by Ashley Solano | Apr 26, 2023 | Assisted Suicide, Denial of Treatment, Euthanasia, Healthcare, Issues, Legislation, News
Since the legalization of Medical Aid in Dying (MAID), Canada has been all over the headlines. Through the MAID program over 31,000 people have died. Advocates of the legalization of MAID assured that the program would be used in rare cases, confined to terminally ill...
by Ashley Solano | Mar 22, 2023 | Assisted Suicide, Denial of Treatment, Euthanasia, Issues, News
The odds are that, like a large segment of our population, you have never heard of Medical Aid in Dying (MAID). What exactly is it? Medical Aid in Dying (MAID) was legalized in Canada in 2016, and is the process through which a doctor or nurse practitioner assists an...
by Miranda Willborg | Feb 7, 2023 | Assistance, Bioethics, Denial of Treatment, Euthanasia, Issues, Legislation, News
(This is the third article of our brain death series. Make sure to read Article 1 and Article 2, and be on the lookout for the next article in the series!) On paper, the concept of brain death seems relatively simple: apply a legal definition of brain death to a...
by Ashley Solano | Jan 31, 2023 | Assistance, Bioethics, Denial of Treatment, Euthanasia, Issues, News
(This is the second article of our brain death series. Make sure to read Article 1: (Is Brain Death a New Way of Defining Death?) and be on the lookout for the next article in the series!) Only a handful of stories have appeared in the mainstream media of the...
by Emily K. Cook | Jan 17, 2023 | Assistance, Bioethics, Denial of Treatment, Euthanasia, Futile Care, Issues, News
You’ve probably known someone, perhaps a loved one, who was declared brain dead. An estimated 15,405 patients in American hospitals were diagnosed and declared brain dead in 2016. That’s about 42 every day. But what exactly is brain death? First coined in 1968, brain...
by Kim Schwartz | Nov 22, 2022 | Denial of Treatment, Euthanasia, Healthcare, Issues, News
God is working miracles through Pro-Life folks like you! Jesus S. is a 44-year-old man who landed in the hospital after suffering complications from COVID-19.But on November 8, his brother called Texas Right to Life in desperation because this Christian hospital...
