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Netherlands poised to legalize euthanasia for children aged one to 12

The Netherlands moved towards legalizing euthanasia for terminally-ill children between ages of one and 12 after the proposal was supported by the coalition government on Tuesday.

Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide

10 FG and 4 FF join Left to pass Assisted Suicide Bill to Committee Stage

Ten Fine Gael TDs and four from Fianna Fáil joined liberal and left-wing TDs last night to ensure the Assisted Suicide bill passed its second stage in the Dáil by 81 votes to 71. The bill will now go to the Committee Stage for examination.

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Top Doctors come out strongly against Assisted Suicide - palliative care experts speak out

The leading medical experts who provide care to people with terminal illnesses and those at the end of their lives have come out strongly against Assisted Suicide being legalised in Ireland.

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Assisted suicide: Canadian doctor warns it increased FIVE-FOLD in 4 years

A Canadian doctor has warned that the number of people dying by assisted suicide increased five-fold in Canada after it was legalised in 2016 on 'limited grounds'.

Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide

Legalising assisted dying can actually increase suicides

Recently I addressed a group of Parliamentarians in London about assisted suicide and euthanasia. My talk, which coincided with World Suicide Prevention day, sought to address the unintended consequences of legalising assisted suicide and euthanasia in the Netherlands.

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Legalizing assisted-suicide makes mockery of efforts to keep the vulnerable alive

Deputy Gino Kelly's "Dying with Dignity Bill 2020" will proceed to Second Stage after it was discussed in Dáil Éireann yesterday.

Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide

Leading expert: aged, vulnerable made to feel a burden with assisted suicide

A leading medical expert has said that the Assisted Suicide bill ignores the better option of good palliative care, and pointed to a High Court ruling saying that it would be "impossible" to ensure that older and more vulnerable people would be protected from coming under pressure to end their lives.

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URGENT: TELL your TD to vote NO to assisted suicide - TODAY

A Private Members Bill from PBP TD Gino Kenny is set to come before the Dáil TODAY seeking to legalise Assisted Suicide. The Bill proposes to make it legal for a medical practitioner to "enable" a person to end his or her own life.

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Assisted suicide, euthanasia more than 10 times higher than predicted in Australian state

While the Australian state of Tasmania is debating a bill that would legalize assisted suicide, the state of Victoria reported more than ten times the anticipated number of deaths from assisted suicide and euthanasia in its first legal year.

Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide

Euthanasia and abortion: two sides of the one coin

Spiked is an online blog whose writers regard themselves as proudly anti-establishment, but when it comes to abortion, they are all staunch supporters, from Ella Whelan declaring that abortion on the grounds of disability is not discrimination to Anne Furedi's sycophantic praise for Andrew Cuomo’s New York law for abortion to birth for any reason.

Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide

Pro-euthanasia effort in European Parliament fails

The pro-life movement saw a victory this past month as the pro-euthanasia lobby in the EU Parliament failed to gain majority support for a declaration on the so-called “dignity at the end of life”, which included support for euthanasia to include reasons of mental or psychological suffering.

Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide

77 percent of people with disabilities concerned about assisted suicide

A British poll has found that 77% of people with disability aged 18-24 and 71% of disabled people aged 25-34 were "concerned about pressure being placed on other disabled people to end their lives prematurely", if there were a change in the law on assisted suicide".

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