(The Christian Institute) — New guidance from the British Medical Association (BMA) advises searching the old online content of patients on life-support to see if they want to die. The BMA said that emails and social media posts could contain evidence that a seriously ill patient would prefer not to live with a disease or […]
In a recent social media post, new Planned Parenthood President Leana Wen asserted that the organization’s services, which include the provision of contraceptives and abortions, are “standard medical care,” and healthcare is a “basic human right.” “From here on out, we want to be clear: Planned Parenthood services, from birth control to cancer screenings and […]
(The Christian Institute) — NHS health boards that allow male doctors to self-identify as female deter some women from accessing medical care, a survey has revealed. The Times reports that the survey of 2,000 women, conducted by the Women and Girls in Scotland campaign group, revealed that vulnerable women felt scared and unsure about the […]
(The Christian Institute) — A doctor has been charged with unlawfully ending a patient’s life in the first case of its kind since euthanasia was legalized in the Netherlands in 2002. The nursing home doctor, who remains anonymous, administered a lethal injection to a 74-year-old dementia patient despite the fact that her will was “unclear […]
(The Christian Institute) — Heidi Crowter, a 23-year-old U.K. woman from Coventry, has been voicing her experience of life with Down syndrome and speaking out against disability screening. Heidi said that parents “are being told lies” about Down syndrome and she hopes that her example of life and faith will challenge the misconceptions. She is […]
(ABC News) — The second-largest, second-deadliest Ebola outbreak in history has spread to a major city. Butembo, a bustling city of almost a million people in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, is reporting an increasing number of cases of Ebola virus disease in the country’s current epidemic. There has been a “significant increase” in […]
(The Christian Institute) — A baby who had pioneering surgery on her spine while in the womb has been born healthy. Parents Georgia and Tyler discovered their daughter, Piper, had spina bifida—a gap in the spine resulting in paralysis—at the 20-week scan. It is hoped that the technique will reduce the number of abortions offered […]
(The Christian Institute) — A hospital in Ontario, Canada, is being criticized for advertising euthanasia in its urgent care waiting room. Advertisements for Medical Aid in Dying (MAiD) appear on a large television screen in the William Osler Health System hospital. The same [static] advert is found on the health system website. Campaigners have hit […]
(KIRO-TV) — Shilo Jama showed us the needle exchange he runs in Seattle’s University District. The supplies, including needles and naloxone, are not all that different from what he found when he visited underground supervised consumption sites in and around Seattle. Jama said his organization, the People’s Harm Reduction Alliance, has no role in running […]
(The Christian Institute) — A young mother has shared her anger at how keen doctors were to abort her baby when they believed he had Down syndrome. Jordan Squires, 22, said she and her husband Jonathan would love their child regardless of the disability. But she fears for others: “When you’ve been told your baby […]