Sentences with phrase «euthanasia killings of»

Death statistics bear out medical views: euthanasia killings of the mentally ill have sharply increased.

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When euthanasia critics accuse him of killing people, he said he always responds, «Well, I only kill my friends.»

Critics of Roe v. Wade have long contended that the principles used to justify abortion would soon or late be used to justify other forms of medical killing such as voluntary and, eventually, involuntary euthanasia.

The position on abortion and euthanasia inexorably follows; justice requires the protection of both the unborn and those who are likely to become the objects of mercy killing.

The logical extension of applying economic value to human life is euthanasia - killing nonproductive members of society.

Singer was more responsible than anyone else for making the term «speciesism» known, beginning in 1975 with his highly influential book Animal Liberation and continuing with his widely professed proposal that so - called human non-persons can be killed (infanticide or non-voluntary euthanasia) because of their «lower» moral status.

None of the essays argues against assisted suicide and euthanasia simply because killing is wrong.

The euthanasia item describes a situation in which the object of the «mercy» and the family request the act of killing.

These people would also be opposed to infanticide, euthanasia and mercy killing, especially when someone other than the target of the «mercy» is making the decision.

The head of a controversial assisted - suicide group in Switzerland says he will seek legal permission to help a Canadian woman and other healthy people like her kill themselves, raising startling new issues in the emotional debate over euthanasia.

Euthanasia is morally wrong because it involves the arbitrary killing of innocent life.

Describing euthanasia as «this ghastly doctrine» which «tries to justify the murder of blameless men and would seek to give legal sanction to the forcible killing of invalids, cripples, the incurable and the incapacitated» he went on:

The term «mercy killing» is often used in place of «euthanasia» to emphasize that such an act is directly intended as an act of kindness to end suffering.

Drawing on examples of what is happening in the Netherlands, where the practice of PAS and euthanasia (voluntary and involuntary) has increased even though not formally legal, Manning, Larson and Amundsen suggest that the policy and practice of euthanasia / PAS would weaken the general prohibition against killing.

In wanting to license physicians to kill, McKhann and other advocates of euthanasia / PAS are calling into question the expectation that physicians will be healers committed to preventing, diagnosing and treating diseases and to promoting wholeness.

But here's a clue: almost NOBODY believes that killing is absolutely wrong, as some subset or other of the standard exceptions, ie acts during times of war, executions for at least some crimes, the unborn, euthanasia, even self defense are credited by almost everyone.

The book is a truly chilling read, not only because of its crass advocacy for killing the defenseless, but also because of the ways in which it mirrors many concepts propounded by bioethicists and euthanasia advocates today.

I predict that as atheism rises, so too will infanticide, euthanasia, «mercy killing», and a degredation of human rights

The Nazi doctrine of Lebensunwertes Leben (life that is not worthy of life) had the widest possible applications, from euthanasia to the elimination of the handicapped to the mass killings at Auschwitz.

Canada's pending legislation on euthanasia and assisted suicide raises a question: What shall we call people who are legally involved in the destruction of human life — particularly those who do the actual killing?

Making plain the morally infectious nature of euthanasia, large percentages reported that they could «conceive of» killing patients who were not terminally ill or, in some cases, who were not even physically ailing.

Yet, when condemning the killing of sick and disabled people, the Holy Father also denounces «other more furtive, but no less serious and real, forms of euthanasia.»

Some opponents of euthanasia espouse the domino theory: if we permit euthanasia, we'll soon be killing retarded people, then the elderly, and then people whose ears are too large.

This is an in - depth and far - reaching conversation that includes dialogue about euthanasia, blood transfusions, medical experimentation without consent, research fraud, vaccines as biological weapons, autism, the rape of autistic children, the rape of medical patients — especially during hospital birth, birth trauma, trauma - based mind - control, circumcision, satanism / luciferianism, psychopathy, Agenda 21, and the deliberate attempt to kill and / or render infertile and / or genetically mutate the human race.

To be included on the list, candidates must «uphold strong traditional family values and prudent fiscal practice, oppose the killing of preborn children for sex selection, convenience and birth control, and oppose assisted suicide and euthanasia.»

Study participants were then asked to rate how much they agree with a series of statements about killing animals, such as, «It is often necessary to control for animal overpopulation through different means, such as hunting or euthanasia,» or, «An experiment should never cause the killing of animals.»

