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Assistance in suicide, related legislation and objections to such practices.
JB Pritzker signed a law letting Illinois doctors hand dying patients a lethal prescription. Buried inside his law was a threat aimed at every Catholic doctor, nurse, and religious sister in...
Read →An elderly woman in Canada was approved for 'medical assistance in dying,' or MAiD, simply because she could no longer cook for her family.
Read →Editorial note: The terms euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide are often used interchangeably and will be in this article. Euthanasia refers to a healthcare worker intentionally and directly administering drugs to kill a patient.
Read →Canada will prevent the expansion of its assisted suicide and euthanasia law that would have permitted individuals to end their lives solely on the basis of having a mental illness, according to Canada’s Justice Minister, Sean Fraser. While Canada legislated in March 2021 to enable assisted suicide and euthanasia for those whose sole underlying medical […]
Read →Paul Tuns: Ontario Superior Court Justice Carissima Mathen denied Claire Brosseau and Dying With Dignity an injunction to approve Brosseau to be killed by Medical Assistance in Dying based on mental illness as the sole criteria. Brosseau, a 49-year-old Toronto woman, is an actress and comedian, who filed a motion in May seeking a constitutional [...] The post Ontario court denies application for MAID for mental illness appeared first on The Interim .
Read →A federal court has stopped Illinois from penalizing Catholic hospitals and religious health workers who refuse to take part in the state’s assisted-suicide law, including a requirement that they tell terminally ill patients how to obtain lethal medication. U.S.
Read →Advance requests allowing doctors to administer euthanasia without the person's final expressed consent could be the next MAID battleground
Read →After a decade of widening access to assisted dying, Canada announced it will not extend medical assistance in dying (MAID) to people whose only condition […] The post Canada halts euthanasia for mental illness but opens another door appeared first on Family First NZ .
Read →Illinois Catholic hospitals and religious healthcare workers can’t be penalized for refusing to inform terminally ill patients of assisted suicide options, a new court order ruled. The Medical Aid in Dying bill, signed into law on Dec.
Read →Until Canada’s mental-health care systems up their game, medically assisted death for mental illness alone is out of the question
Read →Multiple religious objectors are suing the state over its newly instituted assisted suicide regime.
Read →New South Wales healthcare workers who object to abortion and voluntary assisted dying face growing pressure, raising serious questions about conscience rights, employment and moral injury.
Read →To understand just how slipshod Canada's euthansia program has gotten, two Canadian psychiatrists, Gary Rodin and Madeline Li, recently exposed some doozy cases.
Read →Canada's Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) program has been a masterclass in the slippery slope. Originally pushed as a measure that would provide terminally ill patients a "death with dignity," it has become a wholesale euthanasia machine that kills more people in Canada than die by gun violence in the United States and outpaces the euthanasia of dogs in the nation.
Read →Alex Schadenberg Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Justice Minister Sean Fraser and Health Minister Marjorie Michel stated on October 7, 2026 that the federal government will introduce legislation, that will prevent the implementation of euthanasia for mental illness as a sole criteria. However, the government legislation will also permit euthanasia by advanced request.
Read →The recent case of Christa Pike, whose execution failed despite the administration of lethal drugs, has raised serious questions about the reliability of the very substances commonly used in assisted suicide cases overseas. Isabel Jackson explores the reality that no lethal drug can guarantee the outcome campaigners promise.
Read →Canada will not expand its controversial Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) euthanasia program to individuals whose sole condition is mental illness, Justice Minister Sean Fraser announced Wednesday. The post Canada Halts Plan to Expand MAID Euthanasia for Mental Illness appeared first on Breitbart .
Read →Presentation at the EPC Press Conference on October 7 in support of Bill C-218 Alex Schadenberg My name is Alex Schadenberg and I am the Executive Director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition. EPC opposes (MAiD), also known as euthanasia, as it constitutes the killing of a human being.
Read →Canada has indefinitely postponed plans to allow people whose sole medical condition is a mental illness to access medical assistance in dying (MAID) , following concerns about whether safeguards are sufficient to protect vulnerable people. The federal government announced the decision on Wednesday, abandoning plans to extend eligibility from March 2027.
Read →Canada will now allow people to use advance directives to request MAiD, even if they are no longer mentally capable of making that decision.
Read →Mental illness will not be allowed as the sole reason for medical assistance in dying, but Carney’s government wants to make it easier to get advance approval, writes Rupa Subramanya.
Read →Legislation will be introduced in the coming weeks to stop the expansion of Medical Assistance in Dying to those with mental illness; meanwhile, a Conservative bill banning mental illness as the sole reason was defeated.
Read →The government has debated expanding its medical assistance in dying program for those suffering solely from mental health issues.’
Read →The Canadian MAID euthanasia program has killed more than 100,000 people and it’s morally repugnant – deserving the condemnation it has earned. But reportedly it will not be extended to mentally ill people – at least according to a government announcement.
Read →Commentary by ‘Ala Pomelile On 30 September, the state of Tennessee tried to execute Christa Pike. It failed.
Read →The government has debated expanding its medical assistance in dying program for those suffering solely from mental health issues.
Read →The Canadian government said it would indefinitely extend the prohibition on medical assistance in dying where mental illness is the sole underlying condition
Read →Euthanasia deaths in Queensland, Australia, have increased by 57.14% in two years as a record 836 people died in 2025-26, amid calls from the official review board to consider changing the eligibility criteria. According to the ‘Queensland Voluntary Assisted Dying Review Board Annual Report’, there were 532 euthanasia deaths from 1 July 2023 to 30 […]
Read →Canada had planned to expand its medically assisted dying law by March 2027 to cover people who have mental illness as their sole condition.
Read →Two psychiatrists have penned an op-ed in the The New York Times explaining why they no longer fully support Canada's Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) program, saying that it is no longer the "last resort" it was meant to be.
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