Search Results: Asia and Oceania

Canada MAID Mental Illness Expansion Delayed

By Marisa Cantu / February 9, 2024 /

…in expanding euthanasia (referred to in Canada as “MAID”, which stands for “medical assistance in dying”), Canada already has staggeringly high rates of euthanasia. In 2022, Canadian euthanasia increased by…

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Demography and Euthanasia

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet / March 13, 2023 /

…the sake of the “common good.” As anti-euthanasia activist James Schadenberg wrote recently, Dr. Narita’s predictions of mandatory euthanasia are shocking but not without historic precedence. Societies have never been…

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The Hippocratic Oath: A Pledge to Respect Life

By Sofia Infante / April 21, 2021 /
happy elderly lady in a plaid jacket

…Problem of Euthanasia Why Euthanasia Is Wrong—from a Secular Viewpoint Church Teachings on Euthanasia Physician-Assisted Suicide for Terminally Ill Patients   Endnote [1] Psychiatry and Ethics. Introduction by Margaret Mead….

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Is Euthanasia a Slippery Slope?

By Susan Ciancio / April 24, 2019 /
elderly woman in a coma

…stage, involuntary euthanasia (killing but without consent).   Euthanasia and the Culture of Death St. John Paul II taught about the culture of death in Evangelium Vitae when he said:…

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The Canada Euthanasia Law (MAID) Kills Human Dignity

By Marisa Cantu / December 18, 2023 /

Canada’s euthanasia laws are an affront to human dignity. Euthanasia, also referred to as Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) in Canada, first began after Carter v. Canada in February 2015….

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Ligaya Acosta, PhD

By HLI Staff / January 30, 2013 /

Dr. Ligaya Acosta is the regional director of Asia and Oceania at Human Life International. She worked as a loyal government employee for the Philippine Department of Health (DOH) for…

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Ordinary and Extraordinary Means of Treatment

By Brian Clowes, PhD / September 2, 2020 /
patient in hospital bed, sick

…extraordinary means begin. Pro-euthanasia groups have made a lot of progress by lodging in the public mind the specter of power-hungry doctors “playing God” and squeezing every last agonizing second…

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Scapegoating of the Elderly

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet / September 4, 2023 /
Scapegoating of the Elderly: types of euthanasia

…treat old age “as a negation and superfluous stage of life.” Although the statement does not specifically name euthanasia or assisted suicide, it makes unmistakable reference to this looming (and,…

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True Story I – The Philippines: Preserving a Culture of Life

By HLI Staff / July 2, 2013 /
filipinos

…HLI Philippines Director Dr. Rene Bullecer and Dr. Ligaya Acosta, a former pro-abortion health minister in the Philippines who is now HLI’s Regional Director for Asia and Oceania. “The Philippines:…

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Remembering Monsignor Ignacio Barreiro a Year After His Death

By HLI Staff / April 13, 2017 /

…in our fight in favor of the right to life. Dr. Ligaya Acosta, HLI’s Regional Director for Asia and Oceania I will personally miss Monsignor Barreiro – a highly intellectual,…

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