Dr Peter Saunders - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Mon, 06 May 2013 05:01:28 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Dr Peter Saunders - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Bioethicists see infanticide as morally acceptable https://cathnews.co.nz/2013/05/07/bioethicists-see-infanticide-as-morally-acceptable/ Mon, 06 May 2013 19:02:57 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=43751 Several prominent bioethicists have come out in favour of infanticide in a leading medical journal. A special issue of the Journal of Medical Ethics contains 31 commentaries on infanticide from a range of ethicists, some arguing it can be a moral action; others maintaining that even suggesting it is a vile stain on academic integrity. Read more

Bioethicists see infanticide as morally acceptable... Read more]]> Several prominent bioethicists have come out in favour of infanticide in a leading medical journal.

A special issue of the Journal of Medical Ethics contains 31 commentaries on infanticide from a range of ethicists, some arguing it can be a moral action; others maintaining that even suggesting it is a vile stain on academic integrity.

Commenting on the argument that infanticide is morally no different from abortion, Christian blogger Dr Peter Saunders says "we can draw one of two conclusions from that — either we should embrace infanticide or stop doing abortions".

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Bioethicists see infanticide as morally acceptable]]> 43751 Belgium becomes ‘world leader' in euthanasia https://cathnews.co.nz/2013/04/12/belgium-becomes-world-leader-in-euthanasia/ Thu, 11 Apr 2013 19:02:35 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=42684 A New Zealand doctor now based in Britain has blown the whistle on Belgium's euthanasia explosion — an increase of 4620 per cent in 10 years. Dr Peter Saunders, now chief executive officer of the Christian Medical Fellowship, said the number of euthanasia cases increased from 24 to 1133 in the 10 years to 2011. Read more

Belgium becomes ‘world leader' in euthanasia... Read more]]> A New Zealand doctor now based in Britain has blown the whistle on Belgium's euthanasia explosion — an increase of 4620 per cent in 10 years.

Dr Peter Saunders, now chief executive officer of the Christian Medical Fellowship, said the number of euthanasia cases increased from 24 to 1133 in the 10 years to 2011.

He said Belgium has eclipsed the Netherlands, the American state of Oregon and Switzerland "in the race to become the ‘world leader'".

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