Alex SchadenbergExecutive Director – Euthanasia Prevention Coalition I was contacted by man with a disability, who was telling me how he was feeling pressured to ask for euthanasia. After explaining his concerns he sent me this email comment: I am living in the advanced stages of quadriplegia, now 33 years along. I am feeling the…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the leading U.S. federal agency for public health protection, recently changed its information on natural birth control methods on their website. Until now, the site mentioned a failure rate of 24% for these methods, a figure intended to discourage couples from using them and to prevent doctors…
The Faculty of Theology at the University of Malta is currently accepting applications for the Master of Arts in Bioethics (opening October 2019). Offered on a part-time basis (evening), the course aims to foster a culture respectful of bioethics and to empower candidates for ethical decision and policy-making relevant to their professional practices. The M.A. in Bioethics is strongly inter-disciplinary. It encourages research in bioethics and…
Fuente “Las leyes que rigen la humanidad misma del hombre son de origen más que humano”, afirma en esta entrevista el filósofo francés Rémi Brague. Pero hay que prestar mucha atención a lo que se entiende por “leyes divinas”: son las condiciones mínimas de supervivencia de la humanidad, todo lo contrario a estar “sometido a…
Fuente July 18, 2019 (Society for the Protection of Unborn Children) — The 2018 Abortion Statistics, published June 13 by the Department of Health and Social Care, show that 205,295 unborn babies were killed by abortion last year. The total is just short of the highest on record (205,598 in 2007), but the number of abortions performed…
Fuente «¿Vale algo la vida humana?» El periodista y columnista de ABC, Pedro García Cuartango, llevaba días rumiando esta pregunta desde que hace unas semanas la joven de 17 años Noa Pothoven decidiera poner fin a su vida ante la indiferencia de la sociedad holandesa. Y con este interrogante y su respuesta -«vivir es un imperativo…
“The Lambert case is not about the end-of-life debate but rather the place of disabled people in our societies”. It raises an issue to which Nazi Germany found a radical response by exterminating more than 200,000 disabled people between 1936 and 1945: “Should we let disabled people live when their life does not seem to us worth…
La Santa Sede ha publicado un interesante artículo sobre lo que se denomina la “ideología de género”, algo que preocupa mucho en nuestra sociedad y desde la que se está impulsando “una sociedad sin diferencias de sexo, y que vacía el fundamento antropológico de la familia. Esta ideología lleva a proyectos educativos y directrices legislativas que promueven…
Fuente de la noticia. El profesor de pediatría Eduard Verhagen propone la creación de un centro específico para poder aplicar la eutanasia a los niños, y espera que su apertura se haga de manera inminente. Exactamente en el plazo de un año. Este médico es conocido por ser uno de los impulsores del protocolo de…
The Alabama Senate voted Tuesday in favour of a bill that would make abortion a crime in Alabama. The only exceptions would be cases of non-viability of the foetus and/or when the health and life of the mother is at risk. Already adopted by lawmakers on 30 April last (see U.S.: Alabama criminalizes abortion), the text provides…