ASSISTED SUICIDE: MSPs MAKE HEAVY CRITICISMS OF CONTROVERSIAL BILL AFTER RAISING FEARS OF MEDICAL PROFESSIONS Heavy criticisms of the assisted suicide Bill going through the Scottish Parliament have been made by MSPs scrutinising the proposed law. Worried politicians have now instructed the health committee to write to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of […] The post MSPs to seek UN view on McArthur Bill compatibility with disability convention appeared first on Care Not Killing .
Americans United for Life (AUL) is pleased to share our 2025 Third Quarter Life Litigation Report. The report tracks major bioethics cases in federal and state courts across the country. These cases range from early life issues, such as abortion and in vitro fertilization, to end-of-life questions, such as assisted suicide. The goal of the report is to provide an overview […] The post AUL’s 2025 Q3 Life Litigation Report appeared first on Americans United for Life .
Head of Public Policy Tim Dieppe on the expert evidence warning peers about the assisted suicide bill The House of Lords’ assisted suicide bill select committee has now concluded its hearings and published a report of the sessions. The committee met on eight occasions and heard evidence from over 40 witnesses. The published report of ... The post Multiple experts warn House of Lords assisted suicide bill is bad law appeared first on Christian Concern .
For immediate release ASSISTED SUICIDE: BILL ‘SPIRALLING OUT OF CONTROL’ AS ESSENTIAL SAFEGUARDS REJECTED BY HOLYROOD COMMITTEE Scotland’s assisted suicide Bill is “spiralling out of control”, campaigners claim, after MSPs rejected key safeguards for young and vulnerable people and those living in poverty, during a Holyrood committee meeting. A proposed amendment by MSP Claire Baker […] The post McArthur Bill “spiralling out of control” appeared first on Care Not Killing .
Disabled Canadian Roger Foley is fighting for his life — and his right to live with dignity. Instead of providing in-home care, health officials have repeatedly pressured him to choose euthanasia under Canada’s “Medical Assistance in Dying” program. Life Legal is standing beside Roger to hold the system accountable and defend the value of every human life. The post They’re pressuring him to die — and calling it “care.” appeared first on .
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ASSISTED SUICIDE: CAMPAIGNERS WARN THOSE WITH YEARS TO LIVE WILL QUALITY FOR EARLY DEATH UNDER NEW LAW MSPs have refused to limit assisted suicide to people genuinely close to death – meaning those with decades left to live could be considered under the proposed legislation going through Holyrood. The Scottish Parliament’s Health […] The post McArthur Bill Committee refuses to limit eligibility to those close to death appeared first on Care Not Killing .
The Illinois Legislature has just passed an assisted suicide legalization bill, tying a black bow along with New York’s legalization bill passed a few months ago. Both measures still await signing by the states’ respective governors, which I fear is quite likely as the death agenda is firmly ensconced in blue state liberal/progressive policy on assisted suicide. Should the bills get signed into law, more people will live in jurisdictions (including three of our most populous: California, New York, and Illinois) that validate some suicides and allow doctors to facilitate such deaths than live i
Assisted suicide is not yet legal in Scotland — I have traveled there three times to fight that agenda — but it is a looming threat again. And now, an amendment to the legalization bill has been proposed that would prohibit prevention efforts at or near places where suicidal people’s lives would be ended. From the ADF International press release: A Scottish parliamentarian and member of the Health Committee, Patrick Harvie MSP, has proposed an amendment to Scotland’s controversial “assisted suicide” bill that would criminalise discussion of suicide prevention within a large, undefined public a
The Illinois State Senate, just passed an assisted suicide bill, dressed as a food preparation bill, to make it easier for disabled people to die, not to live. In this worst possible national moment, Illinois proponents decided in the interest of vulnerable Illinoisans that now was the time to sneak an assisted suicide bill amendment […]
Scottish Green Party’s Patrick Harvie proposes a censored “buffer zone” around facilities where assisted suicides might take place, preventing family members or concerned individuals from changing a person’s mind Move echoes abortion “buffer zones” law enacted in Scotland last year, under which a grandmother was arrested for offering a conversation EDINBURGH (29 October 2025) – A Scottish parliamentarian and member of the Health Committee, Patrick […] The post Scottish politician seeks to criminalise “influencing” a person’s decision about assisted suicide appeared first on Alliance Defending
The physician-assisted suicide debate is not a discussion about legalizing suicide or even about granting people the legal ability to assist in another’s suicide. Rather, the physician-assisted suicide movement is about an alleged “right” to end one’s life with the help of licensed medical practitioners, whose field is predicated on preserving life.
