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by bcadmin | Oct 17, 2022 | Archbishop Leo Cushley, Archdiocese of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh, Church in Scotland, Church in UK and Ireland, Death and dying, End-of-life issues, euthanasia, Great Britain, lead, News, Physician-assisted suicide, Scotland, Scottish Parliament, United Kingdom | 0 |
Efforts to legalize “assisted dying” in Scotland send the message that lives with suffering “can be considered no longer worth living,” according to a leading archbishop.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 5, 2022 | Belgium, Catholic News Service, Church in Europe, Council of Europe, End-of-life issues, euthanasia, human rights, News, Physician-assisted suicide | 0 |
Doctors in Belgium violated a woman’s right to life when they improperly handled her request for euthanasia, the European Court of Human rights ruled.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 28, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in Europe, euthanasia, France, French bishops, News, Physician-assisted suicide | 0 |
France’s Catholic bishops warned President Emmanuel Macron’s government that “immoral legislation” to allow euthanasia risked overturning the country’s “ethical equilibrium.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 1, 2022 | Associated Press, Australia, Church in Oceania, euthanasia, News, Physician-assisted suicide | 0 |
A new bill was introduced in the Australian Parliament on Monday seeking to lift a 25-year ban on doctor-assisted dying in two territories.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 11, 2022 | Abortion, Catholic News Service, Church in Asia, News, Physician-assisted suicide, South Korea | 0 |
A South Korean Catholic bishop has criticized the country’s existing policy under which abortion is legal.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 10, 2022 | Associated Press, Church in Europe, euthanasia, News, Physician-assisted suicide, Portugal | 0 |
Portugal’s parliament voted for the third time in just over a year Thursday in favor of allowing euthanasia, though like the previous two attempts, the country’s Constitutional Court or president could lawmakers’ support from becoming law.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 20, 2022 | Archbishop Anthony Fisher, Australia, Catholic News Service, Church in Oceania, euthanasia, New South Wales, News, Physician-assisted suicide | 0 |
The Parliament of New South Wales, Australia’s most populous state, has passed a law allowing people to choose assisted dying under certain circumstances. It was the last of the country’s six states to enact such legislation.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 5, 2022 | Catholic Medical Association, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, euthanasia, National Right to Life, News, Oregon, Physician-assisted suicide | 0 |
The National Right to Life Committee March 30 denounced Oregon’s decision to drop residency requirements that were part of its physician-assisted suicide law.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 18, 2022 | Anscombe Bioethics Centre, Assisted suicide, bioethics, Catholic News Service, Church in UK and Ireland, euthanasia, News, Physician-assisted suicide | 0 |
Violent suicides increase in countries where assisted suicide and euthanasia are legalized, a new study shows.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 30, 2021 | Associated Press, Church in Europe, euthanasia, News, Physician-assisted suicide, Portugal | 0 |
Portugal’s president has refused to sign for the second time a parliament-sanctioned bill allowing euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 21, 2021 | Archbishop Justin Welby, Bishops Conference of England and Wales, Cardinal Vincent Nichols, Catholic Church, Church in UK and Ireland, euthanasia, Great Britain, lead, News, Physician-assisted suicide, UK Parliament, United Kingdom | 0 |
Cardinal Cardinal Vincent Nichols, President of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, has written to members of the UK’s House of Lords to urge them to reject physician-assisted suicide.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 28, 2021 | California, California Catholic Conference, Catholic healthcare, Church in the US, Conscience Protection, Interviews, News, Physician-assisted suicide | 0 |
Kathleen Domingo is Executive Director of the California Catholic Conference, the first woman to hold this position.
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