Word: euthanasia
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Some raised concerns about the so-called slippery slope toward wholesale euthanasia. Said Dr. Mark Siegler, director of the Center of Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago: "We start off with dispatching the terminally ill and the hopelessly comatose, and then perhaps our guidelines might be extended to the severely senile, the very old and decrepit and maybe even young, profoundly retarded children." Adding to such worries is the current era of medical cost cutting. "That's what this is all about, to get rid of people who are a burden to their families and the state," warned...
...religion and the right to privacy, that it would be cruel and unusual punishment to keep her alive "after the dignity, beauty, promise and meaning of earthly life have vanished." A court-appointed guardian for Karen countered that the parents had no right to propose what amounted to euthanasia. The doctors' lawyer claimed that no court could determine whether or not Karen might yet recover. The state attorney general also felt obliged to intervene and sided with the doctors...
...taxes from their federal returns. To the outrage of politicians from high-tax states, this break would be wiped out by the Reagan plan, thus saving the Treasury $22 billion a year. By delivering "a really crushing blow" to New Yorkers, charges Governor Mario Cuomo, Reagan is attempting "governmental euthanasia...
...dispel any lingering doubts about his rigorous stance, the touring Pontiff stressed again and again the need for a disciplined church that is attentive to official teaching. To an audience of 400,000 in Caracas he issued another in his series of traditionalist condemnations of birth control, abortion, euthanasia and illicit sex. The morning after saying Mass in Maracaibo, he moved on to Merida, where he urged a throng to accept church teachings "with meekness" and not to be "dragged away by ideologies contrary to Catholic dogma...
...plopped the current issue of Harvard Magazine onto my stomach as I lay in bed recovering from New Year's Eve festivities. "Look what's on the cover," she said. "What," indeed. At least the contents behind that now-infamous cover of England's Best Advertisement for Fashion Euthanasia couldn't make me feet any worse than I was feeling already, so I took the plunge into "Androgynous Zones" by Peter Engel...