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On February 6, 2026, New York governor Kathy Hochul signed her state’s Medical Aid in Dying Act into law. It was an “emotional decision,” the governor allowed. “Ultimately, though,” she concluded, “I’m proud that I gave people the choice when life gets really hard that they don’t have to prol... The post Is It Right to Die? appeared first on The Human Life Review .
Read →Euthanasia and assisted suicide are expanding worldwide — from Canada’s MAID program to proposed laws in the UK and France. In this episode, Fr. Shenan Boquet breaks down the alarming global trends, including: As countries debate “safeguards,” we examine why guardrails never actually work — and why the Catholic Church teaches that euthanasia and assisted… The post The Global Push for Euthanasia and How to Respond | Fr. Shenan Boquet appeared first on Human Life International .
Read →Date: Thursday 26th February 2026 Release time: Immediate Care Not Killing has warned that today’s vote in Jersey is not the end of the process, as it says there are significant legal and constitutional obstacles, such as complying with the European Convention on Human Rights and whether the provisions of the Bill are compatible with […] The post Jersey vote on assisted dying is not the end, says Care Not Killing appeared first on Care Not Killing .
Read →In Canada in 2024, an astonishing total of 16,499 people died by euthanasia, according to the latest official report. It means the number dying in this way has trebled in just five years. Under Canada’s very liberal ‘assisted dying’ law, a person does not have to be terminally ill to avail of euthanasia. Worryingly, half of […] The post Euthanasia numbers in Canada continue to soar first appeared on The Iona Institute .
Read →Date: Tuesday 24th February 2026 Release time: Immediate Care Not Killing (CNK), is disappointed at the approval by the Senedd of the “dangerous” Legislative Consent Motion on assisted dying today. Dr Gordon Macdonald, CEO of Care Not Killing, commented: “Naturally, we are disappointed by the approval of this dangerous Legislative Consent Motion, especially given the […] The post Disappointment at Senedd’s approval of LCM on “assisted dying” bill appeared first on Care Not Killing .
Read →As I write, news outlets are reporting what AP calls “the first reported use of [Chinese] artificial intelligence to direct a hacking campaign in a largely automated fashion.” On the euthanasia/suicide front, a Canadian reports losing two grandmothers to Medical Assistance in Dying. Serendipitously,... The post INTRODUCTION Fall 2025 appeared first on The Human Life Review .
Read →Most of the media are in the tank (remember Brittany Maynard?) for the assisted suicide/euthanasia agenda and, as a consequence, are primarily interested in reporting on stories of “good deaths.” That criticism does not apply to The Atlantic, which recently published a scathing exposé of the cruelties inherent in Canada’s euthanasia regime. Now, staff writer Elizabeth Bruenig has published an important piece detailing how a mentally ill 31-year-old woman named Eileen Mihich was able to access poison drugs by writing herself a fraudulent prescription for death, which was filled unquestioningly
Read →The amount of positive news that I have had the pleasure of reporting to you in recent months is quite astonishing. It is giving me hope. Last week, I told you about how pro-euthanasia and assisted suicide measures are stalling in several nations in Europe, as opponents are raising significant concerns about how such laws… The post An Encouraging Return to Reason: American Medical Organizations Warn against “Gender-Affirming Care” for Minors appeared first on Human Life International .
Read →What happens after killing is legalized? In this episode of Bioethics Babe, I sit down with Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, to examine what Canada’s euthanasia regime reveals about medicine, consent, and human dignity. Euthanasia and assisted suicide are often framed as compassion about choice, autonomy, and relief from suffering. But as Canada’s MAiD system shows, once killing becomes legal, safeguards collapse, definitions expand, and the most vulnerable people are placed at risk. In this conversation, we discuss: This is a difficult conversation,
Read →Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide bill has bogged down in the Upper Chamber, and Lord Charlie Falconer is livid. The former justice secretary has proposed ramrodding the legislation through using the Parliament Act, which would allow the House of Commons to override rejection or delay in the House of Lords—and likely trigger a constitutional crisis. To [...] The post UK Assisted Suicide Bill Halted by Last Stand in the Lords first appeared on The Bridgehead .
