We Cannot Let Patients Kill Themselves
This article appears in the February 1, 2019 edition of the Catholic Free Press The Massachusetts legislature has once again introduced a bill to legalize physician-assisted suicide (PAS). Deemed the…
Not So Subtle Coercion
The Guardian newspaper recently published an extensive and informative article on euthanasia and assisted suicide, Death on demand: has euthanasia gone too far? I have written about how coercion is…
Churches, Worship, and People in Crisis
Sometimes all people need is someone to listen to them. In our small, independent medical practice we have 30 minute appointments and often run behind because our patients need the…
Autonomy, Except for Religious Reasons
In Australia, a judge has ordered that a pregnant teenage who is a Jehovah’s Witness receive a blood transfusion should she need one when being induced to deliver her baby.…
Unmasking in the Assisted Suicide Debate
“It was not what you did that damned you; it was what you were.” Peter Baehr wrote an interesting article at Mercatornet about his research into unmasking. He begins by…
Opioids and Assisted Suicide
We’ve been told by assisted suicide advocates that doctors would prescribe lethal doses of opioids to their cancer patients who wanted “aid in dying,” or that patients would stockpile their…
What Does Coercion Look Like?
“You hold her down and I’ll give her the drink.” “Your condition is not worth treating. Let’s start the Medical Aid in Dying process.” This may be what people think…
AMA Remains Opposed to Assisted Suicide
Physician-assisted suicide is “fundamentally incompatible with the physician’s role as healer.” That is the position the AMA still holds despite the rather dramatic pleas from those seeking a position of “engaged…
Nature and dignity 