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Toronto Cardinal Frank Leo poses in an undated photo at the Vatican. In letters to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and members of Parliament April 20, Cardinal Leo asked them to "choose life and not death" by voting for a measure to restrict using Canada's assisted dying law for individuals solely living with a mental illness, not a terminal illness. (OSV News photo/courtesy Archdiocese of Toronto)

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Canadian cardinal urges vote to stop expansion of assisted suicide to those with mental illness

OSV News|Apr 24, 2026|3 Min Read

A hospital bed is seen May 31, 2024, at the palliative care unit of the Clinic Saint-Elisabeth in Marseille, France. The Scottish Catholic bishops welcomed Parliament's decision March 17, 2026, to reject a bill that would have allowed eligible adults "to lawfully request, and be provided with, assistance by health professionals to end their own life." (OSV News photo/Manon Cruz, Reuters)

Bishops hail Scottish lawmakers for rejecting assisted dying; UK faces pivotal abortion vote

OSV News|Mar 18, 2026|4 Min Read

People hold placards reading "Vote for care. Not euthanasia" during a demonstration in Paris Feb. 16, 2026, as France debates a bill to legalize assisted dying. The bishops of Scotland in a March 10 statement expressed concerns over their own government's response to amendments that would protect faith-based organizations' and hospices' objections to assisted suicide. (OSV News photo/Benoit Tessier, Reuters)

Scottish bishops urge recognition of conscientious objection over assisted suicide bill

Junno Arocho Esteves|Mar 13, 2026|3 Min Read

Virginia Bishops Michael Burbidge of Arlington and Barry Knestout of Richmond. (Katie Yoder/CNA; photo courtesy of the Archdiocese of Washington via EWTN)

Bishops praise Virginia Legislature for halting assisted suicide bill

Gina Christian|Feb 18, 2026|2 Min Read

A bird walks near the Houses of Parliament in London April 12, 2025. Archbishop John Sherrington of Liverpool, the lead bishop for life issues of the bishops' conference of England and Wales, called on Catholics Sept. 1, 2025, to write to members