Read →Euthanasia conjoined with organ harvesting just took a particularly disturbing turn in Spain, where a woman was euthanized and then had part of her face transplanted. From the Catalan News story: Vall d’Hebron University Hospital in Barcelona has performed the world’s first face transplant with a donor who passed away from euthanasia. Around 100 medical professionals took part in the partial face transplant, a highly complex operation using neurovascular microsurgery techniques that lasted about 24 hours. In presenting the milestone procedure, the healthcare director, Maria José Abadías, highl
Read →Date: Friday 30th January 2026 Release time: Immediate Care Not Killing welcomes defiant comments from Peers that they will not be bullied into passing unsafe assisted dying bill Care Not Killing welcomes the defiant comments from Peers debating the Assisted Dying Bill today, that they will not be rushed or bullied into passing an unsafe […] The post CNK welcomes defiance in the face of Parliament Acts threats appeared first on Care Not Killing .
Read →The French Senate has said “Non” to legalizing assisted suicide. From the Le Monde story: The Sénat, the French Parliament’s upper house, on Wednesday, January 28, rejected a government-backed draft law on assisted dying that had been billed as one of the country’s most important societal changes in more than a decade. The law easily passed the lower Assemblée Nationale last year but was so watered down by right-wing and centrist lawmakers, in often angry and chaotic debate in the upper chamber, that supporters of the initiative said it no longer made sense. So, what did the “watering down” ac
Read →Another nightmare euthanasia case in Canada has made international headlines. “Canadian woman was euthanized ‘against her will’ after husband was fed-up with caring for her,” the Daily Mail reported on January 22. “An elderly woman was euthanized within hours of her husband claiming she changed her mind after insisting she wanted to live,” wrote U.S. senior investigations [...] The post Elderly Canadian woman euthanized within hours despite changing her mind: report first appeared on The Bridgehead .
Read →“The truth that life is a precious gift from God has profound implications for the question of stewardship over human life. We are not the owners of our lives and, hence, do not have absolute power over life. … Suicide and euthanasia are never morally acceptable options.” ― USCCB, Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic… The post AI-Assisted Suicide for Couples: The Disturbing Rise of the Sarco Pod appeared first on Human Life International .
Read →I really do try to write about other issues. But the awfulness keeps on coming. Yesterday, I called attention to the Canadian bioethicist who claimed that lethal jabs are no different than hip replacements. Today, I came across an awful story out of Australia in which Tony Lewis, age 71 and experiencing Motor Neurone Disease — what we call ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease — has asked for euthanasia because he was denied sufficient financial support for his disability. From the Hello Care report: A Queensland man with Motor Neurone Disease has chosen to access voluntary assisted dying after being de
Read →Canada has leaped into euthanasia’s moral abyss with a smile on its face. Since 2015, killable categories have expanded dramatically, from those whose death is “reasonably foreseeable” — a category that was already so broad you could drive a hearse through it — to the chronically ill, people with disabilities, the frail elderly, and, starting next year, the mentally ill. More than 16,000 Canadians were killed by doctors and nurse practitioners last year. It’s the fifth-most-common cause of death in the country. Many commentators point to these and other facts about Canada’s euthanasia regime t
Read →Another heartbreaking story out of Canada’s euthanasia regime–and a very significant one. Watch: As always, follow the podcast wherever you get your content: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Rumble, or YouTube. You can get a copy of my new book How We Got Here: A Guide to Our Anti-Christian Culture at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, or at The Bridgehead, where you can also find other culture columns if you’re [...] The post WATCH: 26 y/o with Depression Euthanized Against Family’s Wishes first appeared on The Bridgehead .
Read →Public Policy Researcher Carys Moseley explains why Welsh politicians should reject a motion to allow assisted suicide on the NHS should Leadbeater’s bill pass through parliament On Tuesday 27 January, Members of the Welsh Senedd will vote on whether the provisions of Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide bill will be introduced in the NHS in Wales. ... The post Welsh politicians should vote against assisted suicide appeared first on Christian Concern .
