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As the UK again considers legalizing assisted suicide, Philip "Dr. Death" Nitschke promotes his new suicide collar, but was too nervous to bring it with him.
Read →Pro-life veteran, crossbench Peer, and senior member of the All-Party Parliamentary Pro-Life Group, Lord Alton of Liverpool, is calling on opponents of the assisted suicide Bill to act now to ensure its defeat this Friday 11 September. With only days to go and only 12 MPs needing to change their minds, the assisted suicide Bill […]
Read →The vote on the UK assisted suicide bill will be held a day after World Suicide Prevention Day, highlighting the eugenic premise of assisted suicide.
Read →On 11 September 2026, assisted suicide is set to return to the House of Commons. Labour MP Lauren Edwards has resurrected the previous bill that ran out of time in the House of Lords because of its inadequate safeguards. Prime Minister Andy Burnham has indicated that it’s not the time to push through assisted suicide, ... The post Stop reckless assisted suicide bill becoming law appeared first on Christian Concern .
Read →THE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The Catholic Church in Illinois is challenging the Democrat-led state’s recently passed assisted suicide law in court. Chicago’s archbishop, Cardinal Blase Cupich, joined two orders of Catholic nuns and an Illinois pharmacist in a lawsuit filed Thursday in an effort to block the End-of-Life Options for Terminally Ill Patients Act (EOLOA), the Becket...
Read →Smith responds to coverage of a planned New York assisted-suicide clinic by warning about financial conflicts of interest. He argues that provider revenue and healthcare cost pressures could undermine protection of vulnerable patients.
Read →We are now just six days away from the decisive House of Commons vote on the revived assisted suicide Bill on Friday 11 September. Lord Alton has written the following message for people like you who are helping to stop the assisted suicide Bill passing next Friday. If you have not already, please email your […]
Read →Two-thirds of MPs are concerned that Lauren Edwards’ Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill could undermine trust in our political processes if Parliament passes legislation which is well-intentioned but fails adequately to protect some of those it is seeking to help, according to a major new poll of attitudes toward the legislation, commissioned by […] The post Two-thirds of MPs concerned that passing assisted dying legislation that fails to protect people will undermine trust in politics appeared first on Care Not Killing .
Read →PRESS RELEASE – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Press release – Calls for Home Secretary to block “Dr Death” visit to demonstrate sinister ‘suicide collar’ device ahead of assisted suicide Bill vote 04 September 2026 – MPs and campaigners have called on the Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, to prevent Dr Nitschke from being allowed into the UK […]
Read →Alex Schadenberg Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition On February 6, 2026, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed the assisted suicide bill with the law caming into effect on August 5 . This is terrible news as it will lead to the deaths of many people, at a vulnerable time of their life by lethal poison. To increase the demand for assisted suicide the New York Times published an article on September 3 by Emma Goldberg promoting a new assisted suicide "business". Goldberg describes it as a business "start-up" for assisted suicide. In reality the article is providing free ad
Read →Alex Schadenberg Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition John Pring reported for the Disability New Service on September 3, 2026 that the British government admitted that disabled people may face 'subtle pressure' to choose assisted suicide if the assisted suicide bill becomes law. Pring reported that: The impact assessment was published by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) last Thursday (August 28). The assessment’s publication came on the same day that prime minister Andy Burnham wrote to Labour MPs to say he would not vote on the b
Read →A family in Ontario says their elderly aunt is being repeatedly asked to consider 'medical assistance in dying,' or MAiD, despite having already refused.
Read →A sign is seen St. Mary’s Home for the Little Sisters of the Poor in Chicago Aug. 19, 2026. Cardinal Blase J. Cupich of Chicago, the Carmelite Sisters for the Aged and Infirm and the Chicago Province of the Little Sisters of the Poor, and an Illinois pharmacist sued Illinois Sept. 3 over the state’s physician-assisted suicide law, which permits physicians to aid terminally ill adults in dying by suicide. " data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.americamagazine.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/20260903T1500-CUPICH-NUNS-ILLINOIS-ASSISTED-SUICIDE-LAWSUIT-1825672-scaled.jpg?fit=780%2C521&ssl=1" /> I
Read →MPs and campaigners have called on the Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, to prevent Dr Nitschke from being allowed into the UK to demonstrate his Kairos ‘suicide collar’ device this weekend ahead of the Second Reading vote on the Edwards assisted suicide Bill. Philip Nitschke, the controversial founder of euthanasia organisation Exit International, nicknamed ‘Dr Death’, […]
Read →Cardinal Blase J. Cupich of Chicago, two orders of Catholic nuns, and an Illinois pharmacist sued Illinois Sept. 3 over the state's physician-assisted suicide law, which permits physicians to aid terminally ill adults in dying by suicide. The post Cardinal Cupich, women religious, Catholic pharmacist sue Illinois over assisted suicide law first appeared on OSV News .
