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Intentional life-ending practices described as euthanasia or medical assistance in dying.
Tuns summarizes reporting on British Columbia's euthanasia oversight records, distinguishing documentation errors from more serious compliance concerns. The article presents critics' arguments for stronger independent oversight and more transparent reporting of enforcement actions.
Read →Drawing on his family's experience caring for relatives with Alzheimer's disease, Smith argues that dementia should not diminish a person's claim to compassionate care. This excerpt introduces his criticism of changing end-of-life attitudes and links readers to the complete column at The Epoch Times.
Read →Archbishop Renzo Pegoraro, president of the Pontifical Academy for Life appointed by Pope Leo XIV, suggested that Catholics might morally consent to an 'imperfect' euthanasia law to prevent more permissive legislation, a stance that contradicts Pope John Paul II's teaching against supporting such laws. Pegoraro's views, including his previous statements on contraception, have been controversial and diverge from established Church bioethical doctrine.
Read →The Netherlands has recorded its first case of euthanasia performed on a child between the ages of one and twelve since the 2024 expansion of euthanasia legislation allowing the procedure for minors with incurable illnesses causing unbearable suffering. The case was reviewed by a commission and submitted to the Public Prosecutor’s Office to determine if the physician acted according to the law, though the child's age and illness have not been disclosed.
Read →Disability rights organizations petitioned a federal judge to block the Illinois assisted suicide law scheduled to take effect on September 12, 2026, arguing it violates the Americans with Disabilities Act and discriminates against disabled people due to potential physician bias and coercion. Additionally, Chicago Archbishop Cardinal Blase Cupich and two orders of Catholic nuns filed a lawsuit claiming the law infringes on constitutional protections for free speech and religious freedom, while a judge is expected to decide on the law's legality before its implementation date.
Read →Pope Francis once convinced Maria Consuelo Cordoba not to undergo euthanasia, and after years of struggle, she may now get the health care she needs.
Read →While killing newborns through euthanasia is not yet legal in Canada, the proposal has already been recommended in Parliament.
Read →Register for the Bring Roger Home Campaign Town Hall Meeting. Date: Wednesday September 16 at 2 pm (Eastern Time), 11 am (Pacific Time) ( Zoom event Registration Link ) Join our speakers: Roger Foley Alex Schadenberg, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, Lino Defacendis, Life Care Network, Kathy Matusiak Costa, Compassionate Community Care. It will also be Roger's 51st birthday. There is now a plan to bring Roger home. ( Zoom event Registration Link ) After almost a decade living in a London Ontario hospital and experiencing multiple series issues related to his care, and being denied direct
Read →Alex Schadenberg Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition On February 6, 2026, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed the assisted suicide bill with the law caming into effect on August 5 . This is terrible news as it will lead to the deaths of many people, at a vulnerable time of their life by lethal poison. To increase the demand for assisted suicide the New York Times published an article on September 3 by Emma Goldberg promoting a new assisted suicide "business". Goldberg describes it as a business "start-up" for assisted suicide. In reality the article is providing free ad
Read →Alex Schadenberg Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition John Pring reported for the Disability New Service on September 3, 2026 that the British government admitted that disabled people may face 'subtle pressure' to choose assisted suicide if the assisted suicide bill becomes law. Pring reported that: The impact assessment was published by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) last Thursday (August 28). The assessment’s publication came on the same day that prime minister Andy Burnham wrote to Labour MPs to say he would not vote on the b
Read →MPs and campaigners have called on the Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, to prevent Dr Nitschke from being allowed into the UK to demonstrate his Kairos ‘suicide collar’ device this weekend ahead of the Second Reading vote on the Edwards assisted suicide Bill. Philip Nitschke, the controversial founder of euthanasia organisation Exit International, nicknamed ‘Dr Death’, […]
Read →Alex Schadenberg Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition I have good news. Justice Carissima Mathen denied Claire Brosseau and Dying With Dignity an injunction to approve Brosseau to be killed by euthanasia (MAiD) based on mental illness as the sole criteria. Brosseau lives in Toronto Ontario. ( Link to the court decision ). The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition (EPC) intervened in the Brosseau case and participated in the hearings on July 21/22, 2026. ( Read ). The cost to intervene in a court case is prohibitive. EPC continues to need at least $20,000 in donations to cover ou
Read →In this episode of Solid Ground, Simon starts in France noting its new euthanasia law forces care facilities and private religious establishments to participate even if against their beliefs. He also notes the dark irony of France also allowing young people to be euthanised, but is simultaneously debating a social media. The post Solid Ground – 3 September 2026 appeared first on Family First NZ .
Read →In this episode of Family Matters, how is it that euthanasia advocates always talk about autonomy and yet, at the same time, want to force doctors, nurses, and hospices to be part of something they strongly reject? The post Family Matters – Wesley J. Smith On Autonomy For Some, Not All appeared first on Family First NZ .
Read →A major article in the Journal of Health & Biomedical Law argues that doctors have an ethical obligation to inform patients about voluntary stop eating and drinking (VSED) as a means to hasten death and to provide palliative care to ease the suffering caused by this method, even if it conflicts with their moral conscience. The article also supports the use of advance directives to refuse nourishment during VSED and suggests that caregivers should deny food or drink if the patient becomes confused and requests it, framing this as a duty under the principle of non-abandonment.
