Judging human worth
The failure to grasp the implications of intrinsic human worth plagues arguments for physician-assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia.
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Articles tagged Assisted Suicide
Paralysed man ‘wins’ court battle to end life by having respirator removed
Euthanasia campaigners are jubilant today as a landmark high court ruling will allow a man with motor neuron disease to commit suicide.
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Dr. Phil show sympathetically highlights mom who wants to have her disabled adult children killed
Annette Corriveau feels that the moral thing to do would be to kill her two adult children by lethal injection, to end their “suffering.”
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Spain’s main conservative and socialist parties join in rejecting euthanasia bill
A proposal to legalize euthanasia was roundly rejected by Spain's two biggest parties, which are normally at loggerheads over human life and family issues.
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UK Parliament ‘welcomes’ guidelines effectively decriminalizing assisted suicide
Paul Tully, the general secretary of SPUC Pro-Life, said that the motion “undermines society’s protection of the most vulnerable.”
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Quebec assembly committee calls for assisted suicide
"This is just another step on that road to perdition,” said Georges Buscemi of Quebec Life Coalition.
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French socialist presidential candidate retreats under fire from pro-euthanasia position
Jean Leonetti, the author of France's current end-of-life law, blasted Francois Hollande's "vague" new language on the subject.
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Canadian suicide prevention bill passes by overwhelming majority
The bill’s passage comes at the same time as a British Columbia judge weighs a case seeking to legalize assisted suicide.
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Canadian pro-life group launches national TV ads warning against euthanasia legalization
The media campaign comes as Justice Lynn Smith of the B.C. Supreme Court considers the Carter/Taylor case, an attempt by the B.C. Civil Liberties Association to overturn Canada’s ban on euthanasia and assisted suicide.
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‘Biased,’ ‘seriously flawed’: Pro-life groups slam UK report calling for assisted suicide
The commission was chaired by Lord Charles Falconer, an ardent assisted suicide advocate, and was composed almost exclusively of well-known euthanasia and assisted suicide advocates.
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