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…
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…
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…
Noticia íntegra Federico de Montalvo es profesor de Derecho Constitucional en la Universidad de Comillas y preside desde hace seis meses el Comité de Bioética de España, el órgano asesor del Gobierno en temas candentes como la eutanasia, la maternidad subrogada, los frentes antivacunas y las decenas de puertas éticas que abren las nuevas tecnologías.…
On 4 May 2019, the UN International Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) – to which the matter was referred by Vincent Lambert’s parents – asked France to suspend, “as a precautionary measure,” the decision to stop Vincent Lambert’s hydration and nutrition “while this case is investigated on its merits“. “Although we…
By Richard Egan, researcher with the Australian Care Alliance The latest annual report on euthanasia and assisted suicide from the Netherlands shows that in 2018 the number of reported deaths by euthanasia decreased – for the first time since legalisation – to 6126 (a 7% decrease from 6585 cases in 2017). Dutch deaths by euthanasia for 2018 include…
When Belgium extended euthanasia to children in February 2014, by eliminating the age limit for lethal injection, we had hoped that no child would die in this manner. The first official child euthanasia in Belgium was reported in September 2016. The 2017 Belgian euthanasia data showed that the number of euthanasia deaths continues to increase,…
The One of Us Federation warns about dehumanization of euthanasia. Euthanasia means abandoning people hit by serious ill and disabilities considered without human dignity. This option does not make sense, from an ethical, medical and juridical point of view. One of us Federaton instead states the need to guarantee and improve palliative care, because human…
Under the current abortion bill, refusing to refer patients to doctors willing to perform abortions would “be a breach of the law”. While the law allows conscientious objection and allows doctors to refuse to perform abortions, it obliges them to ” make such arrangements for the transfer of care of the pregnant woman concerned as may…
