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Assisted Suicide Archives


July 19, 2007

Say "No" to Kevorkian and the University of Florida

After his release from prison on June 1 for "good behavior," Jack Kevorkian, a.k.a. Dr. Death, resumed his promotion of assisted suicide as a humane conclusion for the terminally ill. He told Larry King that he felt it was important...

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July 13, 2007

Kevorkian Petition Challenges the University of Florida

After his release from prison on June 1 for "good behavior," Jack Kevorkian, a.k.a. Dr. Death, resumed his promotion of assisted suicide as a humane conclusion for the terminally ill. He told Larry King that he felt it was important...

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June 12, 2007

Doctors are not licensed as killers ...

.... according to Wesley Smith who comments on Ramesh Kumar Sharma, a former doctor who was disciplined for attempting to help a patient commit suicide. Although he was not jailed, has been stripped of his license to practice medicine and...

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May 11, 2007

The Kevorkian Release

Why does the drive-by media continue to give radical assisted suicide proponents a platform?It's almost like returning to the scene of the crime. Two days after his scheduled release from prison on June 1, Jack "Dr. Death" Kevorkian, one of...

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March 29, 2007

America's vision of inclusion

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with inherent and inalienable rights; that among these, are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; ...." --Declaration of Independence...

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March 27, 2007

Suicide Bill Should Be Labeled 'Covert Abuses Act'

The 16,000-member Christian Medical Association today voiced strong opposition to a bill (AB 374), reviewed Tuesday by the Assembly Judiciary Committee, that would legalize assisted suicide in California. The national organization of physicians added its voice to the American Medical...

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Reject Wisconsin "Death with Dignity" Bill

Brookfield, WI - Pro-Life Wisconsin strongly opposes legislation being circulated for co-sponsorship by Senator Fred Risser (D-Madison) and Representative Frank Bo yle (D-Superior) that would permit physician-assisted suicide (PAS) in Wisconsin . "In a stark denial of reality, the bill...

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March 22, 2007

Vermont House Rejects Assisted Suicide

MONTPELIER, Vermont, March 22, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Vermont House of Representatives voted against a proposal yesterday that would have made the state the second in the country to permit physician-assisted suicide, following Oregon. House members voted 82-63 against the...

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December 19, 2006

A Well Intentioned Murder?

Jesse D. Cayton Jr discovered that "mercy killing" is still killing and there is no such thing as a well intentioned murder:A jury took less than an hour Thursday in convicting a West Augusta man of premeditated first-degree murder for...

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September 14, 2006

Bioethics? Whose Might We Refer To?

Worldnetdaily.com reports that Peter Springer, an "internationally known Princeton "bioethicist" and animal-rights activist says he'd kill disabled babies if it were in the "best interests" of the family, because he sees no distinction in the child's life whether it is born or not, and the world already allows abortion".

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July 25, 2006

The "embryos" only have us - Now is time for action

Isn't that immoral? On the contrary, they say it is more moral do it and compare women who kill their children to heros:

In such circumstances, selective pregnancy reduction could be regarded as a moral decision aimed at optimizing the quality of life after birth. Furthermore, given the heart-rendering nature of the decision, selective pregnancy reduction might even be considered laudable.

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June 29, 2006

Assisted Suicide Bill Rejected

A California state Senate committee has rejected a measure that would make the state the second, following Oregon, to legalize assisted suicide. - LifeNews....

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June 20, 2006

Assisted Suicide and Language Perversion

Advocates for assisted suicide know that when their agenda is described accurately and descriptively--they lose. So, they are ever about the task of trying to come up with new gooey euphemisms to describe assisted suicide--to be, if you will, the...

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June 7, 2006

The Prisoner has a Right to Starve?

A prisoner attempts to commit suicide. Is it right to stop them? What if their chosen method is a hunger strike? Here's the problem: the U.S. military has been force feeding detainees who go on hunger strikes before they become...

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May 26, 2006

Kevorkian has Regrets

As he watches his life fade, the imprisoned Dr. Death isn't sorry he killed his patients - he regrets getting caught:"He did what he did, and it brought it to public awareness [of physician-assisted suicide]," said Kevorkian's attorney, Mayer Morganroth....

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Dutch Euthanasia Leads to Permitted Infanticide

Testifying before yesterday's Senate Judiciary Subcommittee titled "The Consequences of Legalized Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia", Wesley J. Smith had this to say about infanticide: In the Netherlands, infants are killed because they have birth defects, and doctors justify the practice....

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April 27, 2006

A Right To Die, But No Right To Life?

Weekly Standard | "We never say no." by Wesley J. Smith Meanwhile, in the real world, the founder of the Swiss suicide facilitating organization Dignitas is just about done with pretense. The Sunday Times Magazine (London) reported that Dignitas' founder,...

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March 18, 2006

Terri - Murdered by those who love communism

At least President Clinton had the balls to send in the troops when he thought he was doing the right thing.

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December 6, 2005

A Movie About Dr. Death

"You Don't Know Jack" is the tentative name of an upcoming movie that will feature the life story of Jack "Dr. Death" Kevorkian based on an unpublished book written by Kevorkian's friends. Jack Kevorkian is a convicted murderer who assisted...

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October 5, 2005

The Right to Kill

Jay at StoptheACLU weighs in on the assisted suicide case presently before the Supreme Court:Euthanasia and assisted suicide are not about giving rights to the person who dies but, instead, they are about changing public policy so that doctors or...

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Oral Arguments of Gonzales v. Oregon

The United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments this morning in Gonzales v. Oregon, a case which tests whether the federal government can be forced to facilitate assisted suicide through the use of federally controlled drugs whenever a state no...

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US Supreme Court Considers Assisted Suicide

LifeSiteNews.com - The US Supreme Court will begin hearing oral arguments in its first assisted suicide case since 1997. The case, Gonzales v. Oregon, is the federal government’s challenge to Oregon’s assisted suicide law. It is also the first case...

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October 4, 2005

Kevorkian: No Remorse

From LifeSite I've commented before on the media's infatuation with Jack Kevorkian. In this recent interview, it's clear that despite his claims that he wouldn't kill again, he has lost none of his enthusiasm for euthanasia: Euthanasia campaigner Dr. Jack...

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