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By Michael Cook A book from Cambridge University Press to be released next week takes a critical look at euthanasia in Belgium. “Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: Lessons from Belgium” features essays on legal, philosophical and medical issues, as well as how...
By Nancy Valko I was in disbelief when I read Michael Cook’s article “Belgian Catholic psychiatric hospitals ‘adjust’ their view of euthanasia.” I had to read the translated version on the Brothers of Charity order’s statement itself myself to see if this was “fake...
By Michael Cook One of the last substantial barriers to increasing the number of euthanasia cases for non-terminally-ill psychiatric patients in Belgium seems to have crumbled. A religious order in the Catholic Church, the Brothers of Charity, is responsible for a...
Editor’s note. This comes from SPUC--the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children. The gathering is in response to President Donald Trump's reinstating of the Mexico City Policy, which critics call the "global gag rule." The modest step to prevent US aid money...
This brilliant short documentary explains why euthanasia abandons patients. By Michael Cook Euthanasia is billed as a humane practice. But after watching this brief documentary about Belgium it’s hard to believe that. Euthanasia was legalised there in 2002 and since...
By Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director - Euthanasia Prevention Coalition On October 19, the Washington Post published an article by columnist Charles Lane examining the recent report from Belgium's Federal Commission on the Control and Evaluation of Euthanasia that...
By Not Dead Yet They’re killing psychiatric patients in Belgium and the Netherlands – and most of them are women Two recent papers in medical journals highlight a worrying aspect of euthanasia in Belgium and the Netherlands, according to Wendi Wicks, convenor of Not...
By Wesley J. Smith When euthanasia is sold, we are promised it will be a rare procedure, oh, so carefully administered, with tremendous protections against abuse. Guidelines, schmidelines: In Belgium, people from other countries show up at ERs to be killed. From...
By Michael Cook Several Dutch and Belgian doctors have proposed legal reforms to increase the popularity of combining euthanasia and organ donation in the Netherlands and Belgium. Writing in the Journal of Medical Ethics, they report valuable unpublished information...
By Wesley J. Smith A just published article in the Journal of Medical Ethics argues for allowing killing by organ removal as a form of euthanasia and organ donation. The authors mention that Belgium has “presumed consent” for organ donation. From the piece: When a...