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June 14, 2020
Euthanasia spinning out of control in Belgium
Euthanasia Prevention Coalition webinar about COVID-19 and assisted suicide in the U.S. and Canada on Thursday, June 18 at 2 pm (EST).
Register for the meeting here
Euthanasia spinning out of control in Belgium: number of reported deaths has tripled, it’s now the answer to everything, doctors pushing it on patients in violation of the law, no longer reporting cases or getting necessary colleague assent, disciplinary proceedings virtually nonexistent, etc.
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2020/06/belgian-professor-of-nursing-challenges.html
Canada asks court for additional time to expand euthanasia law in line with court’s decision, citing pandemic delays
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2020/06/canadian-government-asks-court-to.html
Canadian hospice declares itself “faith-based” and therefore exempt in latest move in tussle with health authorities seeking to force it to provide euthanasia
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2020/06/delta-hospice-continues-to-be-pressured.html
Massachusetts assisted suicide bill gets out of committee
https://www.lifenews.com/2020/06/03/massachusetts-committee-passes-dangerous-bill-legalizing-assisted-suicide/
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2020/06/dr-anne-hansons-testimony-opposing.html
Oklahoma outlaws health care rationing based on odious ‘Quality Adjusted Life Years’ (QALY) system
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2020/05/oklahoma-bans-quality-of-life-health.html
“Bioethicist: Christians Doctors Should be Forced to Kill Babies in Abortions, Euthanize Patients”
https://www.lifenews.com/2020/05/22/bioethicist-christians-doctors-should-be-forced-to-kill-babies-in-abortions-euthanize-patients/
http://www.humanlifematters.org/2020/06/online-assisted-suicide.html
Propaganda Alert - Film about a terminally ill man seeking assisted suicide shows what the euthanaistas are doing: still selling assisted suicide on the basis of helping the terminally ill when the agenda has moved way beyond that (to the mentally ill, ‘completed lives’, etc.). It’s like selling transgenderism on the basis of gay rights and poisonous new-fangled ‘systemic racism’ theory under the banner of civil rights. It’s a very clever game, but a game, nonetheless. #NameTheGame
https://thirdcoastreview.com/2020/06/12/film-review-exit-plan/
Euthanasia spinning out of control in Belgium
Euthanasia Prevention Coalition webinar about COVID-19 and assisted suicide in the U.S. and Canada on Thursday, June 18 at 2 pm (EST).
Register for the meeting here
Euthanasia spinning out of control in Belgium: number of reported deaths has tripled, it’s now the answer to everything, doctors pushing it on patients in violation of the law, no longer reporting cases or getting necessary colleague assent, disciplinary proceedings virtually nonexistent, etc.
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2020/06/belgian-professor-of-nursing-challenges.html
Canada asks court for additional time to expand euthanasia law in line with court’s decision, citing pandemic delays
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2020/06/canadian-government-asks-court-to.html
Canadian hospice declares itself “faith-based” and therefore exempt in latest move in tussle with health authorities seeking to force it to provide euthanasia
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2020/06/delta-hospice-continues-to-be-pressured.html
Massachusetts assisted suicide bill gets out of committee
https://www.lifenews.com/2020/06/03/massachusetts-committee-passes-dangerous-bill-legalizing-assisted-suicide/
- Bill would allow the financially self-interested to prey upon the vulnerable, allow euthanasia, dishonestly list deaths as ‘natural’, etc.
