Doctors in San Francisco are refusing to intervene in a suicide by starvation by an suspected murderer–even though he has been declared mentally incompetent. From the “Matier and Ross” feature in the SF Chronicle:
In the News
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September 28th, 2011
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September 28th, 2011A brain-damaged, minimally-conscious woman should not be allowed to die, a High Court judge has ruled.
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September 28th, 2011A PRO choice campaigner has spoken out in support of an Eastbourne pensioner’s decision to travel to a Swiss suicide clinic to end her life.
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September 28th, 2011(Reuters) - A brain-damaged, minimally conscious woman should not be allowed to die, a High Court judge said in a landmark ruling on Wednesday.
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September 28th, 2011In 2010, the Iranian regime carried out 546 executions, more than at any other time during the preceding decade, and representing an increase of around 25 per cent on the previous year. Increasingly, execution is becoming Tehran's favored method for dealing with anyone it deems an opponent -- like Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani, an Iranian pastor who has refused to recant his Christian faith.
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September 28th, 2011LONDON — Foreign Secretary William Hague on Wednesday said he "deplored" reports that Iran was about to execute a pastor after he refused to give up Christianity and return to Islam.
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September 28th, 2011THEY are at it again in Lancashire, the county where the police interviewed a Christian couple for an hour and a quarter when they had the temerity to ask the council if they could distribute pro-marriage leaflets in register offices.
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September 27th, 2011UNITED NATIONS - Christians are the number one target of persecution around the world, the Vatican's foreign minister told the UN summit on Tuesday.
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September 27th, 2011Second@s Plus, a lobby group in Switzerland consisting of mostly Muslim immigrants, demand that Switzerland removes the cross from the nation’s flag.
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September 27th, 2011When you mention to a Muslim or Hindu that the year is 2011, do you ever feel a twinge of guilt about your closet religious chauvinism? When you watch the old Raquel Welch film One Million Years BC, do you blushingly avert your gaze from the title sequence? When you catch your children reading 2000AD, do you furiously insist that they read something less offensive, such as The Beano or The Dandy, instead?