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Britain’s House of Commons recently passed a bill legalizing assisted suicide for terminally ill adults expected to live less than six months. The vote was narrow (314 to 291) but the decision remains ...
The decision of the Canadian government to abolish a government ministry for people with disabilities has been blasted as “a ...
COMMENTARY: Legalizing physician-assisted suicide is bad enough — but New York’s version deepens the harm by leaving Catholic ...
A bill that would legalize assisted suicide in Massachusetts made it passed the first step in the legislative process this ...
Canadian Member of Parliament Tamara Jansen has introduced a private member’s bill to stop the expansion of medical assistance in dying for mental illness alone.
A coalition of disability and patient advocacy groups is suing the State of Colorado, claiming the state’s medical aid in dying law violates civil rights and puts vulnerable patients at risk.
Disability rights organizations and a Littleton woman filed suit over Colorado's medical aid-in-dying, or assisted suicide, law, arguing it discriminates against people with disabilities.
A Colorado law that allows physician-assisted suicide is facing a legal challenge from groups representing individuals with life-threatening disabilities who say the state is wrongly steering people ...
Currently, the Senate of Canada is reviewing Bill C-7 as it seeks to understand the implications of further expanding medical assistance in dying, known as MAiD.
Health Canada had, two years earlier, granted 19 substantively identical exemption requests for HCPs to possess and consume psilocybin-containing mushrooms for the purpose of completing TheraPsil ...
Peers would be on dicey political ground if they tried to stop the bill passed by MPs – but they may run into problems over timing.
Assisted dying, by contrast, introduces a new ethical dimension: it's not about withholding treatment, but about actively intervening to end life.