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By Raimundo Rojas, Outreach & Events Director National Right to Life On Thursday, April 30, the Rhode Island House Judiciary Committee will hear H 7760, the “Lila Manfield Sapinsley Compassionate Care Act.” The title sounds merciful. The bill is not. It would...
By Wesley J. Smith Assisted suicide is not discussed much at the federal level. But at a recent Senate committee hearing, Senator James Lankford (R., Okla.) asked HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about his thoughts on assisted suicide. Kennedy was unequivocal...
By Wesley J. Smith Gallup just issued its annual poll on “moral acceptability.” I was struck by the dramatically different results in the two questions about suicide. The first question asked about “doctor assisted suicide.” Close to a majority,...
By Wesley J. Smith There is an old joke What do you call the medical student who finished last in his class? Answer: “Doctor.” The increasing legalization of assisted suicide has accorded that joke a disturbing pertinence. A doctor who prescribes poison need...
By Wesley J. Smith A grieving mother who is in good health has been accepted for termination by a Swiss suicide clinic. From the New York Post story: A physically healthy British woman heartbroken over the death of her only son is heading to Switzerland to end her own...
By Nancy Flanders Professors of child and adolescent psychiatry in the Netherlands are asking colleagues to stop approving euthanasia requests from individuals under age 25 who are suffering from severe mental illness, because their brains are still developing. Key...
By Raimundo Rojas, Outreach & Events Director National Right to Life Wendy Duffy did not need a death clinic. She needed help. She needed a society brave enough to sit with her grief, treat her wounds, and refuse to let despair have the final word. Instead, she...