The recent court decision in Quebec that invalidated the "reasonably foreseeable" death clause of both the federal and Quebec assisted suicide laws laid the foundation for further legal challenges in the expansion of Canada's assisted suicide laws. Opponents of assisted suicide often warn of the...
Physician-assisted suicide isn't about dying on our own terms. Instead, it's prompting all of us to question whose lives are worth maintaining. This month in The Netherlands, a medical doctor was acquitted for euthanizing an elderly woman against her will. At first blush, this seems unfathomable, even...
Physician-assisted death — euthanasia — is lawful in three European countries, as well as Colombia and Canada. It is illegal, still, in the United States, though physicians in 10 states may supply lethal doses to terminally ill patients for self-administration. And the U.S. ban may...
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...