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America Magazine » Euthanasia
2w ago
A court decision in Canada crossed a regrettable, if predictable, redline. For the first time, a young woman successfully applied to proceed with medical assistance in dying based on her autism diagnosis ..read more
America Magazine » Euthanasia
2M ago
Physician-assisted suicide can seem like an easy fix to a health care system reluctant to deal with end-of-life issues. But there are other options, including hospice care, that patients deserve to know about ..read more
America Magazine » Euthanasia
10M ago
The legalization of euthanasia in Canada—so-called medical assistance in dying, or MAID—challenges our common values and shakes the very foundations of our living together ..read more
America Magazine » Euthanasia
11M ago
Spanish bishops published their own letter on the issue last December, “Sowers of Hope,” in which they reminded Catholics that “there is no one that can’t be cared for even if they are incurable ..read more
America Magazine » Euthanasia
11M ago
For a young woman with acute environmental hypersensitivity, applying to government authorities for assistance with dying has proved far easier than dealing with the housing bureaucracy ..read more
America Magazine » Euthanasia
11M ago
There is a reason the Catholic Church often speaks of abortion and euthanasia together as life issues ..read more
America Magazine » Euthanasia
11M ago
“Personally,” the archbishop told his audience, “I would not assist with a suicide, but I understand that legal mediation may be the greatest common good concretely possible under the conditions in which we find ourselves ..read more
America Magazine » Euthanasia
11M ago
In this week's episode of Inside the Vatican, Gerry and Ricardo discuss women being able to vote in the synod, the pope's visit to Hungary and Archbishop Paglia's statement about euthanasia ..read more
America Magazine » Euthanasia
11M ago
Dr. Michael Brescia, who prescribed love as an antidote to calls for assisted suicide, died at his home in Yorktown Heights, New York, surrounded by immediate family the evening of April 19. He was 90 ..read more