Sound Principles for Health-Care Reform
Posted by Tom McFeely
Monday, September 21, 2009 2:39 PM
President Obama at a Sept. 17 health-care rally. (Reuters)
In this article, EWTN’s director of communications, Michelle Laque Johnson, offers two simple and easy-to-follow principles that, if followed, could easily assuage pro-life concerns about President Barack Obama’s health-care reform initiative.
Here they are:
Principle No. 1: Legislation must be written clearly so that there is absolutely no ambiguity about what Congress intends.
Principle... READ MORE
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Britain’s Government-Funded ‘Death Panels’
Posted by Tom McFeely
Thursday, September 03, 2009 2:00 PM
Critics have charged that Sarah Palin and others were wildly over the top, in warning that President Barack Obama’s health-care reform initiative could open the door to federally funded “death panels” that would order the euthanizing of seriously ill patients.
Given what’s going on right now under Britain’s socialized National Health Service, the claims of Palin et al might not have... READ MORE
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L’Osservatore on Eluana
Posted by Tom McFeely
Tuesday, February 10, 2009 11:45 AM
Remembering Eluana. (CNS/Reuters)
The Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano has released an editorial about the death of Eluana Englaro.
Eluana died yesterday after being deprived of the feeding tube the comatose woman required in order to receive food and water.
Her death has sparked an outcry in Italy and around the world against this so-called act of “euthanasia” of a patient who is in a long-term coma.
Here is the text... READ MORE
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Eluano Englaro Dies
Posted by Tom McFeely
Monday, February 09, 2009 4:12 PM
(CNS/Reuters)
Eluana Englaro has died, three days after she began to be deprived of nourishment.
Last week, the comatose 37-year-old Italian woman was taken by her father Beppino from a hospital in Lecco, Italy, where Eluana was receiving care from Sisters of Mercy. She had been in a coma since 1992 as a result of injuries she sustained in a car accident.
Her father acted without legal authorization, in... READ MORE
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Italy’s Terry Schiavo
Posted by Tom McFeely
Thursday, February 05, 2009 9:41 AM
There has been another tragic turn in the case of Eluana Englaro.
The young Italian woman, who is in a coma and requires food and water to be given to her by a feeding tube, has been taken from a hospital in Lecco, Italy, by her father without legal authorization.
According to this report by Catholic News Agency, Eluana’s father has in effect kidnapped her and placed her in a different hospital... READ MORE
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Assisted Suicide: What Now?
Posted by Tom McFeely
Monday, November 10, 2008 10:14 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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Sliding Down the Slippery Slope
Posted by Tom McFeely
Monday, October 20, 2008 9:30 PM
This video features Martin Sheen warning against passage of Washington State’s Initiative 1000 to legalize doctor-assisted suicide.
Over at the First Things blog, Amanda Shaw writes about “some chilling news” about Initiative 1000 that she learned about last week at the Human Life Review’s Great Defender of Life Dinner.
Anti-euthanasia advocates Wesley Smith and Rita Marker warned the... READ MORE
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