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On 11 September, MPs are expected to vote again on the assisted suicide bill. This could have profound consequences for how our society protects people who are seriously ill, disabled, elderly or vulnerable. Before your MP votes, make sure they hear from you. One message really can make a difference. Ask them to fix care, […] The post Contact your MP appeared first on Care Not Killing .
Read →Smith joins Simon O'Connor to defend clinicians' freedom to decline participation in assisted suicide and euthanasia. The discussion also challenges a consumer-service model of medicine that treats professionals as obliged to provide any requested intervention.
Read →Smith criticizes proposals that would require clinicians to facilitate a patient's decision to stop eating and drinking to hasten death. He highlights conscience concerns and the particular implications of such proposals for people with dementia.
Read →A new Government assessment of the revived assisted suicide Bill, which MPs will vote on at Second Reading on 11 September, has warned that poverty, poorer access to healthcare, lower-quality care and domestic abuse could lead to “disproportionate numbers of ethnic minority people” opting to end their lives through assisted suicide, as new Government modelling […]
Read →Alex Schadenberg and Marcel Lemmen are running a half-marathon on September 27, 2026 to raise money for the Compassionate Community Charity (CCC) and/or the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition. This is the seventh consecutive year that Alex and Marcel are running the half-marathon fund-raiser for CCC and EPC. The money raised for CCC from the previous 6 half-marathon runs combined is almost $90,000. Donations from the half-marathon (21.1 km) run are very much appreciated. The Compassionate Community Care (CCC) charity operates a help-line, a training program for visiting seniors
Read →Meghan Schrader By Meghan Schrader Meghan is a disability activists and a member of the EPC-USA board. As I’ve said, I think that one of the most effective ways to prevent euthanasia is for euthanasia opponents to be thinking about what kind of world we want people with disabilities to live in, and do what we can to link euthanasia prevention to creating a better world. Hence, I think it’s valuable for euthanasia opponents to be aware of the trend towards broad re-institutionalization that is happening in the United States right now, especially since we know that coerced institutionaliza
Read →Australia's Northern Territory has legalized assisted suicide again, more than 30 years since it had first been legal for about one year.
Read →29 August 2026 – A new Government assessment of the revived assisted suicide Bill, which MPs will vote on at Second Reading on 11 September, has warned that poverty, poorer access to healthcare, lower-quality care and domestic abuse could lead to “disproportionate numbers of ethnic minority people” opting to end their lives through assisted suicide, […]
Read →The 1,235 deaths account for 0.438% of all deaths for residents of California in 2025. The post California sees record assisted suicide deaths after 150% rise in five years appeared first on ZENIT - English .
Read →TikTok creators are romanticizing 'assisted dying' as part of a social media trend, despite the deadly and disturbing nature of the practice.
Read →The judge's order is in place pending the result of two cases under appeal in the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, NIFLA v. Treto and Schroeder v. Treto. The post Judge temporarily blocks Illinois assisted suicide law; plaintiffs feel ‘relief, gratitude for now’ first appeared on OSV News .
Read →A senior British archbishop has said that an assisted suicide bill could mean victims of domestic violence are coerced into killing themselves.
Read →New British Prime Minister Andy Burnham delivers a speech at the People’s History Museum in Manchester June 29, 2026. UK bishops welcomed the new Catholic prime minister’s approach to palliative care as Catholic charities urged him to turn to his faith to support the poor and to take action on the climate crisis. Photo: OSV News/Temilade Adelaja, Reuters. " data-medium-file="https://www.irishcatholic.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/24-3-300x200.jpg" data-large-file="https://www.irishcatholic.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/24-3-1024x683.jpg" /> With the threat of legal assisted suicide looming l
Read →Alex Schadenberg Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Australia's Northern Territory I have sad news. Australia's Northern Territory was the first jurisdiction in the world to legalize assisted suicide between 1996 - 97, and once again has legalized assisted suicide. Joseph Hathaway-Wilson reported for ABC News Australia on August 27 that: The Northern Territory Parliament has passed a bill legalising voluntary assisted dying (VAD) in the NT, with significant restrictions on accessing, and initiating conversations about, the practice. The NT is now both the first and last
Read →Dr. Mark Komrad The following comments were provided by Dr. Mark Komrad, M.D., DFAPA, ACP, Faculty of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins, University of Maryland, Tulane, and LSU You may have heard that France’s National Assembly overrode their Senate’s objection to a proposed euthanasia law , and legalized it. A review by the French constitutional court has since upheld it, with a some of important clarifications, a couple of which are disturbing: Like Canada and Benelux countries, the law allows both US style assisted suicide (oral prescription) AND euthanasia (IV lethal injection by doctor). [In all
Read →Alex Schadenberg Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Philip Nitschke, also known as Dr Death, who invented a suicide pod, stated in an interview, last year, that the suicide pod will be ready for use in Britain if assisted suicide is legalized. Sanchez Manning reported for the Times on June 20, 2025 that: Nitschke, who invented the pod, which uses gas to assist death, said: “As soon as we know that the final legislation is in place we’ll start enthusiastically pursuing the option of using the device in the UK. “We’ll be looking to find UK-registered doctors to assist and of cou
Read →France’s highest constitutional authority has carved out conscience protections for Catholic institutions and pharmacists, which was welcomed by Archbishop Laurent Ulrich of Paris. The post French council protects conscience rights for Catholics, pharmacists as euthanasia law takes effect appeared first on The Catholic Thing .
