Hospice Leader in Canada Promotes Anti-Euthanasia Film: ‘My Life’s Work’
More than 40,000 Canadians have used the law to kill themselves since it became legal to do so in 2016.
More than 40,000 Canadians have used the law to kill themselves since it became legal to do so in 2016.
EPC Executive Director Alex Schadenberg told “EWTN News Nightly” host Tracy Sabol on Tuesday that there are “20 states in the U.S. that are debating an assisted suicide bill.”
While MAID accounted for 1% of deaths in Canada in 2017, the first full year it was allowed, the numbers had quadrupled by 2022.
The National Assembly, for its part, will have a period of 12 months to debate and approve the bill.
The Canadian pro-life movement rarely gets good news. But this week it got something to give a glimmer of hope that the slippery slope of legalized euthanasia may be finally arrested.
In Latin America, only Colombia allows euthanasia.
The U.S. Bishops met this week in Baltimore for the Fall USCCB assembly where the 2024 elections, pro-life leadership, National Eucharistic Revival, Synod on Synodality and saints were on the agenda. The Register’s editor-in-chief Shannon Mullen was on the ground in Baltimore. He joins us now with highlights. Then we turn to the sad news of baby Indi Gregory, who died in Great Britain this week after her life support was removed against her parents wishes. The Register’s UK correspondent, KV Turley, gives us insights into how Great Britain has come to this point where parents have no power to decide their children’s medical care.
As with the resurrection of Jesus, the devil got something he wasn’t bargaining for.
The experience of walking with her grandfather in his last days led Achtman to work that she believes is a calling.
The Belgian prelate has courted controversy before by taking actions and expressing views that appear at odds with the Church’s teaching.
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