Euthanasia
Written on 21 Feb, 1993 at 14:21 in
Euthanasia, Society & Culture | Author:
Gloria Lawrenson Once before I tackled the complex issue euthanasia. It was pragmatic approach to the subject during my first year of nursing school. Unfortunately, it was pro-euthanasia. Back then, I saw the universe through a keyhole. Of course, at the time it was a telescope. Writing the assignment, I experienced no emotion, only a commitment to substantiate my thesis that euthanasia was the medically and philosophically correct thing to do. There was no politically correct back then.
Today I see things very ... (Continue reading)
Written on 21 Feb, 1993 at 14:05 in
Euthanasia, Religion, Society & Culture | Author:
Arch. M. Gervais During the last two years, there have been increased efforts in Canada and United States to gain acceptance of assisted suicide or euthanasia’ for the terminally ill who re-quest it. These developments have far reaching ethical implications for human life, dignity and solidarity. It is a cruel irony that “death with dignity,” a respect for life phrase, has been taken over to justify killing.
We can all sympathize with the suffering of a dying patient or one who has been told ... (Continue reading)
Written on 21 Jan, 1993 at 13:30 in
Euthanasia, Society & Culture | Author:
Sabina McLuhan “Right to die” advocate ready to defy law and assist in Sue Rodriguez’s suicide
As I write this, the Sue Rodriguez case has not yet been heard by the B.C. Supreme Court. By the time you read this, the case will not only have been heard but a judgment may already have been announced, and Sue might even be dead.
At the moment, her lawyers are feeding the media with plausible-sounding statements, hoping to make the public believe that Sue Rodriguez is ... (Continue reading)
Written on 12 Jan, 1993 at 8:31 in
Euthanasia, Politics, Population, Society & Culture | Author:
Interim Staff
A pro-euthanasia group is using an emotionally-charged video of a terminally-ill woman to manipulate the public and Members of Parliament into changing the Criminal Code to allow euthanasia into Canada.
The meetings of the Sub-Committee of the Standing Committee on Justice and the Solicitor General on the Recodification of the General Part of the Criminal Code do not usually receive much media attention. But on November 24, the cameras and reporters were huddled in ... (Continue reading)
Voluntary Death
January 6 – Montreal – Mr. Justice Jacques Dufour rules in favour of terminally ill, 25 year old Nancy B’s request to have her life support system disconnected. Nancy suffers from Guillan – Barré Syndrome, a crippling sickness for which there is no cure. She appealed to the courts after doctors were hesitant to act on her behalf.
The ruling permitted Nancy’s doctor, Daniele Marceau, to withdraw life support after the expiration of a 30–day appeal period. The decision created ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Dec, 1992 at 14:39 in
Abortion, Euthanasia, Marriage and Family, Politics, Pro-Life, Society & Culture | Author:
The Interim Staff The following are the result of the November 3, 1992 U.S. ballot initiatives on abortion, euthanasia and homosexuality rights. (Source: Nov. 7, 1992, Globe and Mail)
Abortion
Maryland – Initiative 6: to ease restriction on abortion: Yes 62%; No 38%
Arizona – Initiative 110: To eliminate public financing of abortion, except when woman’s life is threatened. Yes 31%; No 69%
Euthanasia
California – Initiative 161: To allow doctors to assist in death requested by terminally ill patients. Yes 46% No 54%
Homosexual Rights
Colorado – Initiative 2: ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Dec, 1992 at 14:31 in
Abortion, Euthanasia, Pro-Life, Religion, Society & Culture, Youth Activism | Author:
Doreen Beagan Charlottetown – Five hundred youths from all across Canada gathered here in mid-October for the national conference of the Canadian Pro-Life Youth Organization (CYPLO). They described the experience as awesome.
MLA Leone Bagnall, House Leader of the provincial Opposition, showed her support by making time to drop in. However, the local media didn’t find the province’s first national youth conference important enough to cover. It was the weekend, after all. Air Farce was in town, abortion rights promoter Doris Anderson was ... (Continue reading)
September 16 – Ottawa – By a vote of 99-62, the House of Commons passes legislation ending baby bonuses and bringing in a new child benefit system aimed at helping the working poor. The baby bonus was established by Mackenzie King in 1945, to ensure that children would have their basic needs met. The monthly payments were made directly to the mothers, not to their husbands.