Read →Freedom of religion is on the ropes in increasingly authoritarian Canada — despite a specific charter guarantee of “freedom of religion and conscience.” Indeed, an Ontario court ruled previously that doctors can be coerced under threat of professional discipline to perform lethal jabs or abortions against their religious beliefs and conscience objections. Why? The court ruled that the unenumerated right of patients to receive any legal procedure paid for by the government superseded the specific charter protection. If doctors don’t want to kill, the court also ruled, they can either provide an
Read →In a heartbreaking Facebook post, Canadian mother Margaret Marsilla has revealed that her 26-year-old son, Kiano V., was killed by euthanasia on December 30, 2025. She said his death was approved by Dr. Ellen Wiebe, a Vancouver abortionist and euthanasia practitioner who has ended the lives of over 400 patients. Kiano suffered from diabetes, which had resulted [...] The post Young man previously saved from euthanasia killed by an abortionist first appeared on The Bridgehead .
Read →Assisted suicide campaigners are urging peers to allocate yet more time to debate the assisted suicide bill. But will more time really fix a bill as fatally flawed as Leadbeater’s assisted suicide bill? Holly Baines explores the issue As the likely deadline for passing – or defeating – Leadbeater’s assisted suicide bill looms in the ... The post There’s no time for assisted suicide because it’s bad law appeared first on Christian Concern .
Read →In a stunning moment in the UK House of Lords, Lord Charles Leslie Falconer, Baron Falconer of Thoroton, stated that “pregnancy should not be a bar” to assisted suicide. Falconer served as Secretary of State for Justice under Prime Minister Tony Blair and is both a longtime advocate of assisted suicide and the bill’s sponsor [...] The post Lord Falconer says pregnant women should be able to choose assisted suicide first appeared on The Bridgehead .
Read →Once someone is considered killable or supported in suicide, they may become objectified so as to be used instrumentally. Such is the case with people requesting to be euthanized. The idea is that they are going to die anyway, want to die — even as they do not receive suicide prevention — so we might as well get good use out of them such as by conjoining their hastened deaths with organ harvesting. This abandonment (in my view) is rife in Canada, where in Ontario, a patient approved for a lethal jab will soon receive a call from the organ procurement society asking for their organs. The Nether
Read →Schadenberg organizes the coalition's 2025 reporting and advocacy into a month-by-month review. The roundup links Canadian assisted-dying controversies, disability-rights developments, and campaigns over assisted-suicide legislation in the United States and elsewhere.
Read →Eileen Mihich deserved better. Aging With Dignity has put out a powerful, short film that further dispels the disingenuous claims by ableist proponents of assisted suicide laws that there has never been a single instance in which safeguards have failed. To the assisted suicide proponent question: Where is the evidence of abuse, coercion and error? […]
Read →To the surprise of absolutely no one, New York Governor Hochul has said that in January, after some minor changes are added, she will sign the bill legalizing assisted suicide.
Read →With a scribbled signature by Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, the Land of Lincoln became the 12th state (plus the District of Columbia) to legalize physician-assisted suicide. The new law, which takes effect in September, euphemistically describes assisted suicide as “medical aid in dying”—a pretense that prescribed poisonous overdoses are somehow equivalent to administering healing treatments. Give me a break. The point of “care,” is well, care. The point of assisted suicide is immediate death. So, why do I insist on using “assisted suicide” instead of “medical aid in dying?” Because this issue
Read →On Monday, December 15, Wesley J. Smith appeared on Ave Maria in the Afternoon with Marcus B. Peter to discuss the recent legalization of assisted suicide in Illinois.
Read →Of course Governor Pritzker signed the assisted suicide bill. Was there ever any doubt? Assisted suicide has become part of the progressive policy agenda. The new Illinois law (SB 1950) contains many of the usual provisions and supposed safeguards. Once the law goes into effect next September, these putative protections will quickly be redefined as “obstacles” to a good death and the inevitable process of legal loosening will commence. This is the point at which I usually urge doctors to refuse participation in the killing of their patients. The law does permit doctors to refuse to actually pr
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