EDMONTON – At what point does a health care provider become complicit in the act of medically-assisted death?
Euthanasia snub led to Canadian withdrawal from the World Medical Association, doctor says
Canada’s sudden withdrawal from the World Medical Association is likely due to a Canadian delegation feeling wounded and angry after their proposal to alter the world body’s code of ethics on euthanasia was resoundingly rejected, according to a Canadian doctor.
Canada falls short in palliative care access
A grim picture of Canadians dying amid the noise and bustle of hospital acute care wards, unable to access quality palliative care, emerges from the first-ever comprehensive, national assessment of palliative care by the Canadian Institute for Health Information.
CORNWALL – Canada’s Catholic bishops aim to have palliative care resources available in every parish to help Catholics grapple with suffering and dying under a regime of legal euthanasia.
Jim Hughes isn’t quitting the fight, but is stepping down as president of Campaign Life
The year was 1978. Jim Hughes had known his ups and downs in the business world. He’d experienced some failures but Hughes had worked through them and could finally consider himself a successful businessman. He was 35.
New federal government rules to monitor euthanasia and assisted suicide are opaque and weak at a time when legally induced deaths are rising at alarming levels, warn several organizations.
Coalition marks 20 years in euthanasia fight
Euthanasia isn’t palliative care, Canadian bishops say
OTTAWA – Canada’s Catholic bishops are urging the federal government to maintain a clear distinction between palliative care and the practice of euthanasia and assisted suicide so institutions are not forced to become “an accomplice” in causing an intentional death.
Can a doctor-assisted death be ‘natural’ and ‘suicide’?
Whenever a doctor assists in a suicide in Ontario by injecting a patient with chemicals to stop the heart, it is recorded on the death certificate as a natural death.
Euthanasia film strikes a raw human nerve
OTTAWA – Kevin Dunn first met Aurelia in the Netherlands at a conference on euthanasia for young people.
OTTAWA – The recipient of the 2018 Archbishop Exner award says she “drifted” into family medicine but now she sees God’s providence in her work against euthanasia.
Robert Brehl: State-approved suicide is way too easy
June 17 will mark two years since Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) law received royal assent.
The pipette appears on the screen and sucks up a dot, which is actually human sperm that has been genetically altered. Then the small laboratory tool pierces the membrane of a human egg, releases the sperm, “and you have changed the genetic destiny of that embryo,” notes television host Bill Whitaker. “Yes, we believe so,” nods scientist Shoukhrat Mitalipov.