December 10 is the annual observance of Human Rights Day. The United Nations declared the day of education and activism in 1950 in response to the atrocities of World War II. After the Holocaust, people around the world vowed that never again would human Life be...
Last Thursday, 19-year-old Sam Oosterhoff won an Ontario byelection to become the youngest Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) in Ontario history. Oosterhoff, who took a year off from his studies at Brock University to run, now represents Niagara West-Glanbrook as...
A horrific story has emerged from the Netherlands, where a young woman was killed by euthanasia after doctors deemed care for her manifold psychiatric troubles futile. The woman was a victim of sexual abuse and suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). ...
According to a recent analysis, Texas fell to 10th place on the list of most Pro-Life states in 2014. That’s down four spots from the previous year. The analysis accounted for each state’s treatment of abortion, preborn and newborn children,...
Every election cycle, interest groups across the spectrum make recommendations about which candidates they believe will best work to achieve certain policy ends in elected office. The Pro-Life community is no different. Each primary election season, the Texas...
Euthanasia, or the medical killing of disabled and elderly individuals, became legal in the Netherlands in 2002. Technically, patients must have an advance directive or living will stating in the form of a legal document that they wish to be...
As the debate over doctor-assisted suicide explodes in the U.S., disability rights activists – many of whom are disabled themselves—implore legislators to study data regarding discrimination, pressure, and coercion against disabled individuals to end their...
As the debate over doctor-assisted suicide explodes in the U.S., disability rights activists – many of whom are disabled themselves—implore legislators to study data regarding discrimination, pressure, and coercion against disabled individuals to end their...
When proponents of doctor-assisted suicide were brainstorming a name for their movement, they settled on a title that could not be further from the reality of suicide: “Death with Dignity.” The movement is decades-old and has won few legislative...
Many people argue that abortion (and euthanasia, embryonic stem cell research, assisted suicide, etc.) is ethically permissible because it is legal. This argument not only fails historically (ethnic cleansing was legal in Nazi Germany, for example), but science...