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The Euthanasia Society of America was founded on January 16, 1938, to promote euthanasia. [1] It was co-founded by Charles Francis Potter and Ann Mitchell. [2] Alice Naumberg (mother of Ruth P. Smith) also helped found the group. [3] The group initially supported both voluntary and involuntary euthanasia. [4]
Final Exit Network, Inc. (FEN) is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit right to die advocacy group incorporated under Florida law. [1] It holds that mentally competent adults who suffer from a terminal illness, intractable pain, or irreversible physical (though not necessarily terminal) conditions have a right to voluntarily end their lives. [2]
The right to die is a concept based on the opinion that human beings are entitled to end their lives or undergo voluntary euthanasia.Possession of this right is often bestowed with the understanding that a person with a terminal illness, or in incurable pain has access to assisted suicide.
Euthanasia efforts were revived during the 1960s and 1970s, under the right-to-die rubric, physician assisted death in liberal bioethics, and through advance directives and do not resuscitate orders. Several major court cases advanced the legal rights of patients, or their guardians, to withdraw medical support with the expected outcome of death.
Care Not Killing was founded in January 2006 largely in reaction events at the time with the BBC reporting that Care Not Killing needed to take action to counter the pro-euthanasia lobby, which it said was now making a determined attempt to change the law to allow doctors to "kill their patients". [1] [7]
Priests for Life (PFL) is an anti-abortion organization based in Titusville, Florida. [1] PFL functions as a network to promote and coordinate anti-abortion activism, especially among Roman Catholic priests and laymen, with the primary strategic goal of ending abortion and euthanasia and to spread the message of the Evangelium vitae encyclical, written by Pope John Paul II.
The right-to-life movement or pro-life movement opposes abortion, assisted suicide, and euthanasia on moral grounds. It is closely related to the anti-abortion movement and anti-euthanasia movement. The difference is that while the anti-abortion focuses on abortion and anti-euthanasia movement focuses on euthanasia and assisted suicide, the ...
As applied to the euthanasia debate, the slippery slope argument claims that the acceptance of certain practices, such as physician-assisted suicide or voluntary euthanasia, will invariably lead to the acceptance or practice of concepts which are currently deemed unacceptable, such as non-voluntary or involuntary euthanasia.