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September 2026

September 21, 2026

Monday Miscellany, 9/21/26

More Americans now support the Palestinains than support Israel. U.K. parliament votes down assisted suicide. ...

January 2025

January 30, 2025

Hating the Vulnerable

The classics scholar Nadya Williams says that behind the push for abortion and euthanasia is...

July 2024

July 05, 2024

Aborting the Elderly vs. Treasuring Them

Our society is anti-life both at its very beginning and at its very end. "Euthanasia,"...

June 2024

June 07, 2024

Teaching People That Their Lives Have No Value

Even as societies have become careful not to "trigger" the suicidal but to encourage them...

November 2023

November 20, 2023

Monday Miscellany, 11/20/23

Finnish Lutherans acquitted--again; the two most vocal Christians pull out of the presidential race; and...

May 2023

May 22, 2023

Monday Miscellany 5/22/23

A congressional staffer embracing Communism (including the brutal bits); advocating gun control while being soft...

April 2023

April 24, 2023

Monday Miscellany, 4/24/23

Shoplifter catch-and-release, Trump goes easy on Disney, and euthanasia moves beyond "choice."

March 2023

March 07, 2023

Euthanasia for All

If there is a "right to die," then that right must extend to everyone. Not...

November 2022

November 21, 2022

Death on Demand

Sometimes the slippery slope argument is no fallacy. Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide laws do keep...

August 2022

August 17, 2022

An Overwhelming Christian, Pro-Life Novel

You have got to read Edna Hong's novel "Bright Valley of Love," a true story...

May 2022

May 12, 2022

Canada Is Euthanizing the Poor

Legalized euthanasia in Canada was originally for the terminally ill, but it has since been...

July 2018

July 02, 2018

Who Needs Palliative Care When We Have Euthanasia?

"Palliative care" refers to medical treatments that ease pain and suffering, particularly for the terminally...

June 2018

June 19, 2018

A Medical Specialty in Infanticide?

The American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology has applied to the American Board of Medical...

July 2017

July 03, 2017

Euthanasia for “a completed life”

First euthanasia was supposed to be for people who were terminally ill. Then for those...

May 2017

May 11, 2017

Abortionist on “euthanizing” the baby

An abortion clinic in Albuquerque will abort a baby at any stage through all nine...

February 2017

February 21, 2017

Starving patients to death

Euthanasia laws have a way of expanding. Once a society accepts the concept that sick...

February 01, 2017

Trump’s Supreme Court nominee

President Donald Trump has nominated Colorado appeals court Judge Neil Gorsuch to fill the Supreme...

December 2016

December 01, 2016

Euthanizing alcoholics

A man in the Netherlands was euthanized because he was an alcoholic. The story excerpted...

November 2016

November 15, 2016

Euthanizing the mentally ill

Assisted Suicide laws usually have a provision specifying that a person must be "mentally competent"...

November 02, 2016

Our nation’s capital votes for physician-assisted suicide

The City Council of the District of Columbia has passed a measure to allow physician-assisted...

May 2016

May 16, 2016

And now, euthanasia for obsessive cleaning

The Netherlands has extended its legalized euthanasia program to include people with mental and emotional...

March 2016

March 11, 2016

All Canada doctors & nurses must kill patients on demand

Canada is implementing its new euthanasia policy with new guidelines that will require doctors and...

September 2015

September 30, 2015

Christian, Christian-influenced, and anti-Christian

Ross Douthat, a Catholic columnist for the New York Times, has written about the difference...

August 2015

August 21, 2015

Euthanasia keeps expanding

The Netherlands and Belgium legalized euthanasia a number of years ago. Originally, the idea was...

July 2015

July 02, 2015

Euthansia for the depressed

Belgium, having legalized euthanasia, keeps extending it to more and more people: to terminally ill...

October 2014

October 23, 2014

Two solutions for the terminally ill

Here are two heart-breaking stories of women with terminal brain cancer. The first is moving...

September 2014

September 24, 2014

Suicide tourism

Tourism is booming in Switzerland, but many visitors aren't coming back home. They are suicide...

September 17, 2014

Belgium will give a sex offender euthanasia

Belgium has abolished capital punishment, but it has legalized euthanasia, even for small children. Now...

November 2013

November 04, 2013

Euthanasia for kids

Belgium is considering a law that would extend "the right to euthanasia" to children, so...

March 2013

March 05, 2013

Nazi “killing centers” and “care centers”

There were far more Nazi "camps" than anyone had realized, according to recent research, some...