When assisted suicide is first proposed for legalization, we are assured by death activists that strict guidelines will protect against abuse. But they don’t mean it. Once the laws pass, the supposed protections — which are always flaccid to begin with — are soon redefined by activists and the media as “barriers,” et voila, the laws are soon loosened. It’s all a con, but people seem to fall for it every time. This pattern can be seen vividly playing out in Victoria, Australia. The state was the first in that country to legalize assisted suicide, and now the government is making more people eli
As the proponents of assisted suicide strive to legalize it in Massachusetts, we should take another look at their arguments and the deceptions therein. The battle over assisted suicide and euthanasia is not over; advocates of assisted suicide are not resting. While earnest and engaged Americans are focused on the economy, an upcoming presidential primary, and impending Supreme Court battles over the health insurance mandate and same-sex marriage, the culture of death continues to advance largely unnoticed along a front that some had supposed was dormant Source
Assisted suicide and euthanasia is a confusing subject. However, this subject will greatly affect future generations as we continue the slide down the slippery slope. Please carefully consider all factors before making a judgment. We have compiled a list of questions that many have asked on this subject and our answers address these provocative questions. Source
Assisted suicide was offered to my friend Jane Allen. She had an eating disorder. (OPINION: Reprinted in full below from the October 2, 2025 edition of The Denver Post) By Matt Vallière | Guest Commentary PUBLISHED: October 2, 2025 at 5:01 AM MDT The big selling point of assisted suicide laws is that they are supposedly compassionate […]
Euthanasia/assisted suicide “protective guidelines” don’t really protect against abuse. They mostly serve as window dressings to make people comfortable with killing the sick. And soon after legalization, the vaunted protections are redefined by activists and the media as “barriers” to death, which become the pretext for loosening the already slack guidelines. The speed at which that happens varies, but the pattern rarely fails. Here’s an example. In Canada, a person is supposed to explicitly request and consent to being killed by a lethal jab. But a dementia patient was recently euthanized at
Once we decided that killing is an acceptable answer to suffering, the kind of suffering that qualifies us to be made dead continually expands. Now, an elderly British couple have committed joint assisted suicide at a Swiss termination clinic to avoid future widowhood and increasing fragility — in other words, to eliminate future suffering. From the Daily Record story: A devoted couple who “couldn’t bear to be apart” have died together at a Swiss assisted dying clinic after sending emails to their relatives to let them know. Neither Michael Posner, 97, nor his wife Ruth, 96, had a terminal ill
Public Policy researcher explains why opposing assisted suicide is a gospel issue Last week, Labour peer Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe provoked outrage when he appeared to support assisted suicide as a method of population control. This was during the second reading in the Lords of Kim Leadbeater’s bill for legalising assisted suicide. You can watch ... The post Assisted suicide is a first-order gospel issue appeared first on Christian Concern .
I have always believed that liberals should be leading opponents of assisted suicide. After all, two of the core tenets of liberalism are (supposed to be) protecting vulnerable people from exploitation and promoting equality among all people. But other than disability-rights activists, most liberals tend to support legalization based on “choice.” Mega author J.K. Rowling, of Harry Potter fame, is definitely a political liberal. Indeed, her activism pushing against gender ideology is founded in protecting children and securing women’s private spaces. Now, with legalization having passed the U.K
It has been another greatly encouraging day in the House of Lords. Even on the most conservative estimate, around two-thirds of speeches expressed opposition to assisted suicide or at least to the Leadbeater Bill in its present form. In practice, Peers avoid divisions at Second Reading (it is almost 20 years since a Private Member’s […] The post Peers pile further criticism upon Leadbeater Bill on second day of debate appeared first on Care Not Killing .
