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A disability rights activist, a palliative care practitioner, a rabbi and an imam spoke to the all-party parliamentary group on end-of-life elections yesterday (Wednesday, July 7, 2021), calling…

When California lawmakers finally passed AB2X-15, a controversial physician-assisted suicide bill in 2015, many opposition activists argued that the passage of legalized physician-assisted suicide would give insurers perverse incentives to…

The national convener of the SNP for disabled members has supported opponents of a new proposed euthanasia law and vowed to combat any support from government colleagues "with every fiber of my being". Jamie Szymkowiak's claim follows…

Getty ImagesOTTAWA - United Nations (UN) human rights experts are alarmed by what they believe is a growing trend to enact laws that provide medical assistance to the dying of people suffering from non-terminal, disabled…

Hartford, Conn., Jan 19, 2021 / 2:01 p.m. MT (CNA)- Disability advocates criticized a Connecticut-sponsored suicide bill for failing to protect itself against coercion and promoting the idea that terminally ill people are a burden on their…

NewsPoliticsThe prospect of Scottish euthanasia laws being introduced at Holyrood is at a "turning point," according to an MSP pushing for change.Sunday, January 3, 2021, 7:00 a.m.Updated at 8:57 a.m. on Sunday, January 3,…