Washington State Democrat Jay Inslee brought an enlarged photo of the bald eagle to the House floor. What is a fish without a river What is a bird without a tree to nest in, ... This isn't modernization of the act. It's euthanasia of the act.
Quotes about euthanasia (16 Quotes)
They asked me what I thought about euthanasia. I said I'm more concerned about the adults.
Human life has dignity at every age the taking of innocent human life is always wrong. I believe our nation at every level of government must reject any scheme to permit or promote assisted suicide and euthanasia. We must encourage new efforts to assist p
Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia.
Once you've transformed euthanasia into a medical treatment, there's no logical way you can say that it should not be available to children. People who support euthanasia should do so with their eyes open. It will eventually be available to everyone.
After killing off a number of plants inadvertently, it may be hard to face horticultural euthanasia. ... But the misfortune of these mistakes goes beyond a small blot on your garden. The sad relics are the lessons you are refusing to learn. ... After four or five years you have to make an assessment of your selections and stop nursing along specimens that long for permanent quiet peace. You will be amazed what a lift it will give to your whole garden to be rid of these ghosts.
We have received a dog with serious eye problems and a skin disease in hopeless stage. The person who brought it here demanded we cure it for free and refused the idea of euthanasia to end its pain.
Euthanasia, of course, is the next round of that discussion, ... It's a lot more difficult because with euthanasia, the life wants to be taken. So you can't say, 'Poor fetus, nobody asked the fetus.' It's, 'Poor old guy, somebody asked him and he said, pl
The guys out there are the best there we've got. But they have to make the hardest decision in the world now Whether it's safe to move it or take the most humane option, which is euthanasia.
In legal parlance, that is called 'the rational person test,' ... That's where somebody else says, 'Even though we have no idea what this person would want in this circumstance in which they cannot themselves tell us what they want, a 'rational' person -- meaning, myself -- in that circumstance would want to die.' So you move very quickly from so-called voluntary euthanasia to involuntary euthanasia. These legal and medical developments are not simply hypothetical They're in the courts right now.
We are trapping, neutering and releasing them. We want to reduce the number of feral cats on campus in a more ethical way than euthanasia.
The way people in the United States execute human beings would not pass muster for euthanasia of animals.
I'm sorry to see that again we are turning to the courts for decisions that concern ethics. I think theologians and ethicists would better guide us in such matters, ... If my memory serves me well, more than a decade ago The Episcopal Church said euthanasia or the intentional shortening of an individual's life, by lethal doses of drugs or otherwise, was not acceptable.
The autonomy argument has been widely used, very effectively used as one of the key reasons for the success of Pro-choice in North America. Its political success has been its use of the autonomy card, which is very much in keeping with American culture and with our generation in particular. Getting into the euthanasia debate, the same arguments hit you in the face. This isn't a question of autonomy it's a question about what human life is.
Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia.
A Catholic would be guilty of formal cooperation in evil, and so unworthy to present himself for holy Communion, if he were to deliberately vote for a candidate precisely because of the candidate'spermissive stand on abortion andor euthanasia. When a Catholic does not share a candidate's stand in favor of abortion andor euthanasia, but votes for that candidate for other reasons, it is considered remote material cooperation, which can be permitted in the presence of proportionate reasons.