Euthanasia: Terms and Definitions

Voluntary Euthanasia: The person who is killed has requested to be killed.  (This may involve physician-assisted suicide if a physician is assisting in the death.)  Non-Voluntary Euthanasia: The person who is killed made no request and gave no consent....

Euthanasia: Devaluing Human Life

Euthanasia is a growing problem in the United States and across the world.  Physician-assisted suicide was legalized in Oregon in 1994 (and later implemented in 1997), introducing sanctioned euthanasia to the United States.  Washington followed suit in 2008...

Euthanasia: Devaluing Human Life

Euthanasia is a growing problem in the United States and across the world.  Physician-assisted suicide was legalized in Oregon in 1994 (and later implemented in 1997), introducing sanctioned euthanasia to the United States.  Washington followed suit in 2008...

Health Care Reform

President Obama is proposing a massive national health care reform (America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009), including a new nationwide insurance plan that could produce the greatest expansion of abortion since Roe v. Wade.  During President...

Terminal Sedation

What is Terminal Sedation? Terminal sedation (also known as deep sedation) is the medical practice of administering sufficient palliative drugs to render a patient unconscious.  This type of sedation is usually used only when lesser pain management is...

Voting Pro-Life: Single-Issue Voting?

Pro-Lifers are often attacked because we vote on just one issue—Life.  We are criticized for supporting or rejecting a candidate based on his or her commitment to defend innocent human life.  This position, however, is defensible in several ways....