Category: Assisted Suicide

By Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Editor’s note. Alex Schadenberg and Wesley J. Smith are teaming up to address the American and Canadian experience with euthanasia and assisted suicide at the 2023 National Right to Life Convention. For more information, go to https://nrlconvention.com/product-category/2023-registration. Tina Turner died a natural death on Wednesday May 24, but in her …

By Right to Life U.K Parliament’s influential Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) met Wednesday afternoon to consider the question of ‘assisted dying’ from a human rights perspective.  The Select Committee, which comprises members of both the House of Commons and House of Lords, heard oral evidence from four ‘expert’ panelists: Paul Bowen KC and James Strachan KC, barristers …

By Bridget Sielicki  The downward spiral of Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD), its legalized assisted suicide and euthanasia laws, appears to be showing no signs of slowing down as recent headlines indicate a growing acceptance of MAiD as a solution for poverty. While advocates initially argued that MAiD laws would be tightly guarded and only available to terminally …

By The Christian Institute It is “not fiction” to suggest that many vulnerable people would be pressured to end their lives if the UK legalised assisted suicide, a senior columnist has said. Writing in The Times, columnist and former editor of The Sunday Telegraph Dominic Lawson said that the film Plan 75 “confronts its audience with a disturbingly …

By Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition CTV News Videojournalist, Jon Woodward, reported on May 9 that Kenneth Law, 57, faces two counts of aiding and abetting the deaths of two people in Peel Region. It allegedly was through the online sales of a legal substance that is lethal in high concentrations. Law sold the substance online …

By Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition An Ontario man, Kenneth Law, has been arrested and charged with two counts of assisting a suicide and is known to have assisted the suicide of at least 7 people in the US and the UK. Lucas Casaletto reported for City News that: An article by George Odling for …

By Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition A May 2022 powerpoint presentation by the Statewide Campaigns Director with Dying With Dignity outlines a strategy for assisted suicide campaigners for  how to undermine opposition to assisted suicide by disability rights organizations.  The assisted suicide lobby recognizes that disability rights groups have been a central factor in …

By Dave Andrusko In his brilliant National Review Online columns, which we repost regularly, Wesley J. Smith helps the reader appreciate that, like a cancer, the growth of support for so-called physician-assisted must be fought 24/7. Led by the likes of Compassion and Choices (the new name for the Hemlock Society), they are relentless. Opponents must be …

The value of every human life is inherent, not determined by what we can do or how we feel. By John Stonestreet and Kasey Leander  Recently, Dr. Jennifer Gaudiani, a Colorado doctor of internal medicine, published a paper in which she advocates that physician-assisted suicide should be extended to patients struggling with anorexia. “Anyone who wishes to keep …

By Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition This is my first analysis of the court case that was launched on April 25, 2023, to have the California assisted suicide law declared unlawful and unconstitutional. Future articles will further explain the case. Euthanasia Prevention Coalition–USA supports this initiative. The United Spinal Association, Not Dead Yet, Institute …

By Wesley J. Smith The phony argument that legalized assisted suicide will permanently be limited to the terminally ill took a big hit by a New York Times op-ed in which an oft-suicidal Canadian philosophy professor, Clancy Martin, argues that mentally ill people who are suicidal should receive help from doctors to die. Martin’s first paragraph makes clear why …

By Richard Egan Euthanasia and assisted suicide been legal in Luxembourg since 2009. The person requesting euthanasia or assisted suicide must have a serious, incurable and irreversible affliction which leads to unbearable physical or mental suffering. The seventh biennial report by the National Commission for Control and Evaluation covering 2021-2022 was published in March 2023. There were 24 …