Read →The state agreed to a federal court order amid a suit brought by the Diocese of Springfield and Bishop Thomas Paprocki. The post Court blocks Illinois assisted suicide mandate for religious objectors – for now first appeared on Angelus News .
Read →Esmeralda Sosa of the Los Angeles archdiocesan Office of Life, Justice, and Peace told Crux Now the statistics are more than sobering, and a call to action.
Read →Thank you to everyone who has already emailed their MP using the new version of our tool. If you have not yet done so – please email your MP now. It takes just 30 seconds. The tool sends a new email tailored specifically for your MP, with important information they need to see before 11 […]
Read →Former Labour health minister and NHS transplant surgeon Zubir Ahmed MP has backed the Prime Minister’s stance on the assisted suicide debate, arguing that the “choice between death without adequate care and a death prematurely self-induced is not a real choice”. Writing in The Guardian ahead of Second Reading of Lauren Edwards’ assisted suicide Bill […]
Read →“Once medical aid in dying becomes available, the status quo changes,” writes Monika Piotrowska.
Read →The decision does not overturn France’s legalization of euthanasia. Rather, it establishes a boundary around the institutions and individuals expected to participate in the new system—and, in doing so, gives religious freedom a significant foothold within a law that had initially offered little room for conscientious dissent The post France legalizes euthanasia but also safeguards the right to conscientious objection appeared first on ZENIT - English .
Read →California has experienced the highest number of yearly assisted suicides on record, with a total of 1,235 deaths in 2025, a 149.49 percent increase over five years. The post California assisted suicides rise by almost 150 per cent in five years appeared first on The Catholic Thing .
Read →A British bishop has said assisted suicide threatens the lives of the vulnerable, including those with disabilities.
Read →Nora Kenney Mittiga Gen Z remains surprisingly attached to our culture’s almost obsessive commitment to individual autonomy, clinging to a worldview that treats suffering and dependence as problems to be eliminated.
Read →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 wish of patients and families to avoid unnecessary suffering. Naturally, we all want people facing the […]
Read →Alex Schadenberg Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Disability leaders opposing assisted suicide On December 12, 2025 w e reported that Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signed assisted suicide bill SB 9 into law. The Illinois assisted suicide law is scheduled to go into effect on September 12, 2026. On August 13, 2026 we reported that a group of Illinois physicians, a Catholic bishop and a faith-based nursing home filed a federal lawsuit seeking to block Illinois’ assisted suicide law before it goes into effect. On August 24, 2026 Molly Sweeney reported for WCIA news that Illinoi
Read →By Odile Marcotte Retired Professor Department of Computer Science, UQAM and a Euthanasia Prevention Coalition board member. Previous article: France legalized euthanasia. What's next ( Link ). Odile Marcotte After the National Assembly of France adopted the law on “aid in dying,” ( Article Link ) five people or groups asked the Constitutional Council (the French equivalent of the Supreme Court of Canada) to state whether this law was constitutional. In its decision published on August 14, 2026, the Constitutional Council did not reject the law or any part of it but asked for three changes ( L
Read →There are now just over two weeks until MPs vote on the revived assisted suicide Bill. We are getting in touch because there is a new action we need you to take today. We have just launched a new version of our MP email tool which includes important new information that we need your MP […]
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