Assisted Suicide
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Written on 29 Jun, 1995 at 9:36 in
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Interim Staff In what well may be summed up as a typically Canadian compromise, the Senate Committee on euthanasia has managed to issue a report which pleases neither pro-life and disability-advocate groups, nor the pro-radicals.
The Special Senate Committee on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide was sharply split, narrowly voting to recommend that both voluntary euthanasia and assisted suicide remain illegal in Canada. It was unanimous, however, in its view that those convicted of mercy killing crimes should receive lighter sentences. It also agreed ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 May, 1995 at 9:36 in
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Interim Staff No jail time for doctor convicted of murdering disabled child
A Dutch doctor who ended the life of a handicapped child has been found guilty of murder.
Incredibly, not only did the judge free him without sentence but even went so far as commending the doctor for his “integrity and courage.”
This case was supposed to be a test of the controversial Dutch mercy killing law which allows doctors to end the life of a terminally ill patient if the patient ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 May, 1995 at 9:26 in
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Interim Staff Japan has come up with a series of guidelines regulating euthanasia which does nothing but further confuse an already confusing issue. The International Right to Life’s Weekly Review reports that in late March, the Yokohama District Court determined that euthanasia would be legally permissible “where a patient suffers unbearable physical pain, all measures to eliminate pain have been exhausted, death is inevitable and imminent, and the patient has given clear consent to end his life.” If a patient cannot communicate ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Apr, 1995 at 9:40 in
Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, Politics | Author:
Patrick Ryan A law which would allow Oregon doctors to administer lethal doses to end the lives of terminally ill patients remains on hold.
Last November, this law, which would have been the first of its kind in North America, was narrowly approved by Oregon voters.
However concerned citizens, including National Right to Life, have challenged the law as unconstitutional, claiming that that it discriminates against the terminally ill. U.S. District judge Michael Hogan granted this group an injection ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Mar, 1995 at 10:45 in
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Doreen Beagan A second case of assisted suicide is before the Nova Scotia courts. It occurred in May 1994, a year after the Myers death, and has reached the preliminary inquiry stage.
Thirty-five-year-old Brenda Ethel Barnes, a non-diabetic, died in hospital three days after receiving a dose of insulin. Nurse Mary Jane Fogarty, 38, who calls herself Barnes’ best friend, is charged with providing the syringes and insulin, and writing the suicide note.
Barnes, one of 11 children, was a hard worker ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Mar, 1995 at 9:58 in
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Patricia Cashen Groups stage rally to voice anger and fear over appeal of Saskatchewan man who killed his daughter
On February 22, The Friends of Tracy Latimer called a press conference to tell the country that they were not happy with the ground-swell of sympathy that many Canadians were showing to Robert Latimer who last October ended the life of Tracy, his 12-year-old disabled daughter.
A jury found Latimer guilty of second-degree murder and handed out a mandatory life sentence without a chance of ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Feb, 1995 at 18:00 in
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Doreen Beagan In the region’s first mercy killing case, Nova Scotia Supreme Court Judge Felix Cacchione ruled that Cheryl May Myers, 30, and her common-law husband Michael William Power, 35, “acted out of compassion, mercy and love.”
They used a pillow to suffocate the woman’s father, 69-year-old Layton Elmer Myers, and received suspended sentences, three years’ probation and 150 hours of community service.
Their major defence was that they were acting in accordance with the expressed wishes of Mr. Myers who, when diagnosed with ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Feb, 1995 at 11:42 in
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Interim Staff Less-than-truthful euthanasia echoes tactics used in Roe v. Wade.
When abortion activists campaigned successfully to legalize abortion in the United States in 1973, their figurehead, Jane Roe, lied about the facts of her pregnancy to the Supreme Court, claiming to be a rape victim.
In 1994, a publicity campaign to persuade Oregon voters to approve a euthanasia law also used a “hard” case to sway public opinion. An investigation by the International Anti-Euthanasia Task Force (AETF) has discovered that the ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Jan, 1995 at 12:01 in
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Mike Mastromatteo A suspended sentence for a Nova Scotia woman convicted of aiding and abetting her friend’s suicide sends an ominous message across the country says the president of the province’s Campaign Life organization.
Herm Wills of Campaign Life Nova Scotia said a suspended sentence on an assisted suicide conviction puts out word that “mercy killing” practitioners can now set up shop in the province.
In October, Mary Jane Fogarty, 39, of Halifax was convicted of aiding the suicide of her friend Brenda Barnes, ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Jan, 1995 at 10:33 in
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Fr. Ted Colleton “Life is a precious gift. It belongs to the person to whom it was given. . . Tray’s life was hers to make of it what she could. My life is going to be astounding.”
I think that everybody in Canada, who watches or reads the news, is aware of the stories of the deaths of two young Canadians. Tracy Latimer, of Saskatoon, aged 12, was killed by her father and Ryan Wilkieson, aged 16, was killed by his mother who ... (Continue reading)
Written on 16 Sep, 1994 at 13:02 in
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Peter Muggeridge, The Interim The Canadian Medical Association has come out strongly against allowing its doctors to practice euthanasia or physician assisted death.
In a move which stunned observers at the annual convention, the CMA passed a strong resolution stating that “The Canadian Medical Association declares its members should specifically exclude the practice of euthanasia and physician assisted suicide.”
Calling the practice “horrifying,” Dr. Daniel MacCarthy of Vancouver proposed the resolution which was supported by 93-74 count. Eighteen delegates abstained.
Dr. Ted Boadway, policy director of the ... (Continue reading)
Written on 16 Jun, 1994 at 11:40 in
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Sabina Mcluhan I’ve spent a lot of time lately thinking about suicide. (Not for personal reasons—even though by the time you read this I will have moved house with one husband, two teenagers, two dogs, one cat, one canary and three million books.) I have been trying to understand why it is that after centuries of looking at suicide as a shocking event to be discouraged if possible, people are becoming persuaded that it is now a right, and that if you’re ... (Continue reading)
Written on 16 Dec, 1993 at 9:03 in
Assisted Suicide | Author:
Sabina McLuhan
The Interim In B.C., decisions will be made on a case by case basis
Sue Rodriguez last her fight for a legally assisted suicide at the Supreme Court of Canada, but she may have, in effect, won the right to have someone help her kill herself. The B.C. Attorney General will most likely not prosecute any individual who helps her, according to pro-euthanasia activists.
The guidelines, issued by Attorney General Colin Gabelmann on November 4, state that cases involving euthanasia or assisted suicide ... (Continue reading)
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