Sliding Down the Slippery Slope
Monday, October 20, 2008 10:30 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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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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