Make Your Health Care Decisions … Or They Will Be Made for You Important explanations and resources to help you ensure that your end of life healthcare decisions will be implemented. Read document. Protect Yourself and Your Loved Ones from Euthanasia—Pro-Life Advance Medical Directives If you have not yet made your Advance Medical Directive, Life Legal Defense […]
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Wesley J. Smith Can anything good come out of the United Nations? Actually, yes. Little noted in December, the General Assembly adopted a “Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.” If ratified by most member nations, the convention could strengthen protections for many people with disabilities. This is no trivial matter. In many countries,
In the wake of Terri Schiavo’s imposed death by dehydration and starvation, pro-life leaders are urging people to protect their own lives and the lives of their loved ones in two ways. First, by appointing an agent to make medical decisions for you in the event that you become incapable of expressing your wishes and
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Leslie Burke wants to live; the National Health Service has a second opinion. London. The most important bioethics litigation in the world today involves a 45-year-old Englishman, Leslie Burke. He isn’t asking for very much. Burke has a progressive neurological disease that may one day deprive him of the ability to swallow. If that happens,
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Wesley J Smith It is the calm before the storm in the Terri Schiavo case. The Florida woman, who was in the throes of a courtordered death by dehydration last October when Florida’s legislature and Governor Jeb Bush intervened, continues to receive tube-supplied food and water. But this good news may not last. In December,
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Wesley J Smith When Oregon Voters legalized assisted suicide in 1994, state regulators had a problem. They wanted to authorize doctors to prescribe barbiturates as killing agents. But the federal government regulates the use of these drugs under the Controlled Substances Act, and federal law did not permit their use to intentionally kill. Ordinarily, that
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Robert Wendland died on July 17, 2001. His mother, Florence, was with him when he died. Robert’s death followed several weeks of disturbing reports from Florence concerning the situation at Lodi Memorial Hospital, where Robert had lived since his accident in 1993. As reported elsewhere in this issue [see this page], the oral argument of
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Dana Cody Thank you to all our readers who continue to support LLDF with their prayers, time, and donations. On May 30, 2001, your prayers were answered when Janie Hickok Siess argued for Robert Wendland’s right to life on behalf of Florence Wendland, Robert’s mother, and Rebekah Vinson, Robert’s sister, before the State Supreme Court.
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Anne Starr A 49-year-old California man is in danger of dying by starvation because he is not a useful member of society. Robert Wendland, who lives in Lodi, is brain-damaged as the result of a vehicle accident in 1993. He cannot speak, feed himself or control his bowels. His doctors say he will never resume
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