Respect Life Sunday
Friday, October 03, 2008 8:01 AM
(CNS)
This coming Sunday is Respect Life Sunday.
As pro-life Americans prepared this week for the annual event, Cardinal Justin Rigali of Philadelphia issued a statement marking the occasion.
Cardinal Rigali, chairman of the Committee on Pro-Life Activities of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), highlighted several areas of particular concern this year.
One is assisted... READ MORE
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Death Without Dignity
Friday, October 10, 2008 12:39 PM
Disabled people rally against assisted suicide. (Reuters)
Depressed people with terminal illnesses are being given lethal drugs by doctors in Oregon, without having been assessed or treated for their depression.
That’s the finding of a study published Oct. 8 by the British Medical Journal.
Oregon’s “Death With Dignity” legislation contains provisions that say terminally ill patients who request lethal medication should be referred to a... READ MORE
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Just Die, Please
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 10:47 AM
It'll only hurt for a moment, then you won't feel a thing — ever.
Opponents of Washington state’s Initiative 1000 to legalize doctor-assisted suicide warn it would induce insurance companies to push patients to take death-dealing drugs.
That’s exactly what happened to one woman in neighboring Oregon, the only state where assisted suicide is legal.
Barbara Wagner, 64, recently learned that her lung cancer was no longer in remission. But when she asked... READ MORE
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Assisted Suicide: What Now?
Monday, November 10, 2008 11:14 AM
One of the saddest outcomes of last Tuesday’s election was the passage of Washington state’s Initiative 1000.
Now that Washington has become the second American state to legalize assisted suicide, terminally ill patients there will experience the same pressures as in neighboring Oregon to end their lives prematurely.
What does this new high-water mark for the culture of death portend for... READ MORE
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Judge Okays Assisted Suicide
Thursday, December 11, 2008 9:30 AM
Disabled person protests against assisted suicide. (CNS/Reuters)
Call it the triangle of death.
Montana has joined neighboring Oregon and Washington to become, at least temporarily, the third American state to allow doctor-assisted suicide.
A state judge ruled Dec. 6 that “the Montana state constitution’s protections for human dignity and individual privacy permit competent, terminally-ill Montana residents to get medications causing a peaceful... READ MORE
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