http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/choosedeath/ en-us Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:25:10 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1993402/posts Teenagers should be given the right to medically assisted suicide and the parents of terminally ill younger children should be able to choose euthanasia under proposals from members of Belgium's coalition government. The plans to extend rules allowing doctors to perform euthanasia on terminally ill people suffering "constant and unbearable physical or psychological pain" comes amid heated Belgian debate on the issue. Under existing Belgian laws, in place since 2002, patients, other than newborn babies, must be over 18 to qualify for assisted suicide, a situation that Bart Tommelein, leader of Belgium Liberals, wants changed. Mr Tommelein, whose party is... telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1993402/posts#comment Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:25:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1601405/posts Zogby Poll Reveals: Abortion Tough Issue for Hillary Clinton & '06 Congressional Democrats LOS ANGELES, March 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Federal candidates who make abortion rights an important part of their election platform this year and in 2008 may find themselves swimming against the current of American political thinking, a new Zogby Interactive survey shows. The survey, commissioned by Associated Television News and The O'Leary Report, included 30,117 respondents in the 48 contiguous states, and was conducted from March 10-14, 2006. It carries a margin of error of +/- 0.6 percentage points. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20030425/ATNLOGO ) The poll included 20 questions on... PRN Newswire Press Release http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1601405/posts#comment Thu, 23 Mar 2006 04:38:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1247591/posts "I'm not going to require a 16- or 17-year-old kid who's been raped by her father and who's pregnant to notify her father. So you've got to have a judicial intervention. And because they didn't have a judicial intervention where she could go somewhere to get help I voted against it. It's never quite as simple as the president wants you to believe." http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1247591/posts#comment Sun, 17 Oct 2004 04:07:17 GMT