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Assistance in suicide, related legislation and objections to such practices.
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 →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 →“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 →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 →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
Read →(Washington, D.C.): Today, Governor Pritzker signed the “End-of-Life Options for Terminally Ill Patients Act,” making Illinois the 12th state, in addition to the District of Columbia, to legalize assisted suicide in the nation as of September 2026. Americans United for Life denounces this effort for what it is: a false effort to provide compassionate end-of-life care to vulnerable and terminally ill patients. John Mize, CEO of Americans United for Life, commented, “Today marks a devastating day for […] The post Governor Pritzker of Illinois Signs Deadly Assisted Suicide Bill appeared first on
Read →Across the country, there are thousands of medical professionals, hospitals, insurance agencies, businesses, and individuals who object to being involved in certain medical interventions that raise bioethical concerns, such as abortion or assisted suicide. Unfortunately, many feel pressure from the government, employers, or even patients to act against their consciences due to concerns of legal liability or professional sanctions. Since our country’s beginning, however, conscience rights, which defend […] The post The Right to Object: Conscience Protections in United States Law appeared first
Read →Not Dead Yet is proud to join Sean Curran and five other organizational plaintiffs (Delaware ADAPT, Freedom Center for Independent Living, United Spinal Association, National Council on Independent Living, Institute for Patients’ Rights) in a lawsuit against health agencies in Delaware and their use of the End of Life Options Act (EOLOA). Not Dead Yet […]
Read →Residency requirement to remain in New Jersey’s assisted suicide law, judge rules
Read →For some it may be unthinkable at any time of the year, let alone during the holiday season, that there is a cadre of relentless professional assisted suicide advocacy organizations seeking more efficient ways for people with disabilities to kill themselves during this national moment when Medicare, SNAP, and “streamlined” federal departments (i.e. HUD ) […]
Read →One of my greatest frustrations has been the general silence of suicide prevention organizations in the face of the legalization of assisted suicide in various jurisdictions. To me, this failure has been an abdication of such groups’ core responsibility because it ignores some suicides, does not oppose facilitation of the suicides of the ill and disabled, and does not grapple with the adverse impact that assisted suicide advocacy can have on suicidal people generally. That silence has now ended. The International Association for Suicide Prevention just issued a (not quite strong enough) positi
Read →Attempts to legalize assisted suicide and euthanasia are underway in several countries around the world. This includes France, the United Kingdom, Italy, and Ireland. Unfortunately, the pro-death movement seems to be gaining a certain amount of momentum. Just a few days ago, however, citizens of one country where lawmakers had already legalized assisted suicide pushed… The post Assisted Suicide Laws Fueling a Culture of Death appeared first on Human Life International .
Read →The right to throw out this bill Proponents of legalising assisted suicide (like Baroness Harman) have argued strenuously that the House of Lords must not stand in the way of a bill passed by the elected chamber — the House of Commons. Many have cited a principle called the “Salisbury doctrine”, which: “As generally understood […] The post The Lords is free to scrutinise, amend and reject the Leadbeater Bill appeared first on Care Not Killing .
Read →The Slovenian National Assembly tried to legalize assisted suicide. But the country’s voters had a different idea. From the Euractiv story: Slovenians on Sunday voted to suspend a new law to legalise assisted dying in a referendum held after critics mounted a campaign against the legislation. Around 53 percent of voters had rejected the law, while 47 percent voted in favour, meaning its implementation will be suspended for at least one year. Slovenia’s parliament had approved a law in July allowing assisted dying after a 2004 referendum supported it. But the new vote was called after a civil g
Read →FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ASSISTED SUICIDE: OPPONENTS EXPRESS CONCERNS OVER REJECTION OF AMENDMENTS DESIGNED TO PROTECT THE VULNERABLE & IMPROVE PALLIATIVE CARE Campaigners opposed to Scotland’s proposed assisted suicide law have expressed concerns after a raft of proposals to make the Bill safer and protect the vulnerable were thrown out by a Holyrood committee. Proposals rejected […] The post Concern over rejected protections as McArthur Bill Stage 2 nears end appeared first on Care Not Killing .
Read →The future that some of us predicted about assisted suicide deployed as a resource saver has come to the U.K. Even as the House of Commons has passed a legalization bill — currently being debated in the House of Lords — the country’s hospice system is collapsing. From the BBC story: Some 380 hospice beds out of around 2,000 lie empty in England because of financial pressures, say bosses. Hospice UK has told BBC News this is up from 300 a year ago and illustrates the severe challenges facing the sector. Beds are left empty to save money — since staffing and caring is costly — and so are unavail
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