Attorneys in Right-To-Die Case Cite Pope
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Attorneys for the parents of a woman at the center of a right-to-die case argued Thursday she would have been profoundly affected by new Catholic teachings on end-of-life issues.
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VATICAN CITY Oct. 3, 2004 - Pope John Paul II on Sunday honored two figures linked to controversy, beatifying a German mystic whose violent visions of Christ&#39;s suffering helped inspire Mel Gibson&#39;s &quot;The
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Florida's Supreme Court heard arguments in the right-to-die case of a severely brain-damaged woman whose feeding tube was removed but later reinserted after state Governor Jeb Bush intervened.
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In 2001, the Netherlands became the first (only?) country in the west to permit "mercy killings". The law only allows such killings in very particular circumstances - a doctor can terminate the life of a person who was in great pain and had no hope of recovery. In addition, the law requires the informed consent of the patient.   A hospital in the Netherlands has asked to dispense with that annoying part about consent - and the equally annoying part about pain.
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Pope John Paul's age and the  debilitating effect of Parkinson's disease are the main factors  influencing his health and make him more vulnerable to  infections and breathing problems, medical experts said.
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WASHINGTON - Seeking to void the nation&#39;s only right-to-die law, outgoing Attorney General John Ashcroft asked the Supreme Court yesterday to give federal agents the authority to punish Oregon doctors who help their dying patients end their lives.
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Pope John Paul branded euthanasia a distortion of medical ethics on Friday, saying doctors could not decide "who can live and who must die."
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A lawyer for a condemned prisoner asserted that there is an unacceptable risk of agony in Kentuckyâs procedure.
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The emergency room doctor who treated Pope John Paul II's breathing crisis said in comments published Wednesday that the pontiff made a swifter-than-expected recovery and is generally in good health.
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Pope Benedict XVI on Thursday defended the Vatican's right to speak out on bioethics, including its opposition to artificial procreation methods and embryonic stem cell research.
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A controversial article by a prominent Italian doctor asserts as much, eliciting a strenuous rebuttal from the Vatican, which opposes euthanasia.
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A lawyer for a condemned prisoner asserted that there is an unacceptable risk of agony in Kentuckyâs procedure, but justices were skeptical.
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In interviews, many experts generally supported actions by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the case of Andrew Speaker, the traveling lawyer who was diagnosed with tuberculosis.
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The Church's opposition to gay marriage is "non-negotiable" and Catholic politicians have a moral duty to oppose it, as well as laws on abortion and euthanasia, Pope Benedict said in a document issued on Tuesday.
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LANSING, Mich. -- An attorney for Jack Kevorkian asked the state parole board Monday to recommend that the assisted suicide advocate be released from prison for health reasons.
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People who say they were sexually  abused by priests could receive more than $1.5 billion in  damages from The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles --  more than any other U.S. diocese has paid, an attorney for more  than 100 alleged victims said on Sunday.
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A study of doctor-assisted suicide in the Netherlands and Oregon counters the argument that making it legal may lead to more of these deaths among vulnerable groups like the disabled, although it did find some evidence for this among people with AIDS.