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By Mathew Wagner, Education Director, Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation. This post is definitely the most personal…and probably the most painful…I will write. One of the reasons I am so ardently pro-life is because of my experience with our second child. Early in the...
Editor’s note. This article was published by Senator Unger on February 22 on her website. "Palliative care should be the priority, not physician-assisted dying. There is something terribly wrong when a government does more to guarantee that the living can die, than to...
Editor’s note. This appeared at Maryland Against Assisted Suicide. As we see the state of California press forward with the ill-advised policy of legal assisted suicide, we also hear about more and more medical professionals who wish that the medical community would...
By Wesley J. Smith Well, this is shameful. Palliative care isn’t the same thing at all as assisting suicide. Yet, the Journal of Palliative Care has an article by assisted suicide promoters on the “clinical criteria” for a doctor prescribing poison to a patient. Talk...
By Wesley J. Smith When a palliative care center in Quebec announced it would not offer euthanasia, the Minister of Health ominously told it, “Yes you will!” And so it has come to pass. The Center will now be one of the first to kill patients under Quebec’s euthanasia...
By Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director - Euthanasia Prevention Coalition. In a debate format interview on the PBS Newhour, Ira Byock, a leading palliative care physician, author, and public advocate for improving care for the end of life debated Barbara Coombs...
By Paul Russell, Founder, HOPE Australia A group of West Australian Palliative Care Specialists has told a Senate Inquiry into euthanasia that they do not want to be put in the position of having to end patients' lives. The West Australian newspaper says that,...
By Wesley J. Smith The greatest palliative care physicians of our era are (or were) against assisted suicide. Dame Cicely Saunders–one of the great medical humanitarians in history for creating the modern hospice movement–told me that she saw assisted suicide...
By Dr. Peter Saunders Editor’s note. Dr. Saunders is a former general surgeon and is CEO of Christian Medical Fellowship, a UK-based organization with 4,500 UK doctors and 1,000 medical students as members. As 2012 draws to a close, we look back over a busy twelve...
By Dr. Peter Saunders Editor’s note. Dr. Saunders is a former general surgeon and CEO of Christian Medical Fellowship, a UK-based organization with 4,500 UK doctors and 1,000 medical students as members. This appeared on his blog at...