The authors of the articles described cases of parents begging doctors for help, but they heard that the “protocol cannot be revoked or cancelled”. As a result, children died in front of them. An anesthesiologist was besides quoted, who asked for anonymity, admitted that the medical squad on his behalf issued in 1 of the Lesser Poland hospitals more than 30 "protocols of futile therapy" within 12 months.
Media articles stirred public opinion and made us begin to analyse and verify these reports in detail. At the same time, Ordo Iuris was approached by a doctor whose adult boy died due to the fact that he was not given the essential medical assistance after doctors gave him the “protocol of futile therapy”.
To verify media reports, we contacted doctors, paramedics, and medical experts.
Our analysis leads to the conclusion that 2 papers can be blamed for this. 1 of them is the position of the Polish Internist Society on dying patients who cannot decide for themselves. His publication has besides sparked many criticisms from representatives of the medical community who accuse him of incompatibility with applicable law and medical ethics. Changes are made quietly – as part of the medical guidelines, which most patients can only learn about erstwhile they refuse to treat themselves or their loved ones.
What raises the most doubts in the public debate about the position and which is part of the alleged protocol of futile therapy is the usage of inaccurate terminology and criteria to find who should be covered by the "protocol of futile therapy", thus making the paper seem to extend beyond the scope of the sick dying.
The situation is further aggravated by the changes introduced since 1 January to the Code of Medical Ethics, which powerfully prohibit the usage of "fame therapy". The erstwhile version of the paper allowed doctors freedom in this delicate issue without imposing specified a ban on them.
We must act rapidly and decisively in this delicate matter, but not subject to emotions and untested information. This issue must be examined in depth by the applicable authorities, and the medical community must make standards of conduct in border situations that will not make the hazard of condemning people who could inactive live.
Therefore, the lawyers of Ordo Iuris send the prosecutors a announcement of the anticipation of committing a crime on the basis of media reports of children who were to be denied rescue against the law due to the application of the "protocol of futile therapy" to them. Poles must be certain that erstwhile they go to the hospital, they will receive due medical care.
At the same time, we intervened in the Polish Internists Society, to which we addressed a letter calling for a change of the many controversial guidelines. On the another hand, the medical authority will be asked to reconstruct the previous, more liberal wording of the Code of Medical Ethics. In this way, doctors will be able to supply medical services to patients without fear of taking professional work for violating the Code of Medical Ethics.
In order to prevent Poland from repeating the script of many Western European countries, where the people incapable to argue the aged and the disabled are killed and to support the state with the “assisted killing” – we inform Poles about the scale of the threats associated with the implementation of eugenic practices. 25 March – on the Day of the Feast of Life and the 30th anniversary of the Encyclical Evangelium vitae by St. John Paul II – we published our technological monograph “The Revelation of Euthanasia: Philosophy, Culture, Medicine, Law”.
The publication was presented and discussed during a press conference organized together with the Catholic Information Agency, during which the voice – alongside the co-author of the monograph, manager of the Center for Medical Law and Bioethics Ordo Iuris mec. Katarzyna Gęsiak – was taken by Dr. Monika Zając from the Centre for Life and Family, the ethics and theology of Fr. It is worth noting that the event was besides connected with the presentation prepared by us – in connection with the unlawful pro-abortion guidelines of the Minister of wellness of Isabella Lestiny – the guide “How hospitals can defend themselves against the Guidelines of the Minister of wellness and the penalties of the NFZ” and the compendium “In the defence of Life” developed by the Centre of Life and Family. shortly we are besides planning to prepare a review of the Hungarian study Mathias Corvinus Collegium on euthanasia.
So wide and comprehensive expert activity Ordo Iuris is possible thanks to the fact that we are constantly monitoring the debate on euthanasia around the planet and we know what practices and arguments are utilized by promoters of "death civilization".
However, this would not be possible without the support of the people who fund our work.
I believe that helping our Donors and Friends will supply Polish patients with safety and the essential standard of care in hospitals and defend our Homeland from the implementation of the "civilization of death" agenda, which St. John Paul II respected. The defence of life from conception to natural death is the best possible way to carry out the will of St John Paul II, whose round, twentieth anniversary of death we celebrated in the past week.
Are we dealing with camouflaged euthanasia in Poland?
In our letter to the Society of Polish Internists, concerning the position of the Department of the Daremic Therapies at the Internistic Divisions, “Prevention of the Prevention of Infertility Therapy in Adult Patients Dying in Hospital” we draw attention to the crucial differences between “famility therapy” and “continuous therapy”.
We point out that, as defined in 2008 by the Polish Working Group on Ethical Problems of the End of Life, “resistent therapy” consists in applying medical procedures to an incurable patient in order to keep life functions that prolong his death, involving excessive suffering or a breach of dignity in the patient's feeling. This is not the same word as “medically futile therapy” which is operated by the Polish Internist Society in its position. Thus, we explain why the effort to replace the word “continuous therapy” established in Polish medical literature raises reasonable doubts.
In our position addressed to the Society of Polish Internists, we besides draw attention to the crucial change that entered the Code of Medical Ethics from 1 January 2025, which, until then, stated that "in terminal states, a doctor is not obliged to undertake and conduct resuscitation or persistent therapy and to apply emergency measures". After the changes, the Code explicitly prohibits doctors from utilizing ‘failure therapy’ which, from the position of doctors, does not lead to the patient being cured, but does not necessarily affect unacceptable suffering.
