The Culture of Death Loses One — for the Moment
COMMENTARY: Chesterton observed, after the defeat of…the 1913 Mental Deficiency Bill to sterilise those classified as ‘feeble-minded’ or ‘moral defectives’ that ‘the dazed dupes will be back again.’
Results from Tag: 'assisted suicide'
UK Pro-Life Groups Hail ‘Great Victory’ as Assisted-Suicide Legislation Fails
Proposed legislation in England and Wales, which much of the media portrayed as ‘inevitable,’ stalls in House of Lords after ‘extraordinary effort’ to oppose it.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kennedy Calls Assisted-Suicide Laws ‘Abhorrent’
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pledged to help strengthen laws that protect people with disabilities from assisted suicide, saying “we can’t be a moral society” with these laws in place.
‘Safeguards Are Ignored’ Around Assisted Suicide, Per New Database
A recently-compiled database found that at least 14,000 Americans have died by assisted suicide since 1997, but the actual number is likely much higher because not all states provide data.
Virginia Catholic Bishops Thank State Lawmakers for Rejecting Assisted Suicide Bills
Legislative committees in both chambers of the Virginia Legislature chose not to advance bills to legalize physician assisted suicide. Both Catholic bishops in the commonwealth praised the decision.
Patient Advocate on Passage of New York Assisted-Suicide Bill: ‘Reexamine Your Consciences’
The Catholic bishops had urged Hochul not to pass the bill, saying that it undermined her own work on anti-suicide programs.
Running Barefoot Into America’s Debate on Life
COMMENTARY: When abstractions become daughters, arguments become conversations — and the Church’s defense of life is heard more clearly.
God Is Merciful — Assisted Suicide Is Not
COMMENTARY: An open letter to New York Governor Kathy Hochul
Ethicists Warn About the Dangers of Linking Assisted Suicide to Organ Donation
Medically assisted suicide is gaining a foothold in the U.S. at a time when the current organ-donation system in the United States is on the defensive in the wake of published reports of abuses.