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2020/06/reject-massachusetts-end-of-life-option.html - “The doctors who decide who’s eligible for assisted suicide are the same doctors who have been perfectly comfortable putting older, ill and disabled people at the back of the line for receiving COVID-19 treatments. Why should anyone think they will move us to the front of the line for other life-saving treatments if assisted suicide is legal?” (long article; more here)
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2020/06/media-release-danger-of-massachusetts.html - “There are no drugs effective to do what advocates claim. Several independent studies in both United States and Great Britain examining all drugs and cocktails used for either Euthanasia and/or Capital Punishment have shown that all have significant failure rates ranging from about 24% to just under 75%.” (long article; more here)
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2020/06/stop-massachusetts-assisted-suicide.html
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2020/06/dr-anne-hansons-testimony-opposing.html
Oklahoma outlaws health care rationing based on odious ‘Quality Adjusted Life Years’ (QALY) system
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2020/05/oklahoma-bans-quality-of-life-health.html
“Bioethicist: Christians Doctors Should be Forced to Kill Babies in Abortions, Euthanize Patients”
https://www.lifenews.com/2020/05/22/bioethicist-christians-doctors-should-be-forced-to-kill-babies-in-abortions-euthanize-patients/
- So much for the ‘personal autonomy’ argument euthanistas routinely make. Where is this headed? Here’s where: Let’s force doctors to kill all members of political third parties and anybody else we don’t like. Doctors are agents of the state, not autonomous beings, so they must do our bidding. What’s the difference between forcing doctors to euthanize the mentally ill and those deplorable ‘climate deniers’ who are obviously mentally ill, according to us? No difference at all. Progressives will take us straight back to ‘Might Makes Right’.
http://www.humanlifematters.org/2020/06/online-assisted-suicide.html
Propaganda Alert - Film about a terminally ill man seeking assisted suicide shows what the euthanaistas are doing: still selling assisted suicide on the basis of helping the terminally ill when the agenda has moved way beyond that (to the mentally ill, ‘completed lives’, etc.). It’s like selling transgenderism on the basis of gay rights and poisonous new-fangled ‘systemic racism’ theory under the banner of civil rights. It’s a very clever game, but a game, nonetheless. #NameTheGame
https://thirdcoastreview.com/2020/06/12/film-review-exit-plan/
June 7, 2020
Euthanasia: Lines Being Crossed Left and Right - Where is This Headed?
Several countries allow euthanasia for the otherwise healthy mentally ill; California opened the door a crack in the U.S.; if ‘eliminating suffering’ is the rationale, “restricting assisted suicide to the dying is philosophically unsustainable”
https://www.lifenews.com/2020/05/20/doctors-are-euthanizing-mentally-disabled-patients-around-the-world-united-states-may-be-next/
First, assisted suicide was supposed to be for patients well-known to their doctors. Then it was loosened to specialists who show up in the final weeks. Now, doctors are assisting suicides of patients they’ve never met, through videoconferencing.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/doctors-now-assist-suicides-via-zoom/
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/united-kingdom-court-allows-slow-motion-euthanasia/
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2020/05/queensland-australia-euthanasia-bill-to.html
Survey: “More UK doctors oppose than support assisted suicide” (42%-37%)
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2020/05/medscape-uk-report-more-doctors-oppose.html
Canadian bill to loosen restrictions on euthanasia to be challenged in court - because it doesn’t go far enough, euthanistas say
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2020/05/canadas-euthanasia-bill-c-7-will-be.html
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2020/05/uruguay-bill-would-legalize-euthanasia.html
Euthanasia: Lines Being Crossed Left and Right - Where is This Headed?
Several countries allow euthanasia for the otherwise healthy mentally ill; California opened the door a crack in the U.S.; if ‘eliminating suffering’ is the rationale, “restricting assisted suicide to the dying is philosophically unsustainable”
https://www.lifenews.com/2020/05/20/doctors-are-euthanizing-mentally-disabled-patients-around-the-world-united-states-may-be-next/
First, assisted suicide was supposed to be for patients well-known to their doctors. Then it was loosened to specialists who show up in the final weeks. Now, doctors are assisting suicides of patients they’ve never met, through videoconferencing.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/doctors-now-assist-suicides-via-zoom/
- This shows that legal ‘safeguards’ were always bogus, just intended to lessen political opposition to assisted suicide laws. It also shows that assisted suicide, once legal, warps people’s thinking without them even realizing it.
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2020/06/assisted-suicide-by-zoom.html
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/united-kingdom-court-allows-slow-motion-euthanasia/
- “Should we allow doctors to facilitate the deaths of otherwise healthy people who are suicidal? That’s where we are heading.”
