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Tag: assisted suicide

“Exploring the Alarming Rise in Canadian Assisted Suicide Deaths: Is it Here to Stay?”

Posted on December 7, 2022January 8, 2023 by Caden Benedict

With rising acceptance of euthanasia and assisted suicide comes the expanding number of Canadian citizens deemed eligible for such procedures. This article delves into the disturbing implications this has, from the vulnerabilty of patients with physical and mental illnesses to financial hardships as a reason for such end-of-life choices. The moral, ethical, and legal implications are explored, as well as a moral approach to maintaining safeguards for those vulnerable minorties. Canadians must step up to the challenge of understanding and critically examining the increasing availabilty of euthanasia in order to ensure those most in need are preserved and respected.

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Canadian gov’t calculates that expansion of assisted suicide will save taxpayers millions of dollars

Posted on May 1, 2022May 1, 2022 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

In Canada, it is easier for the disabled who do not suffer terminal illness to get approval for assisted suicide than approval for affordable housing. The government has calculated the cost of providing healthcare versus providing assisted suicide.

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Primer on U.S. Abortion Law: Supreme Court agrees to hear challenge to Louisiana abortion restriction

Posted on October 4, 2019October 10, 2019 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear argument in a case involving a Louisiana regulation on abortion doctors. It is similar to a Texas case decided in 2016.

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California to Implement Assisted Suicide on June 9

Posted on March 15, 2016 by ReligiousLiberty.TV ReligiousLiberty.TV

On June 9, 2016, California’s “End of Life Option Act,” signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown last October, will go into effect. Under the law, patients who are at least 18 years old who have been diagnosed by a treating and a consulting physician with a terminal disease expected to result in death within 6 months may request aid-in-dying drugs. Verbal requests must be made 15 days apart and one must be signed, dated, and witnessed by two adults. A mental health assessment is not required unless the physician feels that there may be a mental disorder.

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"death with dignity"

Why California’s New “Death with Dignity” Law Will Make Suicide Common and Expected

Posted on October 7, 2015August 17, 2019 by ReligiousLiberty.TV ReligiousLiberty.TV

On October 5, 2015, California Governor Jerry Brown signed legislation that will permit terminally ill patients to obtain medications that will enable them to end their own lives. The legislation had been opposed by disability rights groups that were concerned that people would choose to end their lives because of financial worries or depression.

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Assisted Suicide Legislation Would Leave Elderly, Disabled, and Depressed Vulnerable

Posted on May 27, 2015May 29, 2015 by Michael Peabody

California’s proposed assisted-suicide bill does not require psychiatric evaluations which would rule-out depression, fear or anxiety as a primary motive for requesting assisted suicide, and does not provide adequate checks and balances to ensure that the disabled and elderly are protected. It could also lead to an increase in non-therapeutic suicides as it becomes socially acceptable. It costs only $35-50 for life-ending “medication” as opposed to hundreds of thousands of dollars for terminal healthcare, thus the cost-saving incentive is significant.

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Professor Steven Calabresi on Enforcing Morality (Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy)

Posted on June 26, 2008 by Michael Peabody

In this essay published in the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Steven Calabresi, the George C. Dix Professor of Constitutional Law, Northwestern University School of Law, comments on Judge Robert Bork’s thought-provoking book, Slouching Towards Gomorrah, specifically focusing on governmental efforts to enforce morality.  Calabresi argues that there is a place in the…

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