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Umbrella filter covering euthanasia and assisted-suicide topics; not a claim that their legal definitions are identical.
Medicine was created to heal and preserve life. Yet abortion, euthanasia and gender medicine increasingly redefine death and destruction as care, leaving the vulnerable dangerously exposed.
Read →Mary Zwicker, Europe Correspondent: A Dutch commission has confirmed that the euthanasia death of a two-year-old boy, the first case under the age of 12 in the Netherlands, was handled with “due care.” A commission from the Netherlands has just confirmed that the euthanizing of a child just under 24 months old was handled with “due [...] The post Two-year-old Dutch child euthanized appeared first on The Interim .
Read →In June 2025, British lawmakers voted 314 to 291 to pass an assisted suicide bill. On September 11, 2026, the House of Commons voted on a nearly identical bill.
Read →A Canadian woman in her 70s was approved for euthanasia after she lost the ability to cook for her family, a role she had prized as the matriarch. Unfortunately, she was almost killed before counseling helped her see that her life was not measured by the meals she served.
Read →Doctors who helped write guidelines for medically assisted death also describe a Holocaust survivor who delayed the procedure and continued a meaningful life
Read →Interim Staff: Bill C-218, the private member’s bill introduced by Tamara Jansen (Cloverdale-Langley City), that if passed would prevent Medical Assistance in Dying for those whose sole criteria is mental illness, is scheduled to be voted on in the House of Commons on Oct. 7.
Read →Since 2016, over 100,000 Canadian lives have been claimed by assisted suicide. The system has created no shortage of tragic tales: a 26-year-old with depression “ shopped around ” for a doctor to sign off on his death; a disabled man applied for medical assistance in dying because he feared going homeless; multiple veterans have been offered MAiD on the phone while attempting to access healthcare.
Read →Opponents of government-backed assisted suicide have rightly argued that the program always, invariably, leads to a slippery slope of government-backed euthanasia. Those opponents have been proven right time and again, but no more so than with Canada's Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) program.
Read →Alex Schadenberg Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Dr Gary Rodin Dr Gary Rodin and Dr Madeline Li, who are both professors of psychiatry at the University of Toronto, co-wrote an article that was published in the New York Times on October 5 titled: Assisted Death is not a choice of last resort in Canada. Rodin and Li begin the article by explaining that both of them work with patients with advanced cancer, both have counselled and assessed patients for the "procedure" and one of them has administered the drugs (poison) to end a persons life.
Read →The global mushrooming of the culture of death we are witnessing did not happen overnight. Nations did not suddenly decide that human life was disposable.
Read →Respect for human life seems to be riding a conveyor belt of progress on a fixed trajectory toward destruction.
Read →The former TV personality, Dame Esther Rantzen, died at home with her family months after ceasing cancer treatments.
Read →Draconian COVID restrictions may have forced the public to question whether the government and the healthcare system can really be trusted with powers of life and death.
Read →Alex Schadenberg Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Last week I reported on the failed Tennessee lethal injection execution of Christa Pike. I explained how the concerns with failed execution deaths also apply to failed euthanasia and/or assisted suicide deaths.
Read →A grandmother’s disputed death has put Canada’s euthanasia regime under fresh scrutiny, as the Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) program passes 100,000 deaths with a further expansion slated for 2027.
Read →Whatever happened to medicine saving lives? How is it that so many can claim that abortion, the intentional killing of a baby not yet born, constitutes health care?
Read →Media Advisory Bill C-218, the bill to prevent MAiD for Mental Illness as a sole criteria, to go to a vote on October 7. Bilingual Press Conference: Wednesday, October 7, at 11 am Parliamentary Press Gallery - Room 135B West Block The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition (EPC) is hosting a press conference at the Parliamentary Press Gallery in Ottawa on October 7 at 11 am.
Read →Doctors Gary Rodin and Madeline Li shared fears over increasing cases of euthanasia approvals, as one woman almost ended her life after she lost her ability to cook.
Read →“It is impossible to regard causing death as something normal. What is legal is not necessarily moral.” ― Pope Leo XIV, Meeting with the Staff and Sick Community of Accueil Notre Dame On Sunday afternoon, September 27, Pope Leo XIV visited the Accueil Notre-Dame, the hospital inside the shrine at Lourdes where sick pilgrims are… The post Pope Leo XIV Rejects Euthanasia as False Compassion appeared first on Human Life International .
Read →This essay was originally published on October 2, 2026 at Stepping Out of the Boat, Ed Mechmann’s Public Policy Blog. It is re-posted with permission of the author.
Read →Wesley J. Smith appeared on the Three Whisky Happy Hour Podcast to discuss the threat to human exceptionalism and dignity posed by assisted suicide and the nature rights movement.
Read →Paul Braune watched calmly as the police ransacked his rectory office in Lubetal, Germany. Arrested by SS chief Reinhard Heydrich himself on August 12, 1941, Braune was accused of having “sabotaged measures of the regime and the Party in an irresponsible manner.” Officers rifled through his papers—from the German Confessing Church and the Association of [...] The post The pastors who defied Hitler’s euthanasia regime first appeared on The Bridgehead .
Read →Backlash was swift, with one person commenting, "People should be able to walk into a church at their lowest point and find a reason to keep living."
Read →In the Netherlands recently, a severely disabled child just under 2 years old was euthanized . Euthanasia is legal in that country: Originally, when the law was first passed in 2002, you had to be able to give consent to be euthanized, but since 2024 even those who cannot give co
Read →Though the numbers are alarming, VADRB's report views the increase in deaths as positive, calling assisted dying "highly valued and treasured by Victorians."
Read →When Kristin Logan was diagnosed with stage 4 ovarian cancer, she was told her chances of survival were slim.
Read →Legalized homicide is now the cause of one out of every 20 Canadian deaths. The country’s “medical assistance in dying” regime—MAID—has been in effect for 10 years and has taken an estimated 100,000 lives.
Read →Alex Schadenberg Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Dan Hart wrote an article that was published in the Washington Stand on September 29, 2026 about Canada's euthanasia law. Hart begins his article by commenting on Brigitte Stegemann (83) who was a grand mother and a Christian who recently died by euthanasia.
Read →The drugs used in executions are often the same as in assisted suicide/euthanasia; these deaths are often less peaceful and quick than many realize.
Read →On Wednesday, September 30, Tennessee had it’s second consecutive botched lethal injection execution, this time it was Christa Pike. The concerns related to botched execution deaths also apply to botched euthanasia and/or assisted suicide deaths.
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