The media is (properly) reporting that a Dutch doctor euthanized — i.e. killed — a sick twelve-year-old child (illness not reported). It is a “first” under a new Dutch law that allows euthanasia for children ages one to twelve. From the story in The Independent: In a latter to parliament, Dutch health minister Sophie Hermans said that the child had died last year but did not clarify their age, date of death or the illness that they suffered, according to broadcaster NOS. The law in the Netherlands was changed in 2014 to extend euthanasia to children under the age of 12 to allow them to “die wi
The Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying has now recommended permanently banning euthanasia for mental illness. MP Andrew Lawton joined me to explain why–and how thousands of lives will be saved as a result: As always, follow the podcast wherever you get your content: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Rumble, or YouTube. You can get a copy of my book How [...] The post WATCH: The “MAID” Report That Will Save Thousands of Lives | MP Andrew Lawton first appeared on The Bridgehead .
The Netherlands has euthanised a child under the age of twelve for the first time, reigniting debate over how far euthanasia laws should extend. Dutch […] The post Netherlands reports first child under 12 Euthanasia case appeared first on Family First NZ .
Over the past decade, many in the international press have openly wondered how Canada’s euthanasia regime went off the rails so swiftly and so grotesquely that other nations have decided against legalizing assisted suicide for fear of turning into Canada. There are, of course, many answers to that question, but one cannot be emphasized enough: Canada [...] The post Globe and Mail journalist calls 100k assisted suicides a ’cause for celebration’ first appeared on The Bridgehead .
When issues like abortion or euthanasia are debated, opponents issue warnings about the ‘slippery slope’ and predict that the ‘floodgates will open’. By this they mean that after either one is introduced, the grounds for it will expand, and the numbers availing of it will increase. Proponents deny either of these things will happen. For […] The post They said there would be no slippery slope first appeared on The Iona Institute .
The great victory of suicide activists has been to sanitize and medicalize the killing of human beings. We cannot use words like “suicide” or “killing”; we must instead use false, propagandistic language like “medical aid in dying” or, preferably, the official-sounding acronym “MAID.” Suicide and killing still make us uncomfortable, and so the terms have [...] The post ‘Help me!’: Botched euthanasia exposes the horrific reality behind ‘medical aid in dying’ first appeared on The Bridgehead .
People gather on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, the annual National March for Life on May 14, 2026. Thousands carried their pro-life signs and walked the streets of the capital to sound the alarm for an end to abortion and euthanasia in Canada. " data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.americamagazine.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/20260515T1616-CANADA-NATIONAL-MARCH-FOR-LIFE-1819846-scaled-e1781205746340.jpg?fit=780%2C477&ssl=1" /> The bishops described the state of MAID in Canada as “the world’s largest and fastest-growing euthanasia program," accounting for over 5 percent of deaths in t
According to an exclusive June 2 report from the Daily Mail, fewer than one in ten U.K. voters consider assisted suicide a priority for their Member of Parliament. The mega-poll of over 10,000 people comes as a blow to suicide activists, who are desperately trying to resurrect Labour MP Kim Leadbeater’s euthanasia bill that died in the House [...] The post Fewer than 10% of UK voters view euthanasia as a priority issue: new poll first appeared on The Bridgehead .
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 .
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 […]
By Marie Brousseau The elderly are immense gifts to society, yet too often today we see that our culture focuses on personal fulfillment, which can then lead to the neglect of people who are no longer deemed necessary or productive. This includes the sick and the elderly, who may feel lonely, abandoned, and isolated from… Read More » Compassion and Love Can Prevent Euthanasia The post Compassion and Love Can Prevent Euthanasia appeared first on ALL .
Mark Bradford Canada legalized MAID in 2016, and it has come to rank a close second behind the Netherlands in the number of deaths by euthanasia each year.
After having been pronounced dead, a patient woke up after a botched euthanasia attempt, leading to his doctor being placed under supervision by the province’s physicians’ regulator due to repeated failures to adhere to protocols and procedures. Dr James MacLean was the subject of two complaints relating to two cases involving Canada’s euthanasia and assisted […]
After one of his patients had his euthanasia assessment conducted outside a doughnut shop, an Ontario doctor has been placed under supervision by the province’s physicians’ regulator due to repeated failures to adhere to protocols and procedures. Dr James MacLean was the subject of two complaints relating to two cases involving Canada’s euthanasia and assisted […]
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.