Demonstrators placed hundreds of pairs of shoes outside Parliament today to solemnly represent the hundreds, if not thousands, of people who would die each year by state-sanctioned suicide if the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill is made law. The government’s impact assessment of Kim Leadbeater’s bill estimates that between 164 and 647 people ... The post Hundreds of pairs of shoes in demo against assisted suicide appeared first on Christian Concern .
Date: Friday 19th September 2025 Release time: Immediate Care Not Killing again welcomes the many detailed speeches in the House of Lords, at the conclusion of the final day of Second Reading, that continue to expose that the assisted dying bill is strewn with problems and has no “absolute right” to become law. Dr Gordon […] The post Lords give another mauling to problem-strewn assisted dying bill that has no absolute right to become law appeared first on Care Not Killing .
ALS is a catastrophic terminal disease that, within a few years of diagnosis (the physicist Stephen Hawking was an exception), eventually causes total paralysis. It is also a tragic condition that euthanasia/assisted suicide activists zealously wield to justify killing as an acceptable answer to suffering. Now, the understandable fear of ALS is being deployed by academic advocates as a means of breaking the (U.S.) requirement for a six-month terminal diagnosis and self-administration in assisted suicide. In jurisdictions where MAiD [the euphemism for assisted suicide that seeks to turn life-en
Date: Friday 12th September 2025 Release time: Immediate Care Not Killing welcomes the many detailed speeches in the House of Lords, at the conclusion of the first day of Second Reading, that have exposed the “deeply flawed” assisted dying bill and highlighted the dangers of changing the law. Dr Gordon Macdonald, CEO of Care […] The post Lords monster “deeply flawed” assisted dying bill appeared first on Care Not Killing .
When assisted suicide/euthanasia is legalized, people who are eligible to be killed because they are seriously ill may become objectified by their societies. For example, they may be thought of as so many organ farms to be harvested after their lives are ended. Such objectification of the sick can be infectious. In California, there is a new research program called Last Gift that seeks people with “life-shortening” conditions who also have HIV to be experimented on — not to find cures or ways to extend their lives, but to better understand the virus. From the Last Gift research subject solicit
Date: Thursday 11th September 2025 Release time: Immediate Millions of adults want their family doctor to opt out of participating in assisted dying if the law is changed, finds a major new poll from Care Not Killing (CNK). Asked if they agreed or disagreed with the statement: “I would personally prefer to have a […] The post Millions want their doctor to “opt out” of assisted dying if the law is changed, finds poll appeared first on Care Not Killing .
Date: Wednesday 10th September 2025 Release time: Immediate Assisted dying/assisted is not a priority for the public, who want the government to cut waiting lists, improve cancer care, fund mental health services, provide assistance for disabled people and children with special educational needs, and fund improved palliative and hospice care. In fact, legalising assisted […] The post Assisted Dying not a priority for public, finds poll appeared first on Care Not Killing .
The California Legislature is entering its final week of floor sessions, and the stakes for families, children, and churches could not be higher. Lawmakers are rushing to push through some of the most radical bills we have seen all year, measures that undermine parental rights, enshrine abortion and assisted suicide, advance harmful transgender ideology, and […] The post Final Showdown in Sacramento: 12 Dangerous Bills Threaten Life, Family, and Liberty first appeared on California Family Council .
Date: Friday 29th August 2025 Release time: Immediate UPDATE – Responding to the Nuffield Trust’s Report: “Assisted dying in practice: International experiences and implications for health and social care, Dr Gordon Macdonald, CEO for Care Not Killing commented: “Yesterday we were provided with embargoed extracts of a report, which were wrongly identified as originating […] The post Care Not Killing disappointed with Nuffield Trust Report on assisted dying appeared first on Care Not Killing .
An article in the Daily Mail sounds the alarm that permitting infant euthanasia — i.e., infanticide — is under serious consideration in Canada: Canada‘s assisted suicide laws have continued rapidly expanding in recent years, with a group of doctors now pushing for disabled newborn babies to be euthanized.…As assisted deaths have become a major part of Canada’s health care system, the Quebec College of Physicians suggested legalizing euthanasia for infants born severely ill. Canada has jumped so enthusiastically into the euthanasia abyss that I have little doubt that infanticide will eventually
