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Report: Patients being offered assisted suicide in apparent policy violation
February 28, 2021
Officially known in Canada as MAID (medical aid in dying), euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide were legalized in the country during June 2016. Since then, nearly 14,000 people have ended their lives through MAID in Canada as of 2019. 
Irish bishops decry bill to legalize euthanasia
February 15, 2021
The Dying with Dignity 2020 bill has received opposition from the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission, as well as the Council for Life and the Consultative Group on Bioethics at the Catholic Bishops’ Conference.
BMA survey shows shifting ideas on assisted suicide
October 08, 2020
59 per cent of those responding said they support changing the law to allow terminally ill and incurably suffering adults the option of a legal assisted death.
Cardinal Eijk: A priest cannot be present at euthanasia
December 18, 2019
A priest must say clearly to a person opting for assisted suicide or voluntary euthanasia that he is committing a grave sin, a Dutch cardinal told CNA this week. For the same reason, a priest cannot be present when voluntary euthanasia or assisted suicide is performed. This might imply that the priest has no problems
Priests respond to Archbishop Paglia: ‘Accompaniment isn’t directionless’
December 18, 2019
After a prominent archbishop commented to journalists last week that he would hold the hand of a person dying of assisted suicide, two priests and a cardinal offered their perspectives to CNA on what a priest ought to do if faced with a person wishing to commit assisted suicide. “Sitting there holding their hand as
Three children killed under Belgium’s euthanasia law
July 25, 2018
The children are the first to die by lethal injection since Belgium changed the law in 2014
Portuguese parliament rejects euthanasia
May 30, 2018
The proposal deeply divided the Catholic nation
Court upholds decision overturning California assisted suicide
May 28, 2018
The law permitting assisted suicide was struck down earlier this month
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