What You Need to Know, Fast Facts on Assisted Suicide
Assisted Suicide/Euthanasia
Euthanasia is the direct killing of a person, usually by injecting a lethal substance.
Euthanasia is legal in the Netherlands with or without the consent of the patient. Guidelines have been adopted to allow the killing of newborns with disabilities. Euthanasia is legal in Belgium and Luxembourg.
Assisted suicide involves one person providing the means and instructions to help another person commit suicide.
Most states have laws which prohibit assisted suicide.
Assisted suicide is legal in the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. It is not legal but widely practiced in Switzerland which attracts people from all over the world to be assisted with suicide.
Illegal drugs from Mexico are taken to Australia and New Zealand to be used for suicide. People are taught how to make their own suicide pills.
Allowing people who are not dying to die of starvation and dehydration by withholding or withdrawing food and fluids is legal in all 50 states.
Human embryonic stem cells are only obtained by killing the human embryo. Embryonic stem cell research is opposed because a human life must be destroyed.
Because embryonic stem cells grow uncontrollably they are considered to be dangerous to a patient.
Scientists in Madison, WI and Japan recently programmed ordinary human skin cells into becoming cells which act like embryonic stem cells. There is no loss of human life using this process.
Adult stem cells are found virtually anywhere on a person’s body. Adult stem cell research is universally supported because no one has to be killed to retrieve the cells.
Adult stem cells are also found in cord blood discarded after a baby’s birth and in amniotic fluid surrounding the baby in the womb.
There are 73 diseases and conditions which have been successfully treated using adult stem cells in human persons.
