Christianity isn’t the only religion struggling with the growing tolerance for euthanasia and assisted suicide. Professor Nahum Rakover, deputy attorney general of Israel, recently told a meeting of the American Zionist Movement that traditional Jewish law also forbids any form of assisted suicide of terminally ill patients. Rakover said under Jewish law, it is not necessary to take extraordinary measures to preserve [...]
REGINA- Saskatchewan farmer Robert Latimer, the man convicted of murdering his severely handicapped 12-year-old daughter in November, 1994, is certain to receive a new trial. The trial is likely to come after obstruction of justice charges were laid against the Crown prosecutor handling the Latimer case. Randy Kirkham, a crown attorney from North Battleford, Saskatchewan, was charged in late June after a [...]
The April 2 decision of a federal appeals court in New York brings a chilling new twist to the assisted suicide debate. In a unanimous decision, the three-judge panel of the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled doctors can legally help terminally ill patients end their lives. “What interest can the state possibly have in requiring the prolongation of a life [...]
Here in Canada, we usually associate Nebraska with three things: good folk, endless cornfields and top-notch football players. Recently, however the Roman Catholic bishop of Lincoln, Nebraska released a controversial statement which has shaken things up in the sleepy mid western state. Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz has taken the stnon Catholic pro-lifers, have long awaited. On the editorial page of the March 19 [...]
A Nebraska bishop has taken the unusual step of excommunicating Catholics who belong to groups favoring abortion, euthanasia or the right to dissent from official church teaching. In a March 19 statement published in The South Nebraska Register, Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz of Lincoln aid Catholic participation in such groups as Planned Parenthood, the Hemlock Society and Catholics for a Free Choice is [...]
Here in Canada, we usually associate Nebraska with three things: good folk, endless cornfields and top-notch football players. Recently, however the Roman Catholic bishop of Lincoln, Nebraska released a controversial statement which has shaken things up in the sleepy mid western state. Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz has taken the step which a great many Catholic and many non-Catholic pro-lifers, have long awaited. On [...]
A Nebraska bishop has taken the unusual step of excommunicating Catholics who belong to groups favoring abortion, euthanasia or the right to dissent from official church teaching. In a March 19 statement published in The South Nebraska Register, Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz of Lincoln aid Catholic participation in such groups as Planned Parenthood, the Hemlock Society and Catholics for a Free Choice is [...]
Australia’s Northern Territory has passed the world’s first law legalizing euthanasia. The tiny tropical territory, with a population of only 180,000, recently passed a law which allows its terminally ill residents to ask doctors to end their lives. The bill was actually passed last year but had to be sent back for rewording. Pro-life groups as well as the Australian Medical Association [...]
Man in custody for murder of local Right to Die Society president Edmonton Right to Die Society president Bruce Hutchinson, 41, got his wish last April. Firemen responded to a 911 call found his lifeless body slumped in an easy chair, with a single bullet hole in his forehead. Police initially assumed suicide; but the death-weapon was missing. So they upgraded the [...]
Man in custody for murder of local Right to Die Society president Edmonton Right to Die Society president Bruce Hutchinson, 41, got his wish last April. Firemen responded to a 911 call found his lifeless body slumped in an easy chair, with a single bullet hole in his forehead. Police initially assumed suicide; but the death-weapon was missing. So they upgraded the [...]
26 suicides and no signs of letting up for Dr. Death Jack Kevorkian has attended his 26th assisted suicide. The body of Patricia Cashman, a 58-year-old woman, was found in the back seat of a car. The official cause of death is homicide by carbon monoxide poisioning. Kevorkian does not deny his part in the death of Cashman, On Larry King Life, [...]
Former convicted of second-degree murder was awaiting Supreme Court appeal The Saskatchewan Justice Department has granted Robert Latimer the right to a new trial. Latimer has been confined to his farm near Wilkie, Saskatchewan since the upholding of his July conviction of a second degree murder in the death of his daughter, Tracy, aged 12, in October of 1993. Latimer was sentenced [...]
Pro-euthanasia group uses suffering man to raise legal funds over the Internet Canadian pro-life groups took their first steps on the information highway at the beginning of October when Kelowna Right to Life inaugurated LifeNET and Campaign Life Coalition British Columbia launched the “Save Austin Bastable” web site. LifeNET is designed not only for pro-life activists, but for students researching school projects [...]
The Christian Heritage Party of Canada will hold its fifth National Convention from November 15-18, at the Radisson Hotel in London, Ontario. Delegates from across Canada will deal with a challenging agenda including policy updates on abortion and euthanasia. Both issues will be discussed at workshops presided over by special guest speakers Partricia Bainbridge, Executive Director of Life Decisions (U.S), together with [...]
Edited by Ian Gentles Stoddart Publishing, 1995. 131 pages, $18.95 Reviewed by Sue Careless You are a high-profile, public advocate against euthanasia, but in your private life your own father, dying of bowel, stomach and liver cancer, begs you to assist him in suicide. What do you do? Ian Gentles, the editor of Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: The Current Debate recounts how, [...]