While mass protests against a court verdict backing a near-total ban on abortion have taken on an increasingly political flavour in Poland, the devout Catholic country is far from turning pro-choice.
Read MoreSWISS doctors have asked all over 60s and heart patients to sign ‘do not resuscitate’ forms to free up intensive care beds. Campaigners for the elderly Pro Senectute Schweiz condemned the move and said the doctors' appeal was premature and excessive
Read MoreAbortion doctors in Ireland have described late-term abortion as “‘brutal’, ‘awful’ and ‘emotionally difficult’, referring to it as ‘stabbing the baby in the heart’, and held themselves responsible for the death of the baby”.
Read More“Is it fair to eliminate a human life to solve a problem? Is it fair to hire a hitman to solve a problem?” he said. He expressed his gratitude for their letter and said they were women “who know what life is.”
Read MoreLametti also said he hopes the medical assistance in dying (MAID) regime will eventually be further expanded to people who are suffering solely from mental illness, but the government doesn’t have enough time to do it before a court-ordered deadline of Dec. 18 for this bill to pass.
Read MoreWhat initially starts as a refusal to speak up, quickly makes us actively complicit in the system that enables and carries out grave evils.
Read MoreThe new code says that in cases where a patient has advanced dementia, “it is not necessary for the doctor to agree with the patient the time or manner in which euthanasia will be given”.
Read MoreOne couple had waited for their prenatal screening to come back normal before announcing the pregnancy to friends and family. “We wanted to wait,” they’d told their loved ones, “because if it had Down syndrome, we would have had an abortion.”
Read MoreDr Lauren Mai is a stroke neurologist from Canada who is extremely concerned that MAiD (Medical Assistance in Dying) assessors in Canada are not experts in stroke recovery and so euthanasia is being proposed as the solution instead of genuine treatment options for stroke victims.
Read MoreThe latest quarterly data from Stats NZ showed the ratio of births to the number of women of child-bearing age was now 1.63 - well below the 2.1 ratio needed to keep the population growing.
Read MoreAbortion has ramifications beyond the actions of a woman and an abortionist, and those ramifications are very serious for all of us.
Read MoreThis is not a matter of if, it is a matter of when - and with the serious safety flaws in the EOLCA it probably won’t take long for vulnerable people to start falling victim to this Act.
Read MoreVoting is the one regular opportunity we are given to have a direct controlling stake in the future governance of our country, so how do we do that in a moral and meaningful way?
Read MoreThere is nothing in the End of Life Choice Act that would prevent just such a scenario - the premeditated killing of a vulnerable patient under the guise of euthanasia - from happening, and then going completely undetected by anyone.
Read MoreThinking we can normalise some suicides, even going so far as to call them good and dignified, while, at the same time claiming that we can continue to maintain a strong commitment to ending other suicides is, at best, wishful thinking.
Read MoreTo fair though, this isn’t just about Jami-Lee Ross. We think there are good reasons for pro-life voters to be concerned with the NZ Public Party policy on abortion as well.
Read MoreLast week National MP Harete Hipango committed thoughtcrime and wrong-speak. She dared to challenge the integrity of Jacinda Ardern and her pet project - the extreme new Abortion Legislation Act that was rushed into law in March this year.
Read MoreEvery time a violent injustice has been perpetrated against innocent human beings, those seeking to raise awareness and motivate social change about it have employed graphic images in their quest.
Read MoreEarlier this week news broke that an upcoming documentary about Norma McCorvey - the plaintiff in the infamous US Roe v Wade abortion court case - is going to reveal that she had lied about becoming pro-life.
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