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Raft of assisted suicide laws introduced in states

February 9, 2021 CNA Daily News 3

Washington D.C., Feb 9, 2021 / 04:00 pm (CNA).- Seven states are currently considering bills that would legalize assisted suicide, and two other states are looking to expand legal assisted suicide. 

 

Legislators in Arizona, Indiana, Iowa, … […]

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As assisted suicide continues to rise in Ontario, pro-lifers call for government action

January 21, 2021 CNA Daily News 1

CNA Staff, Jan 22, 2021 / 12:06 am (CNA).- As cases of assisted suicide continue to increase annually in Ontario, pro-life advocates have called on the government to implement laws to help stem the tide of medically facilitated death.

“The numbe… […]

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Connecticut assisted suicide bill would not safeguard against coercion, opponents say

January 19, 2021 CNA Daily News 0

Hartford, Conn., Jan 19, 2021 / 02:01 pm (CNA).- Disability advocates criticized a Connecticut assisted suicide bill for failing to safeguard against coercion and for promoting the idea that the terminally ill are a burden on their caregivers.

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Spanish parliament advances legal euthanasia, despite Catholic opposition

December 18, 2020 CNA Daily News 0

CNA Staff, Dec 18, 2020 / 04:01 pm (CNA).- Spain’s parliament has advanced a euthanasia and assisted suicide bill that Catholic leaders had decried as “a defeat for all” which abandons those who suffer.

The Congress of Deputies, the… […]

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Austrian Catholic leader deplores court ruling on assisted suicide

December 14, 2020 CNA Daily News 0

CNA Staff, Dec 14, 2020 / 10:30 am (CNA).- An Austrian Catholic archbishop expressed dismay after the country’s top court ruled that assisted suicide should no longer be a criminal offense.

In a Dec. 11 statement, Archbishop Franz Lackner said t… […]

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Spain’s Catholic bishops: Fast and pray against legalization of euthanasia

December 11, 2020 CNA Daily News 1

Rome Newsroom, Dec 11, 2020 / 08:00 am (CNA).- The Catholic bishops of Spain called Friday for a day of fasting and prayer ahead of the expected approval of a bill to legalize euthanasia and assisted suicide in the country.

In a Dec. 11 message, the S… […]

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UK health secretary: traveling abroad for assisted suicide permitted under lockdown

November 6, 2020 CNA Daily News 2

CNA Staff, Nov 6, 2020 / 04:05 am (CNA).- U.K. health secretary Matt Hancock said Thursday that people traveling abroad for assisted suicide would not be breaking strict new coronavirus lockdown rules in England. 

Hancock told MPs Nov. 5 that the… […]

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NY’s progressive politicians prepare the battlefield for assisted suicide

February 4, 2019 Anne Hendershott 8

Emboldened after their victory in passing what Cardinal Dolan has called “ghoulish” legislation aimed at the death of inconvenient pre-born children, New York State’s progressive politicians have already begun their well-funded war on the elderly, […]

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