In the Senate, the Liberal opposition had 31 expert witnesses prepared to criticize it, but ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Nov, 1992 at 13:47 in
Euthanasia, Pro-Life, Society & Culture | Author:
Peter Muggeridge According to a recent study, a large majority of doctors and other health workers who care for the terminally ill oppose all active forms of euthanasia. In a timely survey, The Human Life Research Institute (H.L.R.I.) determined that 74 per cent of those health care professionals who responded to their questionnaire felt that any direct action undertaken to terminate a patient’s life was unethical.
This study confirmed what many had long suspected – that those who work closest to the terminally ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Nov, 1992 at 13:06 in
Abortion, Bioethics, Euthanasia, Pro-Life, Society & Culture | Author:
Winifride Prestwich Roe v. Wade is often compared with the Dred Scott case. Who or what was Dred Scott? M.M., St. John’s.
Dred Scott was a slave. He was taken by his owner to Illinois, a ‘free’ state where slavery was not allowed, and then to the federal territory, part of the Louisiana Purchase where slavery was prohibited under the Missouri Compromise of 1820. When Scott was taken back to the ‘slave’ state of Missouri, he sued for his freedom, claiming that he ... (Continue reading)
The most important state ballot measures this November 3 will appear in five states:
Arizona. Proposition 110 is an abortion initiative introduced by the Arizona Family Research Council. Put forward as “the common sense” abortion measure, this amendment to the state constitution would prohibit abortion except where the mother’s life is endangered or in cases of reported rape or incest.
Maryland. Question 6 is an abortion initiative introduced by the Vote KNOW Coalition. Question 6 would roll back Maryland’s radical new abortion ... (Continue reading)
Written on 27 Oct, 1992 at 5:49 in
Euthanasia, Pro-Life, Society & Culture | Author:
David Dooley At a well-attended dinner meeting of the Human Life Research Institute, held at Massey College in Toronto on September 12, Dr. John Scott spoke on a most timely topic – palliative care. He is associated with the Elizabeth Bruyere Health Centre in Ottawa, and after eighteen years at bedsides of people approaching death, he has a great deal of insight into their state of mind.
The Canadian public is not sure what to think about euthanasia, he said. It has been ... (Continue reading)
Written on 24 Sep, 1992 at 14:59 in
Euthanasia | Author:
Kurt Gayle In March 1992, in a Florida hospital, Theresa Ann Campo Pearson was born with anencephalia, a rare condition in which most of the upper skull and brain cortex are missing, but in which the partially developed brain stem can still produce breathing and a heartbeat.
The parents – anticipating baby Theresa’s death in a matter of days – asked a Florida court to authorize doctors to speed up the inevitable and to take Theresa’s healthy organs for transplantation (thus killing her) ... (Continue reading)
Written on 24 Sep, 1992 at 12:34 in
Abortion, Euthanasia | Author:
Winifride Prestiwch We have many non-Christians in Canada. What is the position of Islam on abortion
and euthanasia? L.M. North York.
Doctors at the 1981 International Conference on Islamic Medicine, held in Kuwait, issued
the document. It answers your question.
The Doctor’s Oath
I swear by God…The Almighty
To regard God in carrying out my profession.
To protect human life in all its stages and under all circumstances, doing my utmost
to rescue it from death, malady, pain and anxiety. (emphasis added)
To keep people’s dignity, cover their privacy and lock ... (Continue reading)
Way to go, Peterborough!
Peterborough – Civic Hospital’s Board of Governors is having a hard time getting pro-lifers off their backs. Since the news that Toronto abortionist Nikki Colodny was being “united” to Peterborough to help kill preborn Peterborough babies, the pro-lie contingent has been galvanized into action. Very successful action!
Following peaceful and prayerful visits to the houses of the three local abortionists, two have decided they do not want to perform abortions. The remaining one, Jack Sheppard, is rumored to ... (Continue reading)
