Euthanasia, Assisted Suicide & End-of-Life Care

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Parents Suffering Miscarriage Shouldn’t Have to Fight for the Right to Bury their Child: Lane Koch in The Hill

Today, there’s a culture of death spreading across America. Radical leftists continue to chip away at the very foundation of society by pushing — and often succeeding in passing — bills to expand “assisted suicide,” death by mail, and more. But in a culture that increasingly glorifies taking one’s own life or the lives of others, there’s one kind of ... Read More The post Parents Suffering Miscarriage Shouldn’t Have to Fight for the Right to Bury their Child: Lane Koch in The Hill appeared first on Students for Life of America .

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Action alert – new assisted suicide threat

At 9am this Thursday, the House of Commons Private Members’ Bill ballot will take place. Assisted suicide campaigners, led by Kim Leadbeater MP, have made it clear that they are going to put considerable pressure on the 20 MPs who are successful in the ballot to bring back her assisted suicide Bill. Their aim is […]

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Would New Jersey Bill Authorize Slow-Motion Euthanasia of Dementia Patients?

Serious moves are afoot to allow ending the lives of dementia patients, either by allowing them to be killed by lethal jab euthanasia if requested in a written advance directive (where legal), or to allow a document to be signed requiring caregivers to withhold sufficient food and water to sustain life. New Jersey seems to move subtly in the latter direction with a vaguely worded bill, S.B. 4186, that could open the door to intentional legal undernourishment. From the bill: It is the public policy of this State to respect the dignity, autonomy, and previously expressed wishes of individuals li

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Only hours left

Today is the final day of our appeal. By midnight tonight, we need to reach our £199,250 target. This is now within reach, but we are not there yet. The situation is serious. In the coming weeks and months, we will be facing fresh attempts to bring back assisted suicide at Westminster, major changes to […]

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WATCH: Finally Some Good News

After a steady stream of horror stories, it looks like Ottawa may be finally ready to move against euthanasia for mental illness: As always, follow the podcast wherever you get your content: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Rumble, or YouTube. You can get a copy of my book How We Got Here: A Guide to Our Anti-Christian Culture at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, or at The Bridgehead, where you [...] The post WATCH: Finally Some Good News first appeared on The Bridgehead .

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Disturbing Data: Analyzing Oregon’s 2025 Death with Dignity Act Report

On April 1, the Oregon Health Association (OHA) published its annual Death with Dignity Act (DWDA) Report. This report provides a statistical overview of the rates of assisted suicide in the state and the demographics of its victims. Although the report purports to demonstrate the government’s oversight and good documentation of assisted suicide, it ends up highlighting the defects and troubling information gaps plaguing the DWDA’s system. Untracked Prescriptions and Lost Lethal Drugs Assisted suicide has been legal […] The post Disturbing Data: Analyzing Oregon’s 2025 Death with Dignity Act R

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The King’s Speech: what it means for abortion and assisted suicide

While the King’s Speech made no mention that the Government would take up the failed assisted suicide Bill, the Government’s legislative agenda could be hijacked to introduce further extreme changes to our abortion law. In his speech earlier today, as part of an Oral statement to Parliament, the King outlined the Government’s intention to introduce […]

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“Proof of real success”– Prue Leith praises record high euthanasia rate in Canada

Prue Leith, the celebrity cooking show judge, has celebrated the expansive euthanasia and assisted suicide regime in Canada, stating that 4% of all deaths in the country being caused by euthanasia or assisted suicide is a “real success”. Leith, a patron of the assisted suicide lobbying group, Dignity in Dying, celebrated the vast number of […]

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Adam|Right To Life UK|

Important update on abortion and assisted suicide

We wanted to update you on where things now stand after the fall of the Leadbeater assisted suicide Bill, as the new Parliamentary session begins this Wednesday. Thanks to the hard work and dedication of people like you across the UK, the McArthur assisted suicide Bill in Scotland was defeated in March by 69 votes […]

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Labour loses all seats in council containing assisted suicide Bill sponsor Kim Leadbeater’s parliamentary constituency

In the borough containing Kim Leadbeater’s Spen Valley constituency, Labour lost every single council seat it held in last week’s local election, only weeks after the historic collapse of the Labour MP’s assisted suicide Bill. Across the elections on 7 May for Kirklees District Council, which entirely contains Kim Leadbeater’s Spen Valley parliamentary constituency, the […]

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Adam|Right To Life UK|

Compassion and Love Can Prevent Euthanasia

The elderly are immense gifts to society, yet too often today we see that our culture focuses on personal fulfillment, which can then lead to the neglect of people who are no longer deemed necessary or productive. This includes the sick and the elderly, who may feel lonely, abandoned, and isolated from their own families. […] The post Compassion and Love Can Prevent Euthanasia appeared first on Celebrate Life Magazine .

