Tag: Abroad

'Physician-assisted suicide, like euthanasia, is unethical and must be condemned'
... and open to being wider, says bill's author
Answers to key questions regarding recent worrying developments in Belgium and the Netherlands
Assisted suicide deaths increase by 17% in one year in Washington State
National ethics committee rejects euthanasia but President Hollande pledges a law by the end of the year.
In this last week both Belgium and the Netherlands have taken further major steps regarding euthanasia for children.
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.
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.
Recently released figures give a stunning image of the effects of incremental extension
Fresh warning sounded to UK as euthanasia deaths increase by 25% in Belgium in just one year
Marie Fleming's appeal before Dublin's Supreme Court is based on a failure to understand the law's basis and intention
'why these countries pass such laws, how they work and whether my concerns are justified'
Just the latest step in an escalation of euthanasia which is badly out of control
Report on the first decade of legalised euthanasia exposes 'the absence of any effective control'
An uncommunicative, severely brain-injured patient has been able to give answers clinically relevant to their care
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 - an excuse for another news story
The US state of Massachusetts is to hold a referendum on the legalisation of assisted suicide next month.