Read →"The Gospel calls us to uphold the inviolable dignity and worth of the human person, from life's first moment to its natural end." The post Cardinal Cupich, sisters sue Illinois over assisted suicide law first appeared on Angelus News .
Read →More than 150 doctors and other healthcare workers from across the North East of England have called on MPs to reject the new assisted suicide Bill at its Second Reading on 11 September, saying that it has “major shortcomings”. The healthcare professionals, whose number includes GPs, palliative care consultants, and a former chair of one […]
Read →Alex Schadenberg Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition I have good news. Justice Carissima Mathen denied Claire Brosseau and Dying With Dignity an injunction to approve Brosseau to be killed by euthanasia (MAiD) based on mental illness as the sole criteria. Brosseau lives in Toronto Ontario. ( Link to the court decision ). The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition (EPC) intervened in the Brosseau case and participated in the hearings on July 21/22, 2026. ( Read ). The cost to intervene in a court case is prohibitive. EPC continues to need at least $20,000 in donations to cover ou
Read →"The risk is that the Regional Health Service will end up taking on a role that goes beyond its fundamental mission... to treat patients and protect life."
Read →In this episode of Solid Ground, Simon starts in France noting its new euthanasia law forces care facilities and private religious establishments to participate even if against their beliefs. He also notes the dark irony of France also allowing young people to be euthanised, but is simultaneously debating a social media. The post Solid Ground – 3 September 2026 appeared first on Family First NZ .
Read →In this episode of Family Matters, how is it that euthanasia advocates always talk about autonomy and yet, at the same time, want to force doctors, nurses, and hospices to be part of something they strongly reject? The post Family Matters – Wesley J. Smith On Autonomy For Some, Not All appeared first on Family First NZ .
Read →The following article by Zubir Ahmad was published by the Guardian on August 25, 2026 . Usually we comment on an article, but Dr Zubir Ahmad it was better to simply republish this article. The British parliament will once again vote-on an assisted suicide bill on September 11, 2026. The new bill is nearly identical to the previous bill. Dr Zubir Ahmad By Dr Zubir Ahmad As a doctor, I have spent much of my professional life caring for people at some of the most vulnerable moments they will ever face. I have seen the anxiety that surrounds the prospect of dying, and the desperate wis
Read →A major article in the Journal of Health & Biomedical Law argues that doctors have an ethical obligation to inform patients about voluntary stop eating and drinking (VSED) as a means to hasten death and to provide palliative care to ease the suffering caused by this method, even if it conflicts with their moral conscience. The article also supports the use of advance directives to refuse nourishment during VSED and suggests that caregivers should deny food or drink if the patient becomes confused and requests it, framing this as a duty under the principle of non-abandonment.
Read →Gordon Friesen By Gordon Friesen President, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition One of our great friends and allies, Wesley J. Smith, has recently written about the British Medical Association's newly minted policy and other bioethics articles which require doctors to collaborate with patients who are attempting to kill themselves through hunger and thirst. This practice is commonly euphemized as ‘voluntarily stopping eating and drinking’, which ungainly expression is then replaced with the more slick-sounding acronym ‘VSED’. However we must unfortunately note (as usual) that the most important fa
Read →“Academic freedom means little if academics have to worry that expressing controversial views within the law might put their institutional status...at risk.”
Read →The accessible opening presents a family's allegation that an Ontario grandmother's assisted death conflicted with her expressed beliefs and wishes. It identifies the family's public account as its source, but the full report was not available for review.
Read →Hawkins uses the Lindsay Clancy case to discuss mental illness, maternal crisis and the way the pro-life movement speaks about mothers and children. She argues that defending life requires both moral clarity and compassion toward women facing severe psychological distress.
Read →A senior British archbishop says the drive for assisted suicide stems in part from a diminished sense of life as gift, coupled with in intense desire for control.
Read →A government adviser on suicide prevention has pointed out that the vote on the assisted suicide Bill will take place the day after World Suicide Prevention Day, revealing a striking disparity in supporters of the Bill’s views on suicide. The World Suicide Prevention Day campaign, organised by the International Association for Suicide Prevention and co-sponsored […]
Read →Alex Schadenberg Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Do not ask me about euthanasia . I am not interested. I was contacted by a woman who called us on behalf of her elderly Aunt who was receiving treatment in a hospital in London Ontario. The Aunt wanted to know if there was anything that could be done to stop the MAiD team from asking her if she wanted MAiD. The woman told me that her Aunt was asked, if she wanted euthanasia twice, in a pretty persuasive manner, and she said NO. The woman told me that her Aunt was very upset because the person in the bed next to her was sold e
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