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Bishops of England and Wales distressed at DNR orders for persons with learning disabilities

February 17, 2021

"It is wholly unacceptable and immoral to suggest that the challenges which some people with learning disabilities face with communicating symptoms should make them candidates for a DNACPR order," Bishop Moth said. ""There should be no discrimination of this kind in our health service."

As LA County limits emergency care amid COVID surge, ethicists weigh in

January 06, 2021

Washington D.C., Jan 6, 2021 / 12:25 am MT (CNA).- Los Angeles County has announced it is limiting non-COVID emergency care, due to hospitals having reached a “point of crisis” during the pandemic, promoting ethicists to discuss whether the act is justified. On Monday, the Emergency Medical Services Agency for Los Angeles County issued two

BMA survey shows shifting ideas on assisted suicide

October 08, 2020

59 per cent of those responding said they support changing the law to allow terminally ill and incurably suffering adults the option of a legal assisted death.

Abortion Act at 50: The Bill that wiped out millions

October 26, 2017

Only 29 MPs foresaw that the Abortion Act would create a deadly, lucrative new industry

As the Charlie Gard case shows, good medicine requires doctors who communicate

April 14, 2017

It is simply not enough for medical professionals to claim they know best. They must take the trouble to talk properly to parents

Need for Catholic health care has never been greater, says cardinal

February 16, 2017

Cardinal Raymond Burke says it's a 'beacon of light' in a society confused about fundamental truths