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The killing of Vincent Lambert: What you need to know

One week ago, Vincent Lambert’s doctors in Reims, France placed him under heavy sedation and began the gruesome process of starving and dehydrating him to death. Vincent was disabled in a motorcycle accident over ten years ago and since then has had to receive food and water through a feeding tube. On June 28, Vincent’s wife received permission from France’s highest civil court to make her…

French court orders disabled man to be starved to death

“The quality of a civilization is measured by the respect it has for the weakest.” (Protest for Vincent Lambert, May 20, 2019) Source: FranceInfo

France‘s highest civil court today ruled that Vincent Lambert must die by starvation and dehydration. Vincent was nearly made dead last month, but at the eleventh hour, an appellate court ordered that his food and water be restored. Today’s order…

Woman held in hospice facility against her will

Marian Leonard before (left) and after (right) she was forced into hospice care. Her eye is now swollen shut and she is heavily sedated.

BIRMINGHAM, AL:Life Legal is working with the daughter of an elderly Alabama woman who has been forced into hospice care against her will. Nancy Scott contacted us in despair after she learned that her elderly mother, Marion Leonard, was transferred to…

Life Legal uncovers shocking facts about assisted suicide law

Life Legal attorneys have uncovered shocking facts about how California’s assisted suicide law is being implemented and who is doing the “assisting.”

In the course of challenging California’s End of Life Option Act, we have learned that a handful of doctors have written most of the prescriptions for lethal drugs since the law went into effect.

One of those doctors is Lonny Shavelson, a former…

Judge sentences baby Alfie to death . . . but he LIVES . . . now what?

Alder Hey Hospital in Liverpool, England just issued a statement saying it intends to continue with its “end of life plan” for 23-month-old Alfie Evans. The hospital recently won another legal victory against the toddler when Justice Anthony Hayden of the High Court of England confirmed his assessment that it was in Alfie’s “best interest” to die. With “dignity,” of course. Alfie Evans with his…

22 HOURS BREATHING UNASSISTED..Alfie yesterday before vent removed..look how aware and alert he is.. what many of us have seen with beautiful Alfie and the reason we support his amazing mummy and daddy #savealfieevans #alfiesfight #istandwithalfieevans pic.twitter.com/PYDHLoAVm5 — #ALFIESARMY (@Alfiesarmy16) April 24, 2018 Click on the link above to watch a video of Alfie Evans just before the…

Stop euthanasia and restore human dignity!

George Weigel recently published an article about Canada’s “vulnerability to the culture of death.” Weigel recounted the horrifying story of a 63-year-old man with bladder cancer who was admitted to the hospital with a relatively minor infection. Instead of treating the man, the hospital determined that it would be more humane to allow him to die from the infection than from the cancer, for which…