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
Uruguay recently became the first country in Latin America to legalize euthanasia. Its General Assembly, the national legislature, approved legislation in October 2025 to allow euthanizing persons over 18 with a chronic, irreversible, and incurable disease that causes “unbearable suffering.” Over at... The post An Interview with Prof. Miguel Pastorino appeared first on The Human Life Review .
Serious moves are afoot to allow ending the lives of dementia patients, either by allowing them to be killed by lethal jab euthanasia if requested in a written advance directive (where legal), or to allow a document to be signed requiring caregivers to withhold sufficient food and water to sustain life. New Jersey seems to move subtly in the latter direction with a vaguely worded bill, S.B. 4186, that could open the door to intentional legal undernourishment. From the bill: It is the public policy of this State to respect the dignity, autonomy, and previously expressed wishes of individuals li
After a steady stream of horror stories, it looks like Ottawa may be finally ready to move against euthanasia for mental illness: As always, follow the podcast wherever you get your content: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Rumble, or YouTube. You can get a copy of my book How We Got Here: A Guide to Our Anti-Christian Culture at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, or at The Bridgehead, where you [...] The post WATCH: Finally Some Good News first appeared on The Bridgehead .
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 […]
The elderly are immense gifts to society, yet too often today we see that our culture focuses on personal fulfillment, which can then lead to the neglect of people who are no longer deemed necessary or productive. This includes the sick and the elderly, who may feel lonely, abandoned, and isolated from their own families. […] The post Compassion and Love Can Prevent Euthanasia appeared first on Celebrate Life Magazine .
“Nothing about us without us” The above is a link to the Substack article published below, by Not Dead Yet (USA) Board of Directors Member and Executive Director of Toujours Vivant-Not Dead Yet (CAN), Amy Hasbrouck. Get our words out of your mouth! Rumour has it that the head of Dying with Dignity, Helen […]
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
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation – which became eligible for state-assisted death a long time ago – has performed the function of propaganda arm for nearly every deadly and dangerous social cause of the past half-century, from abortion to “sex change” surgeries for minors. But its barely disguised advocacy for Canada’s euthanasia regime is second to none. [...] The post CBC’s euthanasia propaganda threatens the lives of the mentally ill first appeared on The Bridgehead .
“Euthanasia is a false solution to the drama of suffering, a solution that is not worthy of man. The real answer cannot be, in fact, to give death, as ‘gentle’ as this may be, but to testify to the love that helps us to face pain and agony in a humane way.” ― Pope Benedict… The post Canada’s Euthanasia Regime: Efficiency and Death vs. True Compassion and Dignity appeared first on Human Life International .
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
After a bear was euthanized in California because she paw-swiped a human who owned a house under which the bruin and her cubs were living, there was a popular outcry. Now, a bill has been put in the hopper in the California State Senate promoting “coexistence” between people and wild animals. From S.B. 1135: It is the policy of the state that the management of wildlife shall include an emphasis on the coexistence of humans and wildlife through department-led efforts to reduce, minimize, and mitigate conflicts. These efforts shall also seek to align with the state’s conservation, public safety,
It shouldn’t have to be said, but apparently it does, so here goes: Forcing doctors to kill people or to participate in killing people against the dictates of their conscience is Nazi-level bad. That fact is apparently not obvious enough to many Canadians. A new survey, recently published by Research Co., found that just “under two-in-five [...] The post Only 41% of Canadians support doctors who oppose euthanasia: new survey first appeared on The Bridgehead .
Chinese doctors murder and organ harvest political prisoners. As detailed in “Killed to Order,” a thoroughly researched new book by Epoch Times senior editor Jan Jekielek, political prisoners such as Falun Gong practitioners and Uygur Muslims are tissue-typed and killed to supply product for the country’s burgeoning transplant black market in human kidneys and livers. This is why the wait for a vital organ in China may be as short as a week, whereas it may take years in countries with ethical transplant systems. The Chinese Communist Party is an unmitigated tyranny, and the government deploys
Ontario’s Handbook on Certification of Death opens with a quote from the 1955 U.N. Handbook of Vital Statistics Methods: “It may truthfully be said that virtually every large-scale problem in preventive medicine has been brought to light – in part at least – by statistics of death, and further that the adequacy of remedial or curative action is, in [...] The post Ontario distorts cause of death statistics by refusing to list euthanasia first appeared on The Bridgehead .
