How Assisted Suicide Euthanized Roe v. Wade
The 1997 ruling in Glucksberg, a euthanasia case, provided the primary precedent for striking down Roe as bad constitutional law.
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Disabled Man Commits Italy’s First Legal Assisted Suicide
The patient who killed himself was not terminally ill, but paralyzed — illustrating the fact that assisted suicide isn’t about terminal illness.
Canadian Bill to Allow Euthanasia of Dementia Patients
If the patient resists, the killing is not supposed to take place. As though the person would know what was happening.
Suicide: Oregon Becomes America’s Switzerland
The state has eradicated the requirement that a patient accessing assisted suicide be a resident, opening the doors to suicide tourism.
Study: Legalizing Assisted Suicide Is Associated with Increased Suicides
Proponents for legalizing assisted suicide should be forced to face this issue.
Spain Joins the Euthanize-and-Organ-Harvest Club
Spain has joined Belgium and the Netherlands in allowing the conjoining of euthanasia and organ donation — including of the mentally ill.
George Will Pushes the Hemlock
The usually factually fastidious columnist has made a highly misleading case for physician-assisted suicide.
Execution by Firing Squad
What does it say about human life when the state employs a doctor to administer lethal drugs?
Austria Legalizes Assisted Suicide
Don’t expect the supposedly ‘strict guidelines’ — which are pretty wide open to begin with — to stick.
‘Systemic Ageism’ Blamed for Excess COVID Deaths, Ignored with Euthanasia
The crises reported in this story have equal impact on doctor-prescribed death as they do lapses in proper care. They are just far less discussed.