- Studies show that people who pick up major health issues, e.g., quadriplegics, ultimately are no more depressed than the general population.
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2020/05/queensland-australia-euthanasia-bill-to.html
Survey: “More UK doctors oppose than support assisted suicide” (42%-37%)
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2020/05/medscape-uk-report-more-doctors-oppose.html
Canadian bill to loosen restrictions on euthanasia to be challenged in court - because it doesn’t go far enough, euthanistas say
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2020/05/canadas-euthanasia-bill-c-7-will-be.html
- “Bill C-7 already permits euthanasia for mental illness,” opponent says
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2020/06/does-bill-c-7-prevent-euthanasia-for.html
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2020/05/uruguay-bill-would-legalize-euthanasia.html
May 17, 2020
Vatican strips ‘Catholic’ designation from 12 psychiatric hospitals in Belgium
Vatican strips ‘Catholic’ designation from 12 Brothers of Charity psychiatric hospitals in Belgium over allowing euthanasia
https://www.thetablet.co.uk/news/12897/-catholic-label-removed-from-hospitals-that-allow-euthanasia
Confused New Jersey worries about spike in suicides during pandemic but is perfectly fine with its assisted suicide law
https://evolutionnews.org/2020/05/new-jerseys-suicide-confusion/
Dutch Supreme Court’s approval of “mind-boggling horrific” case of woman who was held down and euthanized has Australian ethicists worried euthanasia’s inevitable slippery slope will descend on their country
https://catholicleader.com.au/news/australian-ethicists-concerned-by-euthanasia-law-judgments
Canadian suicide case shows failure of the people around him to provide adequate support and assistance, not the desirability of loosening restrictions on euthanasia
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2020/05/jacques-campeau-was-denied-care-he.html
Article delves into the history of the Nazi T4 euthanasia (extermination) program for the disabled; after building infrastructure for ‘merciful deaths’ for the ‘useless eaters’, the Nazis came for the Jews. All in the name of ‘racial hygiene’.
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2020/05/t-4-euthanasia-program-began-killing.html
Vatican strips ‘Catholic’ designation from 12 psychiatric hospitals in Belgium
Vatican strips ‘Catholic’ designation from 12 Brothers of Charity psychiatric hospitals in Belgium over allowing euthanasia
https://www.thetablet.co.uk/news/12897/-catholic-label-removed-from-hospitals-that-allow-euthanasia
- There are good reasons why most psychiatrists believe euthanasia for the mentally ill is a bad idea: “suicide prevention and suicide assistance are irreconcilable,” no objective standards to determine competence or unbearable suffering, people with ‘treatment-resistant’ conditions get better, etc.
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2020/05/conceiving-unconceivable-assisted.html
Confused New Jersey worries about spike in suicides during pandemic but is perfectly fine with its assisted suicide law
https://evolutionnews.org/2020/05/new-jerseys-suicide-confusion/
Dutch Supreme Court’s approval of “mind-boggling horrific” case of woman who was held down and euthanized has Australian ethicists worried euthanasia’s inevitable slippery slope will descend on their country
https://catholicleader.com.au/news/australian-ethicists-concerned-by-euthanasia-law-judgments
Canadian suicide case shows failure of the people around him to provide adequate support and assistance, not the desirability of loosening restrictions on euthanasia
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2020/05/jacques-campeau-was-denied-care-he.html
Article delves into the history of the Nazi T4 euthanasia (extermination) program for the disabled; after building infrastructure for ‘merciful deaths’ for the ‘useless eaters’, the Nazis came for the Jews. All in the name of ‘racial hygiene’.
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2020/05/t-4-euthanasia-program-began-killing.html
- What excuse will be given for government-compelled mass death the next time - climate change? A classless society? Social harmony? Racial purity when minorities become the majority? #FreeYourInnerNazi
- We are on a bad path. It started with assisted suicide for ‘intractable pain’. Then it was expanded to ‘unbearable suffering’, children, and the mentally ill. Euthanasia for ‘completed lives’ is under discussion. Where is this headed? Euthanasia advocates are never satisfied. What’s their real agenda and why won’t they tell us?