Read →Gordon Friesen By Gordon Friesen President, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition One of our great friends and allies, Wesley J. Smith, has recently written about the British Medical Association's newly minted policy and other bioethics articles which require doctors to collaborate with patients who are attempting to kill themselves through hunger and thirst. This practice is commonly euphemized as ‘voluntarily stopping eating and drinking’, which ungainly expression is then replaced with the more slick-sounding acronym ‘VSED’. However we must unfortunately note (as usual) that the most important fa
Read →The accessible opening presents a family's allegation that an Ontario grandmother's assisted death conflicted with her expressed beliefs and wishes. It identifies the family's public account as its source, but the full report was not available for review.
Read →Alex Schadenberg Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Do not ask me about euthanasia . I am not interested. I was contacted by a woman who called us on behalf of her elderly Aunt who was receiving treatment in a hospital in London Ontario. The Aunt wanted to know if there was anything that could be done to stop the MAiD team from asking her if she wanted MAiD. The woman told me that her Aunt was asked, if she wanted euthanasia twice, in a pretty persuasive manner, and she said NO. The woman told me that her Aunt was very upset because the person in the bed next to her was sold e
Read →Smith joins Simon O'Connor to defend clinicians' freedom to decline participation in assisted suicide and euthanasia. The discussion also challenges a consumer-service model of medicine that treats professionals as obliged to provide any requested intervention.
Read →Alex Schadenberg and Marcel Lemmen are running a half-marathon on September 27, 2026 to raise money for the Compassionate Community Charity (CCC) and/or the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition. This is the seventh consecutive year that Alex and Marcel are running the half-marathon fund-raiser for CCC and EPC. The money raised for CCC from the previous 6 half-marathon runs combined is almost $90,000. Donations from the half-marathon (21.1 km) run are very much appreciated. The Compassionate Community Care (CCC) charity operates a help-line, a training program for visiting seniors
Read →Meghan Schrader By Meghan Schrader Meghan is a disability activists and a member of the EPC-USA board. As I’ve said, I think that one of the most effective ways to prevent euthanasia is for euthanasia opponents to be thinking about what kind of world we want people with disabilities to live in, and do what we can to link euthanasia prevention to creating a better world. Hence, I think it’s valuable for euthanasia opponents to be aware of the trend towards broad re-institutionalization that is happening in the United States right now, especially since we know that coerced institutionaliza
Read →Australia's Northern Territory has legalized assisted suicide again, more than 30 years since it had first been legal for about one year.
Read →Alex Schadenberg Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Australia's Northern Territory I have sad news. Australia's Northern Territory was the first jurisdiction in the world to legalize assisted suicide between 1996 - 97, and once again has legalized assisted suicide. Joseph Hathaway-Wilson reported for ABC News Australia on August 27 that: The Northern Territory Parliament has passed a bill legalising voluntary assisted dying (VAD) in the NT, with significant restrictions on accessing, and initiating conversations about, the practice. The NT is now both the first and last
Read →Dr. Mark Komrad The following comments were provided by Dr. Mark Komrad, M.D., DFAPA, ACP, Faculty of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins, University of Maryland, Tulane, and LSU You may have heard that France’s National Assembly overrode their Senate’s objection to a proposed euthanasia law , and legalized it. A review by the French constitutional court has since upheld it, with a some of important clarifications, a couple of which are disturbing: Like Canada and Benelux countries, the law allows both US style assisted suicide (oral prescription) AND euthanasia (IV lethal injection by doctor). [In all
Read →Alex Schadenberg Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Philip Nitschke, also known as Dr Death, who invented a suicide pod, stated in an interview, last year, that the suicide pod will be ready for use in Britain if assisted suicide is legalized. Sanchez Manning reported for the Times on June 20, 2025 that: Nitschke, who invented the pod, which uses gas to assist death, said: “As soon as we know that the final legislation is in place we’ll start enthusiastically pursuing the option of using the device in the UK. “We’ll be looking to find UK-registered doctors to assist and of cou
Read →France’s highest constitutional authority has carved out conscience protections for Catholic institutions and pharmacists, which was welcomed by Archbishop Laurent Ulrich of Paris. The post French council protects conscience rights for Catholics, pharmacists as euthanasia law takes effect appeared first on The Catholic Thing .
Read →The decision does not overturn France’s legalization of euthanasia. Rather, it establishes a boundary around the institutions and individuals expected to participate in the new system—and, in doing so, gives religious freedom a significant foothold within a law that had initially offered little room for conscientious dissent The post France legalizes euthanasia but also safeguards the right to conscientious objection appeared first on ZENIT - English .
Read →Nora Kenney Mittiga Gen Z remains surprisingly attached to our culture’s almost obsessive commitment to individual autonomy, clinging to a worldview that treats suffering and dependence as problems to be eliminated.
Read →Alex Schadenberg Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Disability leaders opposing assisted suicide On December 12, 2025 w e reported that Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signed assisted suicide bill SB 9 into law. The Illinois assisted suicide law is scheduled to go into effect on September 12, 2026. On August 13, 2026 we reported that a group of Illinois physicians, a Catholic bishop and a faith-based nursing home filed a federal lawsuit seeking to block Illinois’ assisted suicide law before it goes into effect. On August 24, 2026 Molly Sweeney reported for WCIA news that Illinoi
Read →By Odile Marcotte Retired Professor Department of Computer Science, UQAM and a Euthanasia Prevention Coalition board member. Previous article: France legalized euthanasia. What's next ( Link ). Odile Marcotte After the National Assembly of France adopted the law on “aid in dying,” ( Article Link ) five people or groups asked the Constitutional Council (the French equivalent of the Supreme Court of Canada) to state whether this law was constitutional. In its decision published on August 14, 2026, the Constitutional Council did not reject the law or any part of it but asked for three changes ( L
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