In our letter, we besides show that the protocol of conduct proposed in the TIP's position, which restricts "failure therapy", is an expression of a mechanistic approach to the patient, which may consequence in a simplification in the quality of medical care, as demonstrated by the example of the British paper Liverpool Care Pathway for the Dying Patient, which has caused a simplification in the level of medical care.
What does euthanasia in Europe look like in practice?
While remaining on the subject of life protection at its end, we take many measures to advance cognition of the real effects of legalising euthanasia. For this intent We have published a monograph “The Apparition of Euthanasia”, in which we widely describe its philosophical, cultural, medical and legal aspects.
In our monograph, we uncover what the practice of "scaring life" of patients in European countries truly looks like. When describing the legal conditions of assisted suicide in Switzerland, we show how “suicide tourism” developed there, which has resulted in a double increase in the number of Europeans going to Switzerland over the last 10 years. The financial benefits of this state of affairs are enjoyed by suicide aid organisations. Although Swiss law considers euthanasia understood as an action to shorten the life of an incurable patient at his request as illegal, The euthanasia manufacture is impunityless there, resulting from a circumstantial explanation of the rules that relieve the criminal work of the individual and the organisations assisting in suicide if their motives are not ‘selfish’.
In practice, organisations providing assistance in euthanasia by providing adequate chemical means receive a financial remuneration for their ‘services’, which is not interpreted as ‘self-serving’ aid and is not punished as a result. In the monograph, we quote the voice of Swiss doctors specialising in palliative medicine, who, in their opinion, believe organizations who benefit from helping suicide operate in an untransparent way.
The publication besides describes the practice of euthanasia in Belgium, where it was legalised as early as 2002, and in 2014 the anticipation of killing was extended to terminally sick children on the basis of the expected "low quality of life" which leads to utmost pathology of this wicked procedure. We pay attention to cases of euthanic murders of thirty-eight-year-old Tina Nys and sixty-four-year-old Godlieva de Troyer. In the case of the first woman, Asperger syndrome was the reason for euthanasia, and in the case of the second woman, depression. What's significant, The boy of a sixty-four-year-old was informed by the infirmary of her mother's euthanasia, only erstwhile it was necessary... to arrange her funeral. The man lodged a complaint in this case with the European Court of Human Rights, which acknowledged him right and ordered Belgium to modify the euthanasia law.
We besides describe another issues in which the European Court of Human Rights spoke about euthanasia. Among another things, we are discussing the case of beautiful v. UK, in which a 43-year-old, paralyzed from the neck down a female complained in 2001 about the British law then in force, which prohibited euthanasia. In 2002, the Court unanimously dismissed its action, stating that the applicant’s right to life cannot be ‘right to death’. In 2011, ETPC judges besides dismissed the complaint of a 58-year-old Swiss (Haas v. Switzerland) suffering from bipolar disorder, who wrote a letter to 170 psychiatrists asking for a prescription for a poisonous sodium pentobarbital to commit suicide. The man admitted openly that he was not curious in any therapy and that long ago he stopped taking neuroleptic drugs for his illness. no of the doctors who responded to his letter wanted to issue specified a prescription in blank (without examination and without treatment attempt), what the man considered to be a violation of his rights. The case of Lambert and others v. France brought to Strasbourg by the household of a man who was in a state of complete paralysis and minimal awareness as a consequence of a car accident. Despite these limitations, the patient spent quite a few time with his family, and sometimes even went on vacation with her. Despite the deficiency of grounds to believe that a man's condition was accompanied by physical suffering, his attending doctor ordered the patient to halt feeding and irrigation after respective years. The euthanic execution justified the alleged "irration of persistent therapy", in another words, the futility of therapy.
Where does euthanasia come from?
In the monograph we present sources of philosophical, ethical and socio-cultural transformations, which in any countries have allowed the legalization of euthanic killing of people. We point out that its moral basis is nihilism and hedonism, which lead to the failure of real meaning and intent of life for the falsely understood happiness sought in self-fulfillment and consumption.
We besides analyse the process of the dictionary change of the meaning of the word "eutanasia" and diagnose the changes that have taken place in Polish society in the field of euthanasia perception, showing that the biased questions asked in polling studies (the surveyers do not ask for euthanasia, but whether a doctor should apply the request of a terminally sick patient to give lethal measures) contribute to the misidentification of euthanasia by Poles with persistent therapy. We note that allowing euthanasia is higher in the group of younger respondents. Reflecting on the origin of this phenomenon, we draw attention to the crisis of authority in society and the individualisation of society, leading to the formation of a society of egoists.
In 1 of chapters of monographs, doctor of palliative medicine prof. Tomasz Dzierżanowski – based on its own long-term medical practice in the care of people dying – proves that people perceive illness, suffering and dying as unworthy erstwhile decent conditions are not taken care of. The prof. conducts a critical analysis of the Polish strategy of care for people who are dying, while presenting concrete proposals for changes that will let patients to be given the essential conditions to die in dignity.
Jerzy Kwasniewski Ordo Iuris:
P.S. We are truly very small from the fact that shocking examples from the West, where doctors refuse to rescue people towards the despair of their loved ones, can happen in Poland. We gotta do everything we can to make this happen. I believe that with the aid of people who argue the civilization of death, we will jointly halt her march in our homeland.
