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Image Source: Suffolk Police | (L) Lorna Nightingale, (R) Emma Nightingale A woman from Lowestoft who was accused of murdering her 70-year-old mother has said she gave her a fatal quantity of medication after her mother repeatedly asked for help to end her life. Emma Nightingale, 36, was charged with…
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Image source: Shutterstock The family of an 83-year-old Canadian grandmother has alleged that she was euthanised despite previously rejecting assisted suicide on religious grounds and later expressing distress about the decision. Brigitte Stegemann, known to her family as “GG,” died through Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) programme on 10th…
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Image source: Shutterstock New York’s controversial assisted suicide law has come into force, allowing doctors to prescribe lethal drugs to terminally ill adults despite sustained opposition from Catholic leaders, disability advocates, and pro-life campaigners. The Medical Aid in Dying Act took effect on 5th August after being signed by Governor…
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Image Source: (L) UK Parliament | (R) SPUC Pro-Life New Prime Minister Andy Burnham has said that palliative and social care funding should be fixed before Parliament considers legalising assisted suicide in England and Wales. It is the first time Burnham has set out his position on the issue since…
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Image Source: Shutterstock Roman Catholic religious sisters and healthcare organisations are suing the State of New York over its forthcoming assisted suicide law, arguing that it would force them to participate in practices that violate their religious beliefs. Ten Catholic plaintiffs filed the lawsuit, including the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne,…
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Australia’s governing Labor Party has voted to support the removal of federal legal barriers preventing euthanasia consultations from taking place by telephone or video call, while also changing its constitution to allow MPs a conscience vote on future voluntary assisted dying legislation. The measures were approved at the Australian Labor…
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Image Source: Church of England | Bishop of Rochester The Bishop of Rochester has spoken out against his own MP’s renewed attempt to legalise assisted suicide, warning that the proposed law could fundamentally change society’s relationship with elderly and vulnerable people. The Right Reverend Jonathan Gibbs criticised the latest Bill…
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Image source: Shutterstock | House of Keys, Tynwald, Douglas, Isle of Man The Isle of Man has formally approved legislation legalising assisted suicide, becoming only the second Crown Dependency to change its law despite ongoing concerns about the Bill’s safeguards and its compatibility with human rights protections. The legislation has…
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Image Source: House of Commons The dangerous assisted suicide Bill has been reintroduced to Parliament, in an almost identical form to the legislation debated during the previous parliamentary session. Labour MP Lauren Edwards published her Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill on the day MPs left Westminster for the…
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France has moved a step closer to legalising assisted suicide after the country’s National Assembly voted to approve controversial legislation despite the French Senate rejecting the Bill on three separate occasions. The legislation, one of President Emmanuel Macron’s flagship social reforms, would create a legal right to assisted suicide for…
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France’s Senate has rejected a Bill to legalise assisted suicide for the third time, although supporters remain on course to introduce the law after the legislation returns to the National Assembly, where there is stronger backing. On Tuesday, senators voted by 169 votes to 164, with 11 abstentions, in favour…
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Lauren Edwards, the Labour MP for Rochester and Strood, has decided to use her number two spot in the private members bill ballot to reintroduce the Leadbeater assisted suicide bill.
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Pope Leo XIV has delivered a powerful defence of unborn life before Spain’s parliament, declaring that every human life must be protected “from conception to its natural end” and warning against a growing “throwaway culture” that devalues the most vulnerable members of society. Addressing members of the Spanish Parliament in…
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Image source: UK Parliament | (L) Ashley Dalton MP, (R) Sir Julian Smith MP A Labour MP living with incurable cancer has warned parliament against reviving the controversial assisted dying bill, saying the proposed legislation was deeply flawed and risked creating dangerous unintended consequences for vulnerable people. Ashley Dalton, the…
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Image Source: YouTube/A Current Affair A 26-year-old Australian woman with a rare terminal illness has announced she plans to end her own life through assisted dying, reigniting debate over euthanasia laws and the growing international push to expand access to assisted suicide. Annaliese “Annie” Holland, from Australia, suffers from Autoimmune…