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Friday, March 1, 2013

Anti-Euthanasia Activists Launch European Coalition in ‘Historic’ Meeting in Rome




ROME, February 19, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A group of nearly 20 leading anti-euthanasia activists representing 11 countries gathered today in Rome to launch a pan-European coalition. 

Their goal? To promote “care, not killing,” said Alex Schadenberg, the Chairman of Euthanasia Prevention Coalition International, the organizer of the meeting, who described the event as “historic.”

A survey of the situation in Europe suggests that the creation of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition (EPC) Europe could not come a minute too soon.

Euthanasia is already deeply entrenched and expanding in several European countries, and with aging populations across the continent, more and more are showing signs of being swayed by the rhetoric of the euthanasia movement. Currently pressure campaigns to legalize the practice are ongoing in the UK and France.

During the wide-ranging discussions at today's meeting, one point repeatedly cropped up: the need to work together and to unite activists from a wide variety of ideological and political backgrounds.

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