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Belgian Euthanasia Increases by 89% in four years.
Belgian Euthanasia Increases by 89% in fur years.
News Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
Ban on adoption of Russian children by Belgians
Russian Lower House MPs have asked the Foreign Ministry to study the recently passed law allowing child euthanasia in Belgium in order to decide if its citizens should be legally banned from adopting Russian kids.
News Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
Canada : no to euthanasia and assisted suicide
BC Court of Appeal upholds protections in law from euthanasia and assisted suicide. The Supreme Court of Canada is next.
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A call to make assisted suicide available to prisoners
Writing on the Oxford University blog Practical Ethics, Christian Browne, a young British doctor and bioethicist, argues that the plight of prisoners is essentially the same as the terminally ill. A life sentence behind...
News Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
BBC accused of ‘bias’ in favour of assisted suicide
The BBC has been accused of acting as a “cheerleader” for assisted suicide by broadcasting campaigners' views on national television without opposition. (The Telegraph)
News Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
Most doctors opposes physician-assisted suicide, poll finds
Whether doctors should help patients die continues to be a hotly debated topic within the medical community, a New England Journal of Medicine poll finds. The journal questioned readers about a hypothetical near-death...
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Euthanasia : “too many, too much for me !” says Dr Sarah Van Laer
Dr Sarah Van Laer, who has euthanased 28 patients since legalisation in 2002, has complained bitterly to the Belgian newspaper De Standaard about the burdens of her work.
News Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
Put disabled babies out of our misery, say Dutch doctors
In a new policy document, “Medical decisions about the lives of newborns with severe abnormalities” ( in Dutch only ) the KNMG explains why it is acceptable, and perhaps even necessary, to euthanase children. This is no...
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