Bioethicist Wesley Smith posted the article in italics below on the website of the Center for Bioethics and Culture Network (http://www.cbc-network.org/2013/01/bioethicist-lets-find-a-way-to-kill-alzheimers-patients/). It is a critique of an article in the Hastings Center Report that advocates euthanasia for people with Alzheimer's. We know that a woman with … [Read more...] about Bioethicist: Let’s Find a Way to Kill Alzheimer’s Patients!
Oregon Lawyer’s Letter to the Editor about Why Assisted Suicide Laws Are an Invitation to Murder
We have written before about how proponents of assisted suicide claim many people who obtain the lethal prescriptions there never use them. They even assert that some people live longer once they know they have the means to end their lives if they find them unbearable. If there assertions are true, it is shocking that we will never know how many patients who did die under the … [Read more...] about Oregon Lawyer’s Letter to the Editor about Why Assisted Suicide Laws Are an Invitation to Murder
More on Blindness and Deafness as Reasons Not to Live
Steven Drake of the disability rights group Not Dead Yet has written two great articles reacting to the news of 45 year old deaf twins who were “voluntarily” euthananized in Belgium because they were going blind. The men were not terminally ill, yet they met the Belgian legal criteria for euthanasia because of the "grave and incurable suffering" they experienced from knowing … [Read more...] about More on Blindness and Deafness as Reasons Not to Live
Urgent! Legislative Alert!
This is an urgent alert to all Vermonters. Please contact your senators immediately to express your opposition to legalizing assisted suicide and to ask them to work and vote against it. You can find contact information on the Vermont Legislature’s website. For an alphabetical listing, go to http://www.leg.state.vt.us/SenateMain.cfm . If you aren’t sure who your senator … [Read more...] about Urgent! Legislative Alert!
Let’s put this pet theory to sleep: We have suffered long enough the euthanasia lobby’s myth that society is kinder to animals than to humans.
Long ago, True Dignity published a similar article to this one, also be disability rights activist Stephen Drake of Not Dead Yet. Doesn't everyone know that the real reason human beings put animals down is often that they have become inconvenient? Thanks again,Stephen. http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/lets_put_this_pet_theory_to_sleep Stephen Drake and … [Read more...] about Let’s put this pet theory to sleep: We have suffered long enough the euthanasia lobby’s myth that society is kinder to animals than to humans.