Partly as a legacy of the way the abortion decisions came about in this country and the degree to which abortion is important in American politics, killing and destruction - of - life questions have come to be regarded as the bioethical questions, whether it's euthanasia at the end of life or abortion and embryo destruction at the beginning.

Gorsuch also authored a 2006 book, The Future of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia, in which he built a legal and moral argument that intentional killing is always wrong because human life is intrinsically valuable.

His new series, Mary Kills People, a black comedy about the controversial practice of euthanasia, is something very different.

Additionally, a 1981 Oklahoma State Court decision exempted cities with populations under 10,000 from the state euthanasia law, essentially upholding the right of these cities to use shooting as a method of killing unwanted dogs, deeming it to be humane.

Petaluma Pet Pals rescues dogs, puppies, cats and kittens at risk of euthanasia at high kill shelters in the Bay Area and beyond.

We also try to help minimize euthanasia rate of healthy, adoptable dogs by rescuing them from high kill facilities.

«If people knew they were killing animals this way because they wanted to make budget cuts, I'm sure there would be a public outcry to spend the money for a more humane method of euthanasia.»

Just passing some fantasy ordinance banning euthanasia just ignores the overpopulation reality of the situation, something every bit as pretentiously bogus as calling yourself a no - kill shelter.

This will be an even bigger problem especially starting next February,» Chiang predicted to ANIMALS 24 - 7, «when all of the shelters in Taiwan are to become no - kill shelters due to the new zero - euthanasia policy that passed the legislature last year.

I will never forget when we first spoke and she had not yet been pulled out of the high kill shelter that used a gas chamber as their form of Euthanasia and you told me that she was sick and emaciated.

«Implicit to the no - kill philosophy is the reality of exceptional situations in which euthanasia is the most humane alternative available.

While it is true that euthanasia is a fact of animal pound and shelter operations in Victoria, the question this audit is answering is not whether euthanasia is ever appropriate, but whether the LDH kill rate is higher than acceptable, measured against similar organisations.

If all are in agreement that the dog is, in human terms, «suicidal», and is going to kill itself, then euthanasia is justified to prevent the suffering of the animal.

The county decided earlier this year to change its euthanasia method after controversy erupted over the outdated air chamber used by the shelter to kill hundreds of unwanted pets picked up every year throughout the county.

And let's start by banning the word «euthanasia» when it's used in place of the word killing, of an otherwise healthy and adoptable animal.

Felines & Canines Rescue Center is dedicated to ending the euthanasia of adoptable dogs and cats in Northern Alabama by providing a safe, loving, no - kill animal shelter that focuses on the transportation of excess animals to fellow no - kill rescue partners in Illinois and surrounding Northern states.

Killing of this sort can be classified as either euthanasia, undertaken as a last resort and solely to serve the interest of an irremediably suffering animal, or non-euthanasia, undertaken to serve a wider spectrum of interests.

Regardless, medical - justified killing at every shelter deserves to be continually regulated, audited, and reevaluated with the goal of permitting only actual euthanasia in the context of the current state of the art of care.

1) As a no - kill shelter, if one of our dogs is repeatedly passed over by the public, we do not automatically consider that dog unworthy or unadoptable and do not «remedy» the situation by opening up his held space through euthanasia.

Accordingly, the No Kill Advocacy Center has set the goal to «end the killing of animals who are not irremediably suffering and thus return the term «euthanasia» to its dictionary definition.»

Ever since Elmer and Ammon Zimmerman, owners of E&A and A&J Kennels in Berks County, shot and killed their 80 dogs sometime between Thursday, July 24 and Tuesday, July 29, questions about the law that makes this cowardly and inhumane act «legal» have surfaced. Many have inquired as to why licensed kennel operators are permitted to legally shoot their breeding stock, believing that private citizens were prohibited from this same gruesome form of euthanasia, and if you think so too, think again.

Today's society has a heightened awareness of the staggering euthanasia rates occurring in animal shelters, and there is more determination than ever to reduce the killing of healthy animals.

Under HB 27 a veterinarian, certified euthanasia technician or a probationary CET working under the supervision of a veterinarian, has complete discretion to choose the method of killing: CO gas chambers or lethal injection.  A log must be kept of the method of killing used for each animal, the identity of the person performing the killing and the reason for the particular method. Â

VIETNAM: These «euthanasia» sessions are regular occurrences, where unwanted greyhounds — including young and healthy dogs — are killed by the dozens in direct, distressing view of their friends.