Assisted Suicide

• Paralysed man ‘wins’ court battle to end life by having respirator removed
• Dr. Phil show sympathetically highlights mom who wants to have her disabled adult children killed
• Spain’s main conservative and socialist parties join in rejecting euthanasia bill
• UK Parliament ‘welcomes’ guidelines effectively decriminalizing assisted suicide
• Quebec assembly committee calls for assisted suicide
• French socialist presidential candidate retreats under fire from pro-euthanasia position
• Canadian suicide prevention bill passes by overwhelming majority
• Canadian pro-life group launches national TV ads warning against euthanasia legalization
• ‘Biased,’ ‘seriously flawed’: Pro-life groups slam UK report calling for assisted suicide
• Grim reaper on wheels: Dutch right-to-die group wants ‘mobile euthanasia teams’
• Campaign Life Coalition to Canadians: act now to stop euthanasia before it’s too late
• Washington State lawyer suggests expanding euthanasia/assisted suicide to those not terminally ill
• As court considers euthanasia, 55 Canadian MPs call for ‘quality end-of-life care’
• Public submissions to Quebec committee overwhelmingly reject euthanasia, assisted suicide
• Royal Society of Canada report urging legalization of euthanasia a ‘sham’: anti-euthanasia leader
• Court case seeking to overturn Canadian laws against euthanasia begins today
• Slippery slope: ‘loneliness,’ ‘fatigue’ now criteria for euthanasia in Netherlands
• Anti-euthanasia group wins right to intervene in crucial Canadian case
• Special election upset in Massachusetts a hopeful sign for pro-life advocates
• Only 1 in 10 doctors would commit euthanasia if bill passes in Portugal: ethicist
• Massachusetts OKs assisted suicide vote for 2012 ballot
• Quebec lawyer seeks right to euthanasia for woman with Lou Gehrig’s disease
• How I helped my mother starve to death: retired New York Times reporter pens book
• One of two lawsuits challenging Canadian assisted suicide law dismissed
• BC judge fast tracks demand for assisted suicide by Lou Gehrig’s disease patient
• Bishop Morlino: gauging ‘quality of life’ an excuse to ‘pull up the hearse’
• New ‘Dr. Death’ admits to assisting the deaths of 300 in U.S.
• Bill to outlaw dehydration euthanasia passed by Italy’s lower house
• Assisted suicide advocates teaching at Catholic universities: Report
• ‘Euthanasia means killing someone’: Sydney Cardinal issues blunt pro-life challenge
• We do know Jack: What is assisted suicide really about?
• Shock study: Organs harvested from euthanized patients make better transplants
• U.S. bishops approve statement condemning physician-assisted in 191-1 vote
• Cardinal DiNardo on Catholic politicians, sanctions and assisted suicide
• We must fight to maintain a total ban on assisted suicide and euthanasia
• Popular UK soap under fire for assisted suicide propaganda
• Actor Hugh Grant: assisted suicide campaigner a ‘tremendous force for good’
• U.S. bishops to vote on document condemning assisted suicide
• Canadian has become one of world’s leading opponents of euthanasia and assisted suicide
• ‘Dr. Death’ Jack Kevorkian hospitalized
• Swiss voters overwhelmingly reject proposed assisted suicide ban
• 70% of disabled fear pressure to die if assisted suicide legalized: UK poll
• Euthanasia group to launch assisted suicide info hotline
• NewsBytes for May 6 - Life Issues
• Pro-life billboard banned in Australia, but euthanasia ad ok
• B.C. Civil Liberties Assoc. launches lawsuit to challenge assisted suicide law
• UK marketing assisted suicide educational videos for 14-year-olds
• Actor Patrick Stewart: assisted suicide should be a ‘right’
• Oregon looks to ban ‘suicide kits,’ but permits doctor-assisted suicides
• UK assisted suicide campaigner commits suicide at Swiss ‘clinic’: had arthritis