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Canada backs off on euthanasia for mental illness, but targets people with dementia.

Canada has indefinitely suspended plans to legalize euthanasia for mental illness, which was scheduled to begin in 2027. However, the government has not ruled out future legislation that could permanently ban euthanasia for mental illness, and the suspension period remains undefined.

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Canada Won’t Allow Euthanasia Solely for Mental Illness, But Will for Dementia

Editorial note: The terms euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide are often used interchangeably and will be in this article. Euthanasia refers to a healthcare worker intentionally and directly administering drugs to kill a patient.

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Three AGs are Suing to Stop Mail-Order Abortions

Three state attorneys general just announced they are challenging blue state shield laws facilitating illegal abortion drug shipments. But they’re not just taking their case to the Supreme Court, they’re also seeking damages from those smuggling unlawful pills that harm women and the unborn into their states.

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Tom Olohan|LifeNews.com|

Canada: Euthanasia will not be legal on the basis of mental illness alone

Canada will prevent the expansion of its assisted suicide and euthanasia law that would have permitted individuals to end their lives solely on the basis of having a mental illness, according to Canada’s Justice Minister, Sean Fraser. While Canada legislated in March 2021 to enable assisted suicide and euthanasia for those whose sole underlying medical […]

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Adam|Right To Life UK|

There’s a Reason to be Optimistic About the Delayed FDA Abortion Pill Review

News broke this week that the long-awaited FDA review of the deadly chemical abortion drug Mifepristone may not be finished until March of 2027. Many in the pro-life movement, myself included, are upset, rightfully so, as that means that, for the time, there will be no new restrictions on the use or distribution of the […] The post There’s a Reason to be Optimistic About the Delayed FDA Abortion Pill Review appeared first on LifeNews.com .

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Victor Nieves|LifeNews.com|

Kentucky Sues Group Advertising Illegal Abortion Drugs At State Fair

Kentucky is suing a New York group that advertised illegal abortion drugs at the Kentucky State Fair. The state lawsuit accuses Mayday Health, which bills itself as “a reproductive health education nonprofit,” of “engaging in unfair, false, misleading, or deceptive business practices in viola...

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Ontario court denies application for MAID for mental illness

Paul Tuns: Ontario Superior Court Justice Carissima Mathen denied Claire Brosseau and Dying With Dignity an injunction to approve Brosseau to be killed by Medical Assistance in Dying based on mental illness as the sole criteria. Brosseau, a 49-year-old Toronto woman, is an actress and comedian, who filed a motion in May seeking a constitutional [...] The post Ontario court denies application for MAID for mental illness appeared first on The Interim .

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admin|The Interim|

Court Stops Illinois From Penalizing Catholic Hospitals That Refuse Assisted Suicide

A federal court has stopped Illinois from penalizing Catholic hospitals and religious health workers who refuse to take part in the state’s assisted-suicide law, including a requirement that they tell terminally ill patients how to obtain lethal medication. U.S.

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Steven Ertelt|LifeNews.com|

Pro-Life Woman Arrested for Praying at Abortion Biz Pleads Not Guilty

A pro-life leader pleaded not guilty in court today after prosecutors brought five new charges accusing her of silently praying near an abortion facility. This is the first criminal case under Britain’s national buffer-zone law, which prohibits pro-life free speech outside abortion businesses.

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Steven Ertelt|LifeNews.com|

Carney’s Liberals play games with the lives of the mentally ill

At a press conference on Wednesday, Canadian Justice Minister and Attorney General Sean Fraser announced that the Liberal government has concluded euthanasia for those with mental illness as a sole underlying condition cannot and will not be legalized. Then, he and his colleagues headed into the House of Commons and – with two solitary exceptions [...] The post Carney’s Liberals play games with the lives of the mentally ill first appeared on The Bridgehead .

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The Drive to Destroy Catholic Health Care in Canada (and Here)

Religious freedom is under assault throughout the West around what I call “do harm” medicine. With doctors now expected to abort babies, kill or mutilate sick patients, or administer harmful substances to gender dysphoric children, and otherwise toe a utilitarian, secular line in performing professional responsibilities, Hippocratic and pro-life medical professionals and institutions are imperiled.

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Wesley J. Smith|Humanize|