UK assisted suicide bill stopped for now after vote deadline passes
'The Terminally Ill Adults Bill' ran out of time before it could be voted on by the House of Lords before its deadline.
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Articles tagged Assisted Dying
Scotland shocks the world with unexpected defeat of euthanasia
Scotland would have been the first part of the UK to legalize assisted suicide, but lawmakers rejected it in a surprising 69-57 vote on Tuesday after years of debate.
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Canada’s Catholic bishops support bill to stop euthanasia for mental illness
Canada’s expansion of euthanasia for mental illness is set to take effect in 2027, and the Canadian bishops are urging the faithful to back Bill C-218, which would block it.
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Elderly Canadian woman euthanized within hours despite changing her mind: report
'Canadian woman was euthanized 'against her will' after husband was fed-up with caring for her,' the Daily Mail reported on January 22.
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Australian man chooses assisted suicide because he cannot get disability care
The suicide lobby sells choice but doesn’t reveal the fact that, for many, there will be no choice.
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Lord Falconer says pregnant women should be able to choose assisted suicide
Lord Falconer's single, clinical statement is the reductio ad absurdum—or perhaps the inevitable conclusion—of the Culture of Death.
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‘Dr. Death’ laughs about 2017 ‘sacrificing grannies’ remark during assisted suicide discussion
What assisted suicide advocates say for public consumption versus what they say in private often differs, and 'Dr. Death' gave us a glimpse into his actual beliefs.
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Scotland’s assisted suicide bill passes first vote in parliament after intense debate
The Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults Bill, by a 70 to 56 vote, has been affirmed 'in principle' and will face two more parliamentary hurdles before becoming law.
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Delaware House narrowly passes bill to legalize assisted suicide
Delaware House Bill 140 allows a person who has been diagnosed as 'terminally' ill with less than six months to live to qualify for drugs that would end his or her life.
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North America’s horrific assisted suicide regime is knocking on Britain’s door
Much like abortion, advocates frame assisted suicide as a matter of ‘choice’ when they are the ones who burden vulnerable people with a terrible decision that no person should have to make, which may seem more like an obligation to die, which is no choice at all.
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