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Selective Killing Fields: POLST in Action

“In my practice, while I steadfastly refuse to write a prescription with lethal intent or otherwise help the patient commit suicide, I can share with the patient information that he or she already has the ability to exert control over the time [of] death.

Death and Catholic Church Teaching

Since 1968, vital organs, necessary for life, have been removed from patients for transplantation. Since then, this has been morally justified by the claim that the donor is “brain dead” or has suffered “cardiac death.”

Planned Parenthood Funding and Catholic Bishops

A different sort of mathematical problem emerges from the title of this piece. What is the common denominator between the nationwide, unified pro-life efforts to defund Planned Parenthood and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB)? The answer is that no such common denominator exists.

Abby Johnson: A Target Among Her Friends?

Recently a controversy exploded as a result of a comment that Abby Johnson made in which she alluded to the fact that certain exceptions—rape, incest and life of the mother—represented a very small percentage of overall abortions.