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Assistance in suicide, related legislation and objections to such practices.
Fewer than one in ten voters consider assisted suicide a priority for their local MP, a new mega-poll has revealed. The mega-poll of over 10,000 people, reported in the Daily Mail, revealed that, in every single constituency in Great Britain, a majority of voters do not want their MP to support a law pushed through […]
Read →A recent article in The Lancet Psychiatry provides a window into a philosophical tension at the heart of current assisted suicide debates. The article reflects on the case of Noelia Castillo, a Spanish woman who died by euthanasia earlier this year. Castillo experienced profound suffering throughout her life, including childhood neglect, sexual violence, psychiatric illness, […] The post can assisted suicide and suicide prevention really coexist? appeared first on Christian Medical Fellowship .
Read →An 87-year-old Canadian man was not properly sedated before his life was ended by euthanasia, as he repeatedly cried out “help me” while dying. The man from Ontario, known only as Mr D, had congestive heart failure and met the eligibility criteria to end his life under Canada’s assisted suicide and euthanasia regime, known as […]
Read →An eating disorders researcher has warned that bringing back the assisted suicide Bill using the Parliament Acts would also bring back a loophole that would put the lives of people with eating disorders at risk. Chelsea Roff, the founder of leading eating disorder charity Eat Breathe Thrive, said that Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide Bill, which […]
Read →COMMENT – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Press comment – Case of drug seller aiding suicides shows assisted suicide Bill must not be brought back Right To Life UK responds to Canadian ‘poison seller’, Kenneth Law, pleading guilty to aiding suicides by selling toxic chemical online. Catherine Robinson, spokesperson for Right To Life UK, a charity that […]
Read →The former Attorney General for England and Wales, Victoria Prentis, who is currently undergoing treatment for cancer, has said that her first-hand experience of radiotherapy has strengthened her views against assisted suicide. Baroness Prentis, who was also previously a Member of Parliament with tenures as Minister of State for Farming, Fisheries and Food, and Minister […]
Read →Apart from any further consideration of ultimate intention, euthanasia and assisted suicide are actions that directly and purposely seek to kill the patient for the “crime” of being ill or sick. They necessarily contradict our human dignity and cannot be ordered to the love of God and neighbor, including and especially the sick and suffering.
Read →In a newly released paper in the prestigious journal Bioethics, three prominent bioethicists argue that when someone decides to commit suicide via self-starvation and dehydration — known in euthanasia movement parlance as “voluntary stop eating and drinking” (VSED) — doctors should be allowed to “terminally sedate” the person trying to die when necessary to prevent intractable suffering. Patients who commit VSED are often not terminally ill. In fact, euthanasia organizations promote self-starvation to the elderly who are not dying and as a means of becoming eligible for assisted suicide where
Read →On April 24, a healthy 56-year-old woman died by suicide at the Pegasos clinic in Basel, Switzerland. Wendy Duffy, a former care worker from the West Midlands, U.K., was still grieving the loss of 23-year-old son Marcus, who died in 2022 after tragically choking to death when he was asleep after eating a sandwich. Duffy [...] The post Grieving mother dies in Swiss assisted suicide clinic first appeared on The Bridgehead .
Read →Four MPs who were drawn in the top seven at the House of Commons Private Members’ Bill ballot this morning voted in favour of the assisted suicide Bill in the last parliamentary session, adding weight to fears that the Bill might be brought back. Private Members’ Bills are bills that can be introduced by MPs […]
Read →In a major blow to Kim Leadbeater’s plans to revive her assisted suicide Bill, cross-party MPs from the Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrat parties who previously voted for the Bill, including former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Conservative MP Sir Jeremy Hunt, have told constituents they now oppose it being forced into law using the Parliament […]
Read →PRESS RELEASE – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Press release – Cross-party MPs who supported the assisted suicide Bill now oppose it being forced through via the Parliament Acts, suggesting Bill likely to fail if it comes back 20 May 2026 – In a major blow to Kim Leadbeater’s plans to revive her assisted suicide Bill, cross-party […]
Read →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 .
Read →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 […]
Read →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 […]
Read →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
Read →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 […]
Read →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 […]
Read →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 […]
Read →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 […]
Read →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
Read →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 .
Read →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 […]
Read →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 .
Read →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
Read →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
Read →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
Read →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 .
Read →For Immediate ReleaseApril 23, 2026Contact: comms@ohiolife.org Columbus, Ohio: Today, a bill advocating for a legal pathway for assisted suicide was… The post Ohio Right to Life Opposes Pro-Suicide Bill appeared first on Ohio Right to Life .
Read →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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