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Umbrella filter covering euthanasia and assisted-suicide topics; not a claim that their legal definitions are identical.
Alex Schadenberg Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition On November 4, Members of Parliament debated Bill C-41 that is falsely titled the: Medical Assistance in Dying Safeguards Act . Article: The Canadian government introduces Bill C-41 to expand euthanasia law ( Link ).
Read →The national elections, just completed, added five states that will be completely controlled by Democrats next year, i.e., legislature and governor. They are, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
Read →Subhead:Four years after an employee suggested assisted suicide to multiple veterans, the department says it tracks every veteran-initiated MAID discussion but hasn't disclosed how many have occurred.# Veterans Affairs Canada says it hasn't heard of a single case of its staff suggesting assisted suicide to a veteran in more than four years. But it also admits veterans are still bringing up medical assistance in dying, or MAID, with its staff.
Read →The number of people who have died by euthanasia or assisted suicide in Queensland increased for 2025–2026 to a record 1,082 – a 36% rise since the first year after legalization.
Read →The programme was discussing the latest push to legalise euthanasia/assisted suicide in Ireland. The post Elma Walsh calls for compassionate care, not Euthanasia, on RTÉ’s Liveline appeared first on Pro Life Campaign .
Read →The staggeringly swift expansion of euthanasia law in Australia continues, as the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) has reported its first euthanasia deaths, showing that the territory appears on track to have the highest proportion of assisted deaths in its first year among all jurisdictions in the world with their own assisted death laws. ACT’s assisted […] The post Euthanasia is Out of Control in Australia, Deaths Hit Record High appeared first on LifeNews.com .
Read →The 'Safeguards Act' would not require that a person to be told what is about to happen before a life is ended after an advance request is made, while MP Leslyn Lewis argued that the only one to make that decision should be 'the patient.'
Read →The swift expansion of euthanasia law in Australia continues as the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) has reported its first euthanasia deaths, showing that the territory appears on track to have the highest proportion of assisted deaths in its first year among all jurisdictions in the world with their own assisted death laws. ACT’s assisted death […]
Read →Alex Schadenberg Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition I have been travelling and speaking over the past few weeks and had the opportunity to speak to a lot of people about euthanasia and assisted suicide. This week I have had events in British Columbia and last week I was in Ontario and Saskatchewan, while the week before that I was in Michigan.
Read →"As Catholics, we... refuse to allow New York to force us to harm the very ones we’ve been called to care for."
Read →The following is the statement of the Orthodox Church in America on Euthanasia and assisted suicide. ( Link to the Statement ).
Read →The Archdiocese of New York joined four religious orders and other ministries in a federal lawsuit challenging the Medical Aid in Dying Act, which took effect Aug. 5.
Read →New York Archbishop Ronald A. Hicks, the Archdiocese of New York and ArchCare Catholic healthcare ministry have challenged New York's assisted suicide law.
Read →Campaign Life Coalition calls on Parliament to split Bill C-41 and reject its provisions permitting euthanasia of persons who cannot consent at the time of death.
Read →A New Zealand doctor carried out euthanasia using expired lethal drugs prescribed for another patient, before the legally required compliance review had been completed, official documents obtained by Voice For Life reveal.
Read →A recent Leger poll of 1510 randomly selected Canadians found, among other things, that 11% of Canadians knew someone who was offered (MAiD) euthanasia. The question was one of 11 questions.
Read →Calls have been made for an inquiry into Queensland’s ‘assisted dying’ laws after new figures for the most recent quarter showed numbers continued to increase. The release of the data comes after full-year figures revealed that assisted deaths accounted for approximately 3% of all deaths in Queensland in 2025-26.
Read →Archbishop Ronald Hicks joined a suit brought by several orders of religious sisters against the state’s recently instituted suicide regime. The post New York archbishop joins in suing state over assisted suicide law appeared first on The Catholic Thing .
Read →Calls have been made for an inquiry into Queensland’s ‘assisted dying’ laws after new figures for the most recent quarter showed numbers continued to increase. The release of the data comes after full-year figures revealed that assisted deaths accounted for approximately 3% of all deaths in Queensland in 2025-26.
Read →The lawsuit in question concerns New York state’s assisted suicide mandate that requires healthcare providers to present patients with the option of assisted suicide when giving a terminal diagnosis.
Read →Subhead:Conservative MP Bob Zimmer says his dying father asked to spend his final days at home. Instead, he was offered euthanasia he never asked for, and a new poll suggests his family is far from alone.# A Conservative MP from B.C.
Read →Alex Schadenberg Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition A recent Leger poll of 1510 randomly selected Canadians found, among other things, that 11% of Canadians knew someone who was offered (MAiD) euthanasia. The question was one of 11 questions.
Read →The Archdiocese of New York says the law would force Catholic hospitals to participate in practices contrary to their mission of caring for patients
Read →Subhead:Amanda Achtman says the Liberals' Bill C-41 would let doctors end the lives of dementia patients who can no longer consent.# YouTube-embed:fFzYGHy-OPE On Friday's episode of The Ezra Levant Show , Amanda Achtman , founder of Dying to Meet You , joined Ezra to discuss the Liberal government's latest change to medical assistance in dying (MAID). Achtman said Bill C-41 scraps MAID for mental illness as a sole condition, which has been delayed year after year, but pairs it with advance requests that would let a person schedule a doctor-administered death for a future point when they have d
Read →If a loved one invited you to be there at their assisted suicide, what would you do? Would you refuse, and risk hurting them or facing familial estrangement?
Read →David Atkins says he brings the calm of a Zen monastery to the homes of New Yorkers who want to choose when and how they die.
Read →The loving care of Catholic religious sisters has surrounded dying New Yorkers for decades, but now, plaintiffs say a new law would force healthcare workers to take an active part in promoting assisted suicide. Aleteia previously reported that Bishop John O.
Read →Archbishop Ronald Hicks joined a suit brought by several orders of religious sisters against the state’s recently instituted suicide regime.
Read →When the Canadian government announced it would not expand MAiD for mental illness, MPs promised to push for advance directives for dementia, and they have.
Read →Subhead:Sheila Gunn Reid explains how Canada went from a last-resort euthanasia law to one where MAID accounts for roughly one in 20 deaths, and what Bill C-41 could do next in a new book.# YouTube-embed:_gnbYoB2Nf4 When Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) arrived in 2016, it was sold to Canadians as a last resort for people whose deaths were already reasonably foreseeable. But that safeguard is gone.
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