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Cooke reports that a federal judge temporarily blocked Illinois assisted-suicide legislation following a challenge by religious plaintiffs. She distinguishes that action from a separate disability-rights lawsuit and outlines the law's scheduled implementation.
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Read →Americans United for Life filed an amicus brief supporting an emergency application for an administrative stay in the case M.W. v.
Read →Cooke examines newly released details of a Dutch child-euthanasia case and the official review of the physicians' conduct. She argues that the reported circumstances raise concerns about disability and expanded eligibility for ending children's lives.
Read →Flanders criticizes a New York Times feature about a business providing assisted-death services after New York's legalization. She argues that commercial promotion of assisted death conflicts with suicide prevention and the purpose of healthcare.
Read →Smith argues that suicide-prevention campaigns inconsistently exclude assisted suicide and euthanasia from their concerns. He contrasts that exclusion with prevention strategies promoted by the World Health Organization.
Read →A federal judge denied a request from disability rights advocates to block the Illinois assisted suicide law from going into effect on September 12, 2026, rejecting arguments that the law violates the Americans with Disabilities Act and other protections. The judge noted that one plaintiff, a quadriplegic woman, did not demonstrate harm under the law and questioned the standing of the plaintiffs, while giving them 30 days to appeal the decision.
Read →Tuns summarizes reporting on British Columbia's euthanasia oversight records, distinguishing documentation errors from more serious compliance concerns. The article presents critics' arguments for stronger independent oversight and more transparent reporting of enforcement actions.
Read →Drawing on his family's experience caring for relatives with Alzheimer's disease, Smith argues that dementia should not diminish a person's claim to compassionate care. This excerpt introduces his criticism of changing end-of-life attitudes and links readers to the complete column at The Epoch Times.
Read →Centrum Żoliborz, the venue in Warsaw initially cited for a surrogacy fair organized by the Ukrainian company BioTexCom, refused to rent its premises to the company and stated the event scheduled for September 12–13 was postponed due to client safety concerns. Despite the postponement, BioTexCom continues to promote the event on its website and has shifted to offering individual online consultations, indicating ongoing activity in the Polish market that requires continued vigilance and opposition.
Read →Poland's Catholic bishops have condemned surrogacy as gravely immoral, emphasizing concerns about the commercialization of motherhood and childhood, the dignity of the child, exploitation of women, and potential links to human trafficking, while urging authorities to prevent its practice domestically and abroad. Concurrently, the bishops are contesting new Ministry of National Education regulations that reduce religious instruction to one hour per week and schedule classes at the beginning or end of the school day, arguing these changes hinder students' ability to attend and marginalize religious education in Polish schools.
Read →Disability rights organizations petitioned a federal judge to block the Illinois assisted suicide law scheduled to take effect on September 12, 2026, arguing it violates the Americans with Disabilities Act and discriminates against disabled people due to potential physician bias and coercion. Additionally, Chicago Archbishop Cardinal Blase Cupich and two orders of Catholic nuns filed a lawsuit claiming the law infringes on constitutional protections for free speech and religious freedom, while a judge is expected to decide on the law's legality before its implementation date.
Read →Flanders recounts Stephanie Levesque Murphy's allegation that intended parents pressured her to abort after a prenatal heart-condition diagnosis. Murphy describes refusing abortion, losing support, and being left without information about the child after birth.
Read →Flanders argues that remote access to abortion pills has enabled use later in pregnancy than the FDA-approved regimen. She discusses reported cases and criticizes the removal of in-person dispensing requirements.
Read →The Ukrainian company BioTexCom will hold a surrogacy fair from September 12–13 in Warsaw.
Read →One of the gravest evils facing the modern world is that of surrogacy. More than 100 years ago, Americans fought...
Read →The Polish Bishops’ Conference issued a statement on August 27 condemning surrogacy, calling it "evil and incompatible with the Christian faith and morality." The statement reportedly comes as some seek an expansion of commercial surrogacy in the country.
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 →“A click, signature, or brief review should not magically transfer responsibility from an AI developer or platform to a physician,” a reader tells STAT.
Read →The twins' parents didn't arrive, and it was painful to hear them cry with no one to hold them. She was sent home after delivery & the $20k payment never came.
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 →Down syndrome was not in the plans for Debora and Cameron Engen, but God had bigger plans when He gave them baby Charlotte. Now, Debora documents her family’s joyful journey in loving their first child, Charlotte, even after her surprising them by having Down syndrome. Debora speaks candidly on her platforms about how Charlotte has […] Source
Read →For more than two decades, the Center for Bioethics and Culture has warned that surrogacy is not simply another way to “build a family.” It is a practice that turns pregnancy into a service, places women’s bodies under contract, separates children from their birth mothers by design, and has created a global industry that profits […] The post The World Is Waking Up to the Harms of Surrogacy appeared first on The Center for Bioethics & Culture Network .
Read →Flanders argues that abortion pills should not be described as healthcare because their intended outcome ends prenatal life. She also presents safety and regulatory claims that require medical and primary-source review before republication as factual guidance.
Read →DeMarco defends Andorra's restrictions on abortion against international pressure to liberalize its laws. He argues that financing abortions abroad would undermine the country's stated commitment to protecting unborn life.
Read →Flanders critiques a published account of a woman who became pregnant while a surrogate was carrying another child for her family. She questions the account's framing of the subsequent abortion as necessary and discusses the overlap between infertility treatment, surrogacy, and abortion.
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 →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.
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