Tag: Abroad

World Medical Association reaffirms its strong opposition to euthanasia

'Physician-assisted suicide, like euthanasia, is unethical and must be condemned'

NZ euthanasia bill ‘wide-open’…

... and open to being wider, says bill's author

Q&A – Low Countries developments

Answers to key questions regarding recent worrying developments in Belgium and the Netherlands

Washington overtakes Oregon

Assisted suicide deaths increase by 17% in one year in Washington State

French euthanasia law coming

National ethics committee rejects euthanasia but President Hollande pledges a law by the end of the year.

Escalation of child euthanasia

In this last week both Belgium and the Netherlands have taken further major steps regarding euthanasia for children.

Groningen Protocol

Asked for evidence of the much-maligned 'slippery slope', our Campaign Director shocked radio listeners with a Dutch protocol under which disabled babies can be euthanized.

Marie Fleming loses appeal challenging Irish ban on assisted suicide

Irish Supreme Court rules that there is 'no explicit right to commit suicide, or to determine the time of one's own death' in Ireland's Constitution.

4,620% increase in Belgian euthanasia cases in ten years since legalisation

Recently released figures give a stunning image of the effects of incremental extension

Things are moving at a frightening pace in Belgium

Fresh warning sounded to UK as euthanasia deaths increase by 25% in Belgium in just one year

Landmark Irish ‘right to die’ case is based on flawed assumption

Marie Fleming's appeal before Dublin's Supreme Court is based on a failure to understand the law's basis and intention

Comedian’s ‘Euthanasia Road Trip’

'why these countries pass such laws, how they work and whether my concerns are justified'

Belgian twins’ euthanasia, and what it represents

Just the latest step in an escalation of euthanasia which is badly out of control

Euthanasia is out of control in Belgium – new ten year review

Report on the first decade of legalised euthanasia exposes 'the absence of any effective control'

BBC Panorama findings will heighten calls for review of Tony Bland judgement

An uncommunicative, severely brain-injured patient has been able to give answers clinically relevant to their care

Defeat for pro-euthanasia lobby as Massachusetts rejects assisted suicide on ballot

The US state of Massachusetts voted 51-49 in a referendum last night to reject the legalisation of assisted suicide.

Ten years of assisted suicide at Dignitas – another excuse for an international news story

Ten years of assisted suicide at Dignitas - an excuse for another news story

Huge opposition to assisted suicide in Massachusetts from doctors and disabled people in lead up to ballot

The US state of Massachusetts is to hold a referendum on the legalisation of assisted suicide next month.