New Report: Belgium euthanized 12% more people in 2019, over 2500, including one child
A 2019 Belgian euthanasia report has been released, showing that 2,655 people died from euthanasia last year, an increase of 12.5% from 2018, including dozens of people with disabilities and one child. Wim Distelmans, More...
Dignity in Dying promotes assisted suicide as the alternative to a ‘bad death’
In Scotland, euthanasia groups are working to convince lawmakers to legalize assisted suicide, attempting to scare people in a new report, “The Inescapable Truth,” along with a video, which claims that 17 More...
Gov Kate Brown signs Oregon euthanasia bill, ends waiting period
Oregon Governor Kate Brown agreed to expand the assisted suicide law by signing Bill SB 0579 into law. This bill, essentially, eliminates the 15 day waiting period to die by assisted suicide, a safeguard that was More...
Maryland euthanasia bill stalls in state Senate as legislators are divided over assisted suicide
Maryland’s assisted suicide bill for allowing terminally-ill patients in Maryland to take their own lives fell one vote short on Wednesday in the Maryland Senate, stalling the legislation for now. Under the More...
Oregon seeks to expand assisted suicide as new report indicates another annual rise
The 2018 Oregon annual assisted suicide report is similar to prior years: there were more assisted suicides in 2018, ten more than in 2017. According to the 2018 Oregon assisted suicide report: There were 168 reported assisted More...
How to Overcome Suicidal Thoughts
At some point, your life may become so overwhelming that you don’t see a way out. You are surrounded by darkness and think that suicide is your only chance at relief. There is always a solution. You are greater More...
Joni Eareckson Tada on Disability and Oregon’s Physician-Assisted Suicide Law
Joni Eareckson Tada issued this statement on Disability and Oregon’s Physician-Assisted Suicide Law “Ever since the 1990s when Oregon passed its Death with Dignity Act, I’ve been working to de-grease More...
Alabama: New abortion bill requires parental consent from ‘out-of-state’ minors, adds ‘pro-life’ day, bans assisted suicide
Alabama legislators proposed an abortion bill that would require out-of-state minors seeking abortions to gain parental consent. The bill passed by a vote of 25-7 over opposition from most of the Democratic minority. The More...
Liberty Counsel praises Neil Gorsuch vote, ‘statutes should be interpreted literally’
The U.S. Senate voted 54-45 to confirm President Trump’s nominee, Judge Neil Gorsuch, as the next Supreme Court Justice. Neil Gorsuch Republicans successfully used the so-called nuclear option to set up the More...
Colorado passes assisted suicide bill
Coloradans have decided that terminally ill patients should be allowed to end their lives with the assistance of a physician. The state joins five others, including California, with so-called “death with More...
Hillary Clinton misrepresents gun violence, while ignoring rising suicide rates
Wednesday night Hillary Clinton continued to play politics on guns, using tried-and-true tactics of obfuscation and misrepresentation in pursuit of a political agenda. She focused in on the number “33,000 More...
ADF helps Vermont health care professionals opt out of euthanasia practices, assisted suicides
Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys asked a federal court Monday to stop Vermont officials in two state agencies from forcing conscientious health care professionals to help kill their patients while the lawsuit More...
ADF, Vermont health professionals join in lawsuit to fend off assisted suicide requirements
Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys filed suit in federal court Tuesday against officials in the Vermont Board of Medical Practice and the Office of Professional Regulation on behalf of health care professionals More...
When to contact a behavioral health service for your family member
Unfortunately, most people either don’t realize or don’t want to admit it’s time to look into behavioral health facilities. However, at a certain point, it’s time to seek out the assistance More...
Bishop Salvatore Matano attacks assisted suicide efforts in New York, ‘path toward self-destruction’
A New York Catholic bishop has denounced current efforts to legalize physician-assisted suicide in the state, calling it a “path toward self-destruction.” Euthanasia and controversial “assisted suicides” More...
Assisted suicide advocate Frank Kavanaugh murders wife, Barbara Kavanaugh then self
A self-described death-with-dignity advocate was shot dead along with his ailing wife in an assisted living center in Florida. Police say Frank Kavanaugh shot and killed his wife Barbara before turning the gun More...
Canada’s PM Justin Trudeau defends euthanasia bill as ‘the first step’
Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has defended his government’s draft bill on euthanasia and assisted suicide after some Liberal backbenchers complained it is more restrictive than the Supreme Court More...
European Union’s euthanasia measure fails
Described as a “Written declaration on dignity at the end of life,” the Members of the European Parliament failed to support the euthanasia measure. Life Sites News had more details, quoting this written More...
New Jersey euthanasia bill still moves ahead, Chris Christie silent
Religious groups and New Jersey’s right to life organization are issuing warnings about an “aid-in-dying” bill delayed by legislators late last year that one leader said might be voted on this month. “The More...
ADF begins fight in Tennessee to stop euthanasia ‘end of life’ assisted suicide measures
Alliance Defending Freedom has filed a friend-of-the-court brief in a Tennessee court on behalf of six pro-life organizations that oppose the legalization of doctor-prescribed death within the state. “Suffering More...
