Connecticut Assisted Suicide Bill Would Not Safeguard Against Coercion, Opponents Say
Various assisted suicide bills have been proposed in the state starting in 2013, though none have been passed into law.
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Spanish Parliament Advances Legal Euthanasia, Despite Catholic Opposition
Protesters rallied against the bill outside of the parliament building in Madrid holding a banner that said “Government of death.”
Dutch Doctors Can Sedate ‘Agitated’ Patients Before Euthanasia
Euthanasia is legal in the Netherlands for anyone over the age of 12, or for anyone under the age of one.
Cardinal Parolin Tells EU Bishops: Protect Life from Conception to Natural Death
During a livestream event Oct. 28, Cardinal Parolin said that Europe today needed to return to some of the basic principles of Catholic social teaching that were “at the heart of the European Project.”
Euthanasia’s Slippery Slope in Netherlands Set to Snare Children
COMMENTARY: The proposal to extend the practice to children 1-12 is the latest episode of the country’s 40-year dance with the culture of death.
Dutch Government Backs Euthanasia for Children Under 12
The government expect between five and 10 children a year to be euthanized under the new rule.
Cardinal Müller: Catholic Politicians Must Fight Abortion, Euthanasia
While the Church teaches that human rights come from God, Cardinal Müller said, even those who do not believe in God can understand simply through their intellect that human lives are not to be used and manipulated.
Vatican Tells UN it is ‘Deeply Concerned’ by Push to ‘Reinterpret’ Foundations of Human Rights
Archbishop Caccia specifically criticized the promotion of abortion and euthanasia as supposed “rights.”
Vatican Reaffirms Euthanasia is ‘Intrinsically Evil Act,’ Calls Catholics to Accompany the Dying
Euthanasia, the CDF letter affirmed, is “an intrinsically evil act, in every situation or circumstance” and “any formal or immediate material cooperation in such an act is a grave sin against human life.”
Catholic Bishop in NJ: Don’t Be Complacent in the Face of Legal Assisted Suicide
On the eve of the law's taking effect, Bishop Checchio condemned assisted suicide as “a grievous affront to the dignity of human life” that “can never be morally justified.”
