Euthanasia

• UK Parliament ‘welcomes’ guidelines effectively decriminalizing assisted suicide
• Parisian pro-lifers don clown garb and unite in massive ‘flashmob’ against euthanasia
• Quebec assembly committee calls for assisted suicide
• French socialist presidential candidate retreats under fire from pro-euthanasia position
• Simply abandon the ‘norm against killing’ to solve organ transplant problem: leading US bioethicists
• Euthanasia In Europe: from horror to hope
• First private, door-to-door euthanasia service opens in Netherlands
• Nazi extermination of thousands of disabled children featured in new Berlin museum exhibit
• Abortion, marijuana supported by Liberal Party delegates
• Canadian pro-life group launches national TV ads warning against euthanasia legalization
• Culture of life is winning, says Canadian Primate
• ‘Biased,’ ‘seriously flawed’: Pro-life groups slam UK report calling for assisted suicide
• Portable brainwave reading machine set to tackle inaccurate ‘vegetative state’ diagnoses
• Grim reaper on wheels: Dutch right-to-die group wants ‘mobile euthanasia teams’
• Campaign Life Coalition to Canadians: act now to stop euthanasia before it’s too late
• Washington State lawyer suggests expanding euthanasia/assisted suicide to those not terminally ill
• As court considers euthanasia, 55 Canadian MPs call for ‘quality end-of-life care’
• Public submissions to Quebec committee overwhelmingly reject euthanasia, assisted suicide
• Royal Society of Canada report urging legalization of euthanasia a ‘sham’: anti-euthanasia leader
• Court case seeking to overturn Canadian laws against euthanasia begins today
• Woman with Alzheimer’s euthanized in Netherlands
• Slippery slope: ‘loneliness,’ ‘fatigue’ now criteria for euthanasia in Netherlands
• Anti-euthanasia group wins right to intervene in crucial Canadian case
• UK judge rules against dehydrating brain-damaged woman to death
• UN toys with euthanasia, considers new treaty on aging
• Only 1 in 10 doctors would commit euthanasia if bill passes in Portugal: ethicist
• Boston cardinal condemns effort to legalize euthanasia in Massachusetts
• Massachusetts OKs assisted suicide vote for 2012 ballot
• Doctors should refer patients for euthanasia, even if they oppose it: new Dutch guidelines
• Forgiving the Boomers for destroying the world
• Kelowna mayor issues 4th consecutive Pro-Life Week proclamation
• Withdrawing feeding tube from comatose woman is ‘euthanasia’: Spanish bishop
• Quebec lawyer seeks right to euthanasia for woman with Lou Gehrig’s disease
• Dutch Priest stands ground after denying funeral to man who chose euthanasia
• How I helped my mother starve to death: retired New York Times reporter pens book
• One of two lawsuits challenging Canadian assisted suicide law dismissed
• Bishop Morlino: gauging ‘quality of life’ an excuse to ‘pull up the hearse’
• Poll of Dutch doctors shows broad acceptance of euthanasia
• New ‘Dr. Death’ admits to assisting the deaths of 300 in U.S.
• Bill to outlaw dehydration euthanasia passed by Italy’s lower house
• Italian lower house votes to ban euthanasia
• Italian man goes to prison for euthanizing his 91-year-old mother
• Ontario Appeals Court rules doctors don’t have right to remove life support
• Euthanasia on the rise in Holland: now being applied to patients with dementia
• Spanish bishops warn against ‘death with dignity’ law in leaked statement
• ‘Euthanasia means killing someone’: Sydney Cardinal issues blunt pro-life challenge
• Shock study: Organs harvested from euthanized patients make better transplants
• U.S. bishops approve statement condemning physician-assisted in 191-1 vote
• NewsBytes, June 13 - Life Issues
• We must fight to maintain a total ban on assisted suicide and euthanasia