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Thanks to Massachusetts Second Thoughts for sharing this very good article: http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/10/21/court_stays_off_euthanasias_slippery_slope_dimanno.html. Some will object to its conflation of euthanasia and assisted suicide.  We think it is correct to do so; these two cannot be separated.  Once doctors prescribe a lethal dose of drugs to someone, there are no provisions in any of the assisted […]

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There was good news this week on the assisted suicide front, proving once more that states like Vermont and countries like the Netherlands are oddities, not the forerunners of a trend. In Canada,  a British Columbia court of appeals overturned  a lower court ruling that had held Canada’s assisted suicide ban to be unconstitutional.   In […]

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An “official” ethics committee charged with coming up with recommendations to the French  Goverment about whether to legalize assisted suicide has said, “No” with  a majority vote.  Of course France’s President Hollande will still try to get an assisted suicide law passed.  Let’s hope this recommendation from the Ethics Advisory Committee serves to wake up […]

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