Pro-life leader warns that the burden of pensions and healthcare costs will mean more people must die. In his book Don't Trust Anyone Over 30: A History of the Baby Boom, Howard Smead called the boomers "the most egocentric generation in the history of mankind." From hippies to yuppies, from war protesters to corporate lobbyists, the sheer number of baby boomers - [...]
Raises concerns that assisted suicide will be legalized Alex Schadenberg The Interim A Canadian study that was sponsored by the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences and published in the Archives of Internal Medicine has found that seniors have the highest rate of suicide in Canada. As people age or become sick, the risk of suicide goes up substantially, with the highest suicide [...]
Commentary by Tony Gosgnach The Interim Two of the great media guru Marshall McLuhan's most notable slogans were "the medium is the message" and "all news is fake." Given the recent Canadian federal election campaign, one can verily say that truer words were never spoken. "Mainstream" media outlets and their reporters exhibited a shocking degree of selective, slanted and outright biased coverage [...]
Euthanasia, often referred to as "mercy killing," is an act or failure to act which of itself and by intention causes a person's death, with the intention to end suffering. Legally, euthanasia is classified as homicide. "Active euthanasia" refers to an act which intentionally causes the death of another person. This can be done in many ways, but is usually associated with [...]
From March 17 - 20 the International Federation of Catholic Medical Associations and the Pontifical Academy for Life hosted the International Congress on "Life-Sustaining Treatments and Vegetative State: Scientific Advances and Ethical Dilemmas" in Rome at the Augustinianum University. I represented the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition to receive the most up-to-date information concerning the scientific advances and to be part of the debate [...]
Interim StaffEuthanasia Prevention Coalition executive director Alex Schadenberg got the sanctity of life message out beyond the typical pro-life crowds when he spoke to the Southern Alberta Council on Public Affairs (SACPA) on Feb. 19, 2004. SACPA is an organization connected to the University of Lethbridge that explores public policy issues. During his excursion to Alberta, Schadenberg also spoke with two pro-life [...]
By Alex Schadenberg The InterimIn the February Interim, it was reported that the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition's (EPC) legal counsel, Hugh Scher, obtained intervenor status in the case of an 81-year-old woman, Mrs. Holland, who was to be denied life-sustaining medical care against her previously expressed wishes. The trial was heard by Justice Cullity, Jan. 20-23, in Toronto.The trial was originally scheduled for [...]
There can be seen today, in late modern society, a furtive obsession with sex in all its forms and manifestations. This is likely to be, among many people, an attempt to psychologically counteract the fact that, almost everywhere in late-modern society, death (abortion), sterility (the collapse of large and stable families), violence (burgeoning crime rates), and horror (in the media) reign. Late-modern [...]
'Merciful Release': The History of the British Euthanasia Movement by N.D.A. Kemp (Manchester University Press, $74.95 (US), 288 pages). Review by Ian R. Dowbiggin The Interim It seems that hardly a day goes by without euthanasia making front-page news. Taken from the Greek word for "good death," euthanasia is one of the most contentious, hot-button issues today. Belgium, Switzerland and the Netherlands [...]
The life of 39-year-old Terri Schiavo, who was brain damaged in an apparent heart attack in 1999, is in the hands of the legislatures and lawyers of the state of Florida. The court-ordered removal of Terri's feeding tube on Oct. 15 was overturned by a bill passed in the Florida state legislature six days later. But the passage of the bill, which [...]
The rhetoric put forward to rationalize the killing of an innocent person, especially one with whom the killer has a close or even intimate relationship, has always required considerable ingenuity. This is not so much the case at the present moment. In recent years, an individual has come into prominence who is the very personification of death-on-request. Shunning the need for laboured [...]
U.S. politics Pro-abortion and population control proponent billionare George Soros is funding a new political action group, America Coming Together, to oppose President George W. Bush and numerous pro-life senatorial and congressional candidates. The anticipated $75 million fund was set up with a $10 million donation from Soros and will be headed by Ellen Malcolm, president of EMILY's List, a pro-abortion political action committee. [...]
The Council of Canadians with Disabilities and the Canadian Bar Association Law for the Future Fund funded a study written by disability lawyer, Orville Endicott, which asks (answers) the question: Can safeguards protect the interests of vulnerable persons if physician-assisted death were legal? Endicott, is a barrister and solicitor, who serves as part-time legal counsel to Community Living Ontario and as a [...]
Canada The Canadian Press reports that "a part-time job counselling United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan is almost a certainty" for Jean Chretien once he steps down as prime minister ... The National Post reports that one-world advocate and depopulation extremistMaurice Strong, currently a special adviser to Annan, will become a senior adviser for international and environmental issues to Paul Martin if he wins the Liberal leadership [...]
Derek Humphry, the main founder of the Hemlock Society, was born in Bath, Somerset, southwest of London, England, on April 29, 1930. His childhood was not a happy one. At an early age, after his parents divorced, his mother left him to marry an Australian. He did not see her again until he was 23, but their re-acquaintance was short-lived. She announced, [...]