A bill introduced last week to legalize assisted suicide would be disastrous for Wisconsin. It would shrink end-of-life treatment options for older adults, people with disabilities and others facing terminal diagnoses. Assisted suicide compromises the role of a physician as a healer and runs contrary to...
It’s no surprise that the the District’s assisted suicide program isn’t popular. When it was legalized two years ago, health officials estimated as many as 10 people annually would elect to die this way. The reality? Two of four individuals who registered to die via...
A Catholic hospital in Nova Scotia must now offer patients access to medically assisted dying on site — a change advocates say should be noted by other provinces with faith-based hospitals. St. Martha’s Regional Hospital in Antigonish, N.S., which was formerly run by the Sisters of St. Martha,...
Something north of 8,000 people have died in Canada after its Medical Aid in Dying legislation came into effect in 2016. And now it will probably become easier after a decision by a Québec judge. This week Superior Court Justice Christine Baudouin struck down as unconstitutional...
Doctors, patients, and disability rights advocates spent much of Wednesday laying out their arguments against a bill that would allow physician-assisted suicide in Minnesota. Watch the video on Fox News...
The acquittal of a Dutch doctor who drugged and euthanized a dementia patient against her will sparked outrage in the United States as assisted suicide bills spread. On Wednesday, a Dutch court acquitted a doctor who admitted to administering lethal medication to a dementia patient with...
A Quebec Superior Court judge has invalidated sections of both the federal and Quebec laws on [assisted suicide], ruling Wednesday they were too restrictive and therefore unconstitutional. Justice Christine Baudouin found in favour of two Quebecers struck by incurable degenerative diseases who'd argued they were denied...
Sens. John Hoffman, DFL-Champlin, and Jim Abeler, R-Anoka. (Courtesy of the Minnesota Legislature) We are facing another wave of trying to legalize assisted suicide in Minnesota. Three years ago, legislation would have authorized doctors to prescribe lethal doses of medication for patients to intentionally end their...
Patient autonomy erodes away when doctors, insurers, and a profit-driven healthcare system make qualitative judgements on whether a person’s life is worth living. Sadly, murder has become legitimized as medicine. "A Dutch doctor was acquitted Wednesday in a landmark trial that prosecutors and physicians hope will...
All of us are moved by cases of people suffering from terrible illnesses such as Motor Neuron Disease, but these cases do not provide justification for ripping up long held and essential protections for disabled and vulnerable people. By treating those who are terminally ill, disabled,...