Tag: Assisted Suicide

Scotland: Senior MSPs speak out against assisted suicide bill

By Right to Life UK A senior Conservative MSP [Member of the Scottish Parliament] has come out in opposition to making assisted suicide legal in Scotland, citing her concerns about “legislative creep”. Earlier this week, Sue Webber, MSP for Lothian and Convenor of Holyrood’s Education, Children and Young People Committee, told The Herald that she had changed …

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ACTION ALERT!! Assisted Suicide Hearing Dates Announced for 2024

On Thursday, February 8th, the Maryland Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee will be holding a legislative hearing on the Senate version of proposed Assisted Suicide legislation. The bill will also be heard by the House Health and Government Operations and Judiciary Committees (HGO/JUD) on Friday, February 16th. Where Assisted Suicide has been enacted in other states, …

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An Australian human rights commission wants ‘assisted dying’ for children and people with dementia

By Michael Cook Although the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) is on track to creating the nation’s most progressive “voluntary assisted dying” (VAD) legislation, its human rights commission is already complaining that it is too restrictive. With a population of only half a million, the ACT has an outsize influence on the national debate, as it is …

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“No dignity” for family of Irish man who died by assisted suicide

By Right to Life UK The niece of a 59-year-old Irish man who ended his life by assisted suicide in Switzerland has shared the family’s testimony with the Irish parliament’s Joint Committee on Assisted Dying, saying that, when their uncle ended his life, “There was no dignity for our family”. Emer Maguire spoke as part of …

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Her husband’s death made her more opposed to assisted suicide.

By Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Dominic Penna wrote an excellent article published in the Telegraph on January 9 concerning an article by Nadine Dorries, the former cultural secretary in the UK government, on how the death of her husband has made her more strongly opposed to assisted suicide. Penna writes: Nadine Dorries has said …

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Is Assisted Suicide Coming to Michigan?

By Right to Life of Michigan Physician-assisted suicide—or “Death with Dignity” (a euphemism preferred by its proponents)—is a threat in our state yet again. In December of 2023, a package of bills (SB 678-681) was introduced in the Michigan State Senate to legalize the dangerous practice of allowing doctors to prescribe lethal doses of drugs …

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Biden rule change is likely to leave healthcare workers more vulnerable to being forced to participate in procedures that violate their conscience

WASHINGTON, D.C.— On Tuesday, the Department of Health and Human Services rescinded, in part, a 2019 Trump-era rule that protected the conscience rights of healthcare workers. The Trump-era rule, if implemented, would have given healthcare workers the ability to seek meaningful recourse if they were forced to violate their ethical and religious beliefs. If a …

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Assisted suicide bills must be defeated in at least 10 US states.

By Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Assisted suicide bills have currently been introduced in 10 US states including: Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin. We expect several more states to introduce an assisted suicide bill in 2024. Some of the assisted suicide bills are being debated in …

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Court rules ‘voluntary assisted dying’ is suicide

By Michael Cook Such is the stigma surrounding suicide that advocates of “voluntary assisted dying” [VAD] insist vehemently that it is by no means suicide. For instance, Go Gentle Australia, a leading lobby group for VAD, explains in its website’s FAQ that: “People seeking voluntary assisted dying are not suicidal; they don’t want to die but are …

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Italian woman with Multiple Sclerosis dies by assisted suicide 

By Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition An Italian woman with Multiple Sclerosis from Trieste died by assisted suicide on November 28. The Ansa.it news reported on December 12 that: 55-year-old Trieste woman committed assisted suicide by injecting herself with a lethal drug on November 28 becoming the first Italian to kill herself with the direct …

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Advocates of ‘voluntary assisted dying’ vehemently insist it is not suicide

By Michael Cook Such is the stigma surrounding suicide that advocates of “voluntary assisted dying” [VAD] insist vehemently that it is by no means suicide. For instance, Go Gentle Australia, a leading lobby group for VAD, explains in its website’s FAQ that: “People seeking voluntary assisted dying are not suicidal; they don’t want to die but …

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Patients must worry that physicians are no longer necessarily committed to “first do no harm” 

In his brilliant National Review Online columns, which we repost regularly, Wesley J. Smith helps the reader appreciate that, like a cancer, the growth of support for so-called physician-assisted must be fought 24/7.  Read the whole story.

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