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Free Conference on Euthanasia, Assisted Suicide

Jan 20, 2021Jerry CoxEuthanasia and Assisted SuicideAssisted Suicide, Euthanasia

*Speakers for the upcoming virtual conference on preserving the sanctity of life at the end of life.*

Family Council is supporting Arkansas Right to Life’s 2021 Preserving the Sanctity of Life at the End of Life conference.

The conference is free, and it will be held virtually this year on Saturday, February 6.

Conference speakers include:

Alex Schadenberg, Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, Ontario, Canada
Dr. William Toffler, Family Medicine, Portland, Oregon
Dr. David Smith,, Hospice and Palliative Medicine Specialist, Baptist Health in Little Rock, Arkansas
Father Jason Tyler, Bioethicist, Diocese of Little Rock
Father Joseph Chan, MD, MDiv, Chaplain, Mercy Hospital, Fort Smith, Arkansas

The conference agenda is available at artl.org.

Registration is free, but space in the virtual conference is limited.

New Zealand Legalizes Euthanasia

Nov 16, 2020John StonestreetEuthanasia and Assisted SuicideEuthanasia, Life, Pro-life, Sanctity of Human Life

John Stonestreet, Radio Host and President of the Colson Center for Christian Worldview.

New Zealand is the sixth country to legalize euthanasia.

The October referendum, called the “End of Life Choice Act” had the support of both major parties, and received over 65% support from voters.

Kiwis are being promised that proposed “safeguards” will prevent the sort of abuse and spread of the practice that we’ve seen in the Netherlands and Belgium. One journalist assured Al Jazeera that the New Zealand law is “more stringent,” because it is only for “terminally-ill patients” that “they need two doctors to approve” and “there’s a long checklist” of necessary conditions.

But of course, the Netherlands and Belgian had their own “safeguards” which didn’t hold. They never do. Once a nation accepts that some lives aren’t worth living and that it’s okay for doctors to become killers, it’s impossible to prevent financial incentives from entering consideration or the most vulnerable from being pressured.

To put it another way, not even the best Kiwi intentions is immune to gravity when the slope is this slippery.

From Abortion to Assisted Suicide to Infanticide

Aug 17, 2020John StonestreetAbortion, Bioethics, Euthanasia and Assisted SuicideAbortion, Bioethics, Euthanasia, Infanticide, Life, Pro-life, Sanctity of Human Life

According to a recent survey, an astounding majority of Belgian doctors favor “after-birth abortion” for kids born with disability. In plain English, that would be called “infanticide.”

When asked whether it is morally permissible to “administer drugs” to end the life of a baby born with a “serious (but non-lethal) neonatal condition,” 94% of Belgian doctors surveyed said “yes.”

While the survey didn’t define “non-lethal condition,” it’s already permissible in Britain to abort babies with Down Syndrome, cleft lip, or club foot.

To be clear, we are not talking about Nazi doctors, or North Korea or Chinese party officials. Belgium is a Western, highly educated, democratic, modern nation which, not not coincidentally, has the world’s most liberal assisted suicide laws.

Certain ideas make other ideas thinkable. It’s how the unimaginable become acceptable. The slope from abortion to infanticide by way of doctor-assisted-suicide is a slippery one indeed.