This Bill will make Labour's extreme Abortion Legislation Act even more extreme by making free speech and offering to help someone a criminal act in public spaces around New Zealand.
Read MoreMore and more it felt and seemed clear to me that they all had their own ideas and agendas. They were determined to convince me of their views and beliefs, always coming back to them repeatedly asking and trying to get me to terminate the pregnancy.
Read More“These children have the right to a worthy burial as they are persons from the moment of conception. The right to life is a right that cannot be taken away from anyone, including and above all from a defenseless child in the womb.”
Read MoreThe last time Ray Chwartkowski saw his sister, Cheryl Lowen, was two days before she was euthanised in December, 2019. “She never had a diagnosis for any terminal illness,” he said. “I consider her death a total tragedy.”
Read MoreHill, whose career spans more than 20 years, said it was a crisis procedure a doctor might only see "once in a life time, if that. As an anaesthetist, you train for it but you never think you will actually have to do it. It was an absolute last resort and no one knew if it would work," he said.
Read MoreIs it any wonder that this election turned out the way that it did when, for most of us, our usual experience is three years of silence, and then a few vague and confusing equivocations about abortion, and a stern warning not to be ‘single issue voters’, in the last few weeks before an election?
Read MoreWhen Declan Colquhoun was born, his aunt's wedding ring would have fitted around his arm. He and twin brother Riley were born at just 23 weeks and one day on March 3. It's considered the edge of viability - babies born earlier are not usually resuscitated.
Read MoreAFP Fact Check, which describes itself as “the leading global fact-checking organisation”, has been caught promoting false and misleading claims about New Zealand’s new Abortion Legislation Act which was passed by the Labour Government in 2020.
Read MoreWhile mass protests against a court verdict backing a near-total ban on abortion have taken on an increasingly political flavour in Poland, the devout Catholic country is far from turning pro-choice.
Read MoreSWISS doctors have asked all over 60s and heart patients to sign ‘do not resuscitate’ forms to free up intensive care beds. Campaigners for the elderly Pro Senectute Schweiz condemned the move and said the doctors' appeal was premature and excessive
Read MoreAbortion doctors in Ireland have described late-term abortion as “‘brutal’, ‘awful’ and ‘emotionally difficult’, referring to it as ‘stabbing the baby in the heart’, and held themselves responsible for the death of the baby”.
Read More“Is it fair to eliminate a human life to solve a problem? Is it fair to hire a hitman to solve a problem?” he said. He expressed his gratitude for their letter and said they were women “who know what life is.”
Read MoreLametti also said he hopes the medical assistance in dying (MAID) regime will eventually be further expanded to people who are suffering solely from mental illness, but the government doesn’t have enough time to do it before a court-ordered deadline of Dec. 18 for this bill to pass.
Read MoreWhat initially starts as a refusal to speak up, quickly makes us actively complicit in the system that enables and carries out grave evils.
Read MoreThe new code says that in cases where a patient has advanced dementia, “it is not necessary for the doctor to agree with the patient the time or manner in which euthanasia will be given”.
Read MoreOne couple had waited for their prenatal screening to come back normal before announcing the pregnancy to friends and family. “We wanted to wait,” they’d told their loved ones, “because if it had Down syndrome, we would have had an abortion.”
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