The “death with dignity” and bioethics crowds grow increasingly extreme. Now, they are pushing starvation. First, it was removing feeding tubes from the cognitively disabled, slow killing excused as removing medical treatment....
Read MoreOregon explicitly rations health care to its Medicaid recipients. This means that some patients with terminal conditions have been denied life-extending treatments because the state proclaimed that their lives were not worth the...
Read MoreIt appears that Oregon has run dry on death drugs. You see death penalty opponents have made the supply of a prime death-causing drug used in assisted suicide scarce. Of course, the media misses the irony. From the Willamette...
Read MoreEmotional whipsawing is the lifeblood of euthanasia advocacy (pardon the pun). The movement thrives on often truly heart-wrenching stories to convince society to grant a general license allowing doctors or family members to help...
Read MoreSo Apple is putting a suicide prevention function into Siri, the “personal assistant” installed in the iPhone. From the ABC story: Apple’s snarky assistant has been updated with a helpful, serious feature. Siri...
Read MoreBy Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC I did an hour radio interview on the Regina Brett Show, WKSU in Ohio, about so-called death with dignity. A representative of the assisted suicide advocacy group Final Exit...
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