzpatrick OBE writes for CNN
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Belgium's incremental extension & trivialization of killing to extend to children
Nov 28, 2013
News reports today suggest that the Belgian Parliament is on step closer to amending their euthanasia laws to include people with dementia and children. The
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Belgian activist warns of slippery slope as euthanasia becomes 'normal'
Nov 26, 2013
Canada's National Post newspaper, continuing its expose on euthanasia, interviews Dr Tom Mortier. Tom's mother was euthanased for clinical depression by Dr Wim Distelmans.
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Belgium's death evangelist
Nov 24, 2013
In my last post I mentioned Dr Wim Distelmans, the Belgian oncologist who has been pushing at the boundaries of the Belgian death laws. I mentioned how he is also head of the Belgian Euthanasia Commission - a conflict of interest which explains why his recent actions have not been scrutinized and why, over the last ten years, no doctor has been brought to heel for breeches in the Belgian law (when there's ample evidence of abuse).
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The 'Great Debate' in Brussels
Nov 23, 2013
On the 13 of November in the Goethe Institute in Brussels, Alex Schadenberg, chair of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition International, debated noted pro-euthanasia medical academic, Dr Jan Bernheim. The panel discussion afterwards included Carine Brochier from the European Bioethics Institute (on the no side) and Professor Etienne Vermeersch, one of the authors of the Belgian euthanasia legislation and a government advisor.th
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EPC Europe Director sets context for euthanasia debate: are disabled people right in being afraid?
Nov 17, 2013
Dr Kevin Fitzpatrick OBE, director of the newly formed spoke in Brussels both at the launch of the new organisation and in setting the context for the great debate later that same evening. What follows is Kevin's chilling assessment of euthanasia and disabled people:Euthanasia Prevention Coalition - Europe
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Schadenberg flexes EPC's 'muscles in Brussels' as pro death advocates wilt under the spotlight
Nov 17, 2013
Following the successful launch of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition - Europe initiative at the EU Parliament in Brussels, Alex Schadenberg and Belgian academic Carine Brochier from the debated two leading pro-euthanasia academics at the Goethe Institute.
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