In a recent presentation at the St. Thomas More Society banquet in Ottawa, Dr. Margaret Somerville, head of the McGill Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law, said the rapid development in new reproductive technologies requires a
What is in-vitro fertilization? It is a medical technique used to artificially facilitate the conception of a baby. Its name is derived from the fact that fertilization takes place in a petri dish, a glass
Patient Paul Mills died on November 10, 1996 at the Queen Elizabeth the Second Health Centre in Halifax. He was terminally ill and being treated for esophageal cancer. Dr. Nancy Morrison was arrested and
Can pain be controlled? Specialists assure us that most pain can be controlled through the appropriate use of opiates and narcotics. If you know someone who has recently died in uncontrolled pain, the reason
Introduction. In ancient times, doctors were both healers and killers. Hippocrates and the Oath which bears his name changed all that : medicine became dedicated to healing alone. The significance of this change
(It's not as if death is optional.) The RIGHT TO DIE really means: choosing death to solve a problem, doctors and nurses killing patients, assistance in suicide. Expedience, even compassion has never been a
I believe that this is a personal tragedy for the Latimer family as any domestic crime involving the loss of life would be a tragedy. Tracy Latimer is a tragic victim of misguided beliefs.
Years before euthanasia was legalized in Canada in June 2016, palliative care nurse Jean Echlin wrote of her experience at the beside of terminally ill patients and issued a warning about the consequences of
By Wesley J. Smith First, Dutch euthanasia advocates said that patient killing will be limited to the competent, terminally ill who ask for it. Then, when doctors began euthanizing patients who clearly were not
C'était le début de mon avant-dernière année d'école secondaire. J'étais emballé, j'envisageais avec plaisir une autre année de natation,de gymnastique et de courses sur piste. Mais cet émoi connut une fin rapide quand j'ai