“Many here in the United States advocate for legalized euthanasia…. Thankfully, there are other voices opposing it. For instance, the American Medical Association has stated, ‘Euthanasia is fundamentally incompatible with the physician’s role as healer, would be difficult or impossible to control, and would pose serious societal risks.’” - P&D
Over 16,000 Canadians Likely Died From “Medical Assistance in Dying” in 2023
“The nation’s Fourth Annual Report on Medical Assistance in Dying discloses that there were 13,241 euthanasia deaths in 2022 alone.” - Daily Citizen
Canada considering bill to remove ‘final consent’ for assisted suicide
“Canada is considering a bill that would allow individuals to sign a waiver that would remove ‘final consent’ for assisted suicide … in which a physician or nurse practitioner carries out the death by chemical injection.” - CPost
This young woman survived an ISIS attack. Then she was euthanized in Belgium
“Earlier this year, the then-23-year-old chose to commit suicide through euthanasia….Though she did not sustain any physical injuries, the trauma of the Brussels terror attack event proved too emotionally difficult” - C.Post
Canada Euthanized 10,000 People in 2021. Has Death Lost Its Sting?
“Here’s what I’ve learned as a Christian doctor receiving requests for physician-assisted dying.” - C.Today
Belgium failed to properly review depressed woman's assisted suicide case, human rights court rules
“The procedure under section 8 of the Euthanasia Act did not prevent the doctor who performed the euthanasia from sitting on the Board and voting on whether his or her own acts were compatible with the substantive and procedural requirements of domestic law” - C.Post
Expansions on euthanasia should be sounding alarm bells for us all
We’ve recently launched the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. “at the same time, the legal right to physician-assisted suicide is being expanded more than ever….Do we as a society want to prevent people from killing themselves, or to support it as an expression of personal autonomy?” - RNS
The Netherlands Allows Doctors to Euthanize Patients Without Their Consent
“…doctors are allowed to execute—murder—their patients and ‘it is no longer necessary for the doctor to agree with the patient when or how euthanasia will be administered’ if the patient has dementia or a similar medical condition.” - AiG
New Zealand Referendum Says yes to Euthanasia
“Euthanasia will be legalized in New Zealand….It will allow people suffering a terminal illness with less than six months to live to end their life. However, the final results will not be released until next week.” - MCD
Canada: BC government threatens to withdraw all funding from a facility that won't euthanize patients
“Hospice is not about making people dead. Rather, it seeks to help terminally ill patients live well through intensive medical, spiritual, psychological, and social treatments to alleviate the pain and emotional suffering ….Don’t tell that to the provincial government of British Columbia.” - National Review