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Ableism and Social Engineering: If You Know, You Know: Rumour Has it, Euthanasia Proponent Uses “Nothing About Us Without Us!?”

“Nothing about us without us” The above is a link to the Substack article published below, by Not Dead Yet (USA) Board of Directors Member and Executive Director of Toujours Vivant-Not Dead Yet (CAN), Amy Hasbrouck. Get our words out of your mouth! Rumour has it that the head of Dying with Dignity, Helen […]

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A Good Sign: Alberta Makes Legal Euthanasia Harder to Access

Canada has gone hog wild for euthanasia. But the pro-death tide may — may — be beginning to turn. The province of Alberta just passed a bill that significantly restricts eligibility for euthanasia (medical aid in dying, or MAID), soon to be signed into binding law. The biggest change in Bill 18 ends the eligibility of non-terminally-ill patients to be MAIDed (known as Track 2). Among the provisions of Bill 18 (“Safeguards for Last Resort Termination of Life Act”), as summarized by the government: Eligibility in Alberta to individuals 18 and over with capacity to make their own health care deci

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CBC’s euthanasia propaganda threatens the lives of the mentally ill

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation – which became eligible for state-assisted death a long time ago – has performed the function of propaganda arm for nearly every deadly and dangerous social cause of the past half-century, from abortion to “sex change” surgeries for minors. But its barely disguised advocacy for Canada’s euthanasia regime is second to none. [...] The post CBC’s euthanasia propaganda threatens the lives of the mentally ill first appeared on The Bridgehead .

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Will to Live, Will to Life

I recently read news about a British woman named Wendy Duffy, who died in April at an assisted suicide clinic in Switzerland. Duffy’s son, Marcus, passed away some four years ago in a freak accident at their home. Since then, Duffy said, she has wanted to join him in death. She attempted suic... The post Will to Live, Will to Life appeared first on The Human Life Review .

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CBC's euthanasia propaganda threatens the lives of the mentally ill

Van Maren critiques a CBC story about a woman seeking access to medical assistance in dying for mental illness. He argues that the framing favors expansion and conflicts with suicide-prevention messaging.

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May the Fourth Be with You: UK Assisted Suicide Bill Expires: NDY UK Ready for the Next Fight.

Time Ran Out. But the Fight Didn’t. By NDY UK’s Convenor Phil Friend. April 25, 2026, as it appeared on NDY UK’s website HERE. Picture: Members of NDY UK and parliamentary allies in March last year, including Baroness Grey-Thompson (front row, second from right) Yesterday, the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill fell. Not […]

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British Woman’s Story Reveals What’s Wrong with the ‘Assisted Suicide’ Industry

It’s no secret that life is hard. That’s exactly what Hamlet describes in his famous “to be or not to be” soliloquy — a “sea of troubles” brought on by the “slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.” There, Hamlet debates whether it is nobler to endure life’s struggles or to create one’s own “quietus” and drop into what he calls ... Read More The post British Woman’s Story Reveals What’s Wrong with the ‘Assisted Suicide’ Industry appeared first on Students for Life of America .

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Canada’s Euthanasia Regime: Efficiency and Death vs. True Compassion and Dignity

“Euthanasia is a false solution to the drama of suffering, a solution that is not worthy of man. The real answer cannot be, in fact, to give death, as ‘gentle’ as this may be, but to testify to the love that helps us to face pain and agony in a humane way.” ― Pope Benedict… The post Canada’s Euthanasia Regime: Efficiency and Death vs. True Compassion and Dignity appeared first on Human Life International .

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Grieving Mother Dies at Swiss Suicide Clinic

The other day, I wrote about Wendy Duffy, a healthy woman in deep grief because of the death of her son, who was planning to die at a Swiss death clinic. Alas, Duffy apparently did the deed. From the New York Post story: The physically healthy British mom, irreparably heartbroken over the death of her only son, died by euthanasia in Switzerland on Friday. Wendy Duffy, 56, died at the Pegasos assisted suicide clinic in Basel, in what the controversial organization called a “sane suicide,” the Daily Mail reported. “I can confirm that Wendy Duffy, at her own request, was assisted to die on April

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Wesley J. Smith|Humanize|

Suicide Clinic Helping Grieving Mother Die Promotes Death-on-Demand Culture

A grieving mother who is in good health has been accepted for termination by a Swiss suicide clinic. From the New York Post story: A physically healthy British woman heartbroken over the death of her only son is heading to Switzerland to end her own life at an assisted suicide clinic. Wendy Duffy, 56, attempted to take her own life after her son died four years ago — but is soon bound for Switzerland, where assisted suicide is legal, after her application was accepted by a clinic, according to the London Times. Duffy, a former care worker from the West Midlands, told the Daily Mail that she pa

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Wesley J. Smith|Humanize|

RFK Jr. Calls Assisted Suicide Laws “Abhorrent”

Assisted suicide is not discussed much at the federal level. But at a recent Senate committee hearing, Senator James Lankford (R., Okla.) asked HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about his thoughts on assisted suicide. Kennedy was unequivocal (starting at minute 3:30): Lankford: I want to switch to an issue we have not had a lot of time to talk about and that is assisted suicide. We now have three states, California, Colorado, and Vermont that disability groups are filing against some of the assisted suicide laws because it seems to target those with disabilities and the Americans with Disabi

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Wesley J. Smith|Humanize|

Care Not Killing responds to the failure of the Assisted Dying Bill

Date: Friday 24th April 2026 Release time: Immediate Responding to the failure of the Assisted Dying Bill, following the final day of debate in the House of Lords, Dr Gordon Macdonald urged MPs and peers to focus on palliative care. He commented: “The House of Lords scrutiny exposed this Bill as ‘skeleton legislation’ riddled […] The post Care Not Killing responds to the failure of the Assisted Dying Bill appeared first on Care Not Killing .

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Activists Want Fewer Animal — but More Human — Deaths by Euthanasia

After a bear was euthanized in California because she paw-swiped a human who owned a house under which the bruin and her cubs were living, there was a popular outcry. Now, a bill has been put in the hopper in the California State Senate promoting “coexistence” between people and wild animals. From S.B. 1135: It is the policy of the state that the management of wildlife shall include an emphasis on the coexistence of humans and wildlife through department-led efforts to reduce, minimize, and mitigate conflicts. These efforts shall also seek to align with the state’s conservation, public safety,

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Wesley J. Smith|Humanize|

Lord’s scrutiny exposes fatal flaws in “dangerous” Assisted Dying Bill

Date: Thursday 23rd April 2026 Release time: Immediate House of Lords exposes a catalogue of fatal flaws in the “dangerous” Assisted Dying Bill as it approaches the final day of debate in Committee, this Friday, 24th April. Peers have revealed “gaping holes” in the proposed legislation, which seeks to legalise physician-assisted suicide. Despite the […] The post Lord’s scrutiny exposes fatal flaws in “dangerous” Assisted Dying Bill appeared first on Care Not Killing .

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MPs back Lords’ right to reject “unsafe” assisted dying bill as support wavers

New polling reveals only 4 in 10 MPs can be relied upon to vote for the Bill again. 61% of MPs recognise the Lords’ constitutional right to block the legislation. Half of all MPs (49%) fear the Bill will lead to pressure on elderly and disabled people. A significant majority of Members of Parliament […] The post MPs back Lords’ right to reject “unsafe” assisted dying bill as support wavers appeared first on Care Not Killing .

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Only 41% of Canadians support doctors who oppose euthanasia: new survey

It shouldn’t have to be said, but apparently it does, so here goes: Forcing doctors to kill people or to participate in killing people against the dictates of their conscience is Nazi-level bad. That fact is apparently not obvious enough to many Canadians. A new survey, recently published by Research Co., found that just “under two-in-five [...] The post Only 41% of Canadians support doctors who oppose euthanasia: new survey first appeared on The Bridgehead .

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Only 41% of Canadians support doctors who oppose euthanasia: new survey

Van Maren examines a Research Co. poll about health professionals' ability to object to assisted death and abortion. He argues for conscience protections and expresses concern about the level of public support reported in the survey.

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62%: Lords has moral obligation to block laws that threaten vulnerable

Date: Friday 17th April 2026 Release time: Immediate Public back House of Lords acting as “guardian” against unsafe assisted dying bill Six in 10 believe the House of Lords has a ‘moral obligation’ to block or amend legislation that puts the vulnerable at risk. Almost four in 10 of the public are still confused […] The post 62%: Lords has moral obligation to block laws that threaten vulnerable appeared first on Care Not Killing .

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