French deputies began debating a highly permissive “end of life” bill on May 27, despite strong opposition from Catholic bishops and concerns about undermining palliative care.
Euthanasia
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
We’re all Cafeteria Catholics
Statistician Ryan Burge set out to learn how many Catholics agree with church teachings on three key pro-life issues: abortion, euthanasia and the death penalty. The answer? Fewer than 1 percent.
Posted inPolitics & Society, The Weekly Dispatch
Will Canada allow autism to become a justification for assisted suicide?
A court decision in Canada crossed a regrettable, if predictable, redline. For the first time, a young woman successfully applied to proceed with medical assistance in dying based on her autism diagnosis.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Physician-assisted suicide is gaining popularity. But there are better options.
Physician-assisted suicide can seem like an easy fix to a health care system reluctant to deal with end-of-life issues. But there are other options, including hospice care, that patients deserve to know about.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
A crisis in Canada: Medical assistance in dying is not what our most vulnerable people need.
The legalization of euthanasia in Canada—so-called medical assistance in dying, or MAID—challenges our common values and shakes the very foundations of our living together.
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Dr. Michael Brescia, ‘apostle to the dying’ and hospice trailblazer, dies at age 90
Dr. Michael Brescia, who prescribed love as an antidote to calls for assisted suicide, died at his home in Yorktown Heights, New York, surrounded by immediate family the evening of April 19. He was 90.
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
Podcast: How women’s votes will transform the synod
In this week’s episode of Inside the Vatican, Gerry and Ricardo discuss women being able to vote in the synod, the pope’s visit to Hungary and Archbishop Paglia’s statement about euthanasia.
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Head of the the Pontifical Academy for Life affirms his opposition to euthanasia
“Personally,” the archbishop told his audience, “I would not assist with a suicide, but I understand that legal mediation may be the greatest common good concretely possible under the conditions in which we find ourselves.”
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
Canada’s euthanasia regime: How many more will die in the name of ‘compassion’?
There is a reason the Catholic Church often speaks of abortion and euthanasia together as life issues.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
A young Canadian woman is reconsidering medically assisted dying after a GoFundMe campaign
For a young woman with acute environmental hypersensitivity, applying to government authorities for assistance with dying has proved far easier than dealing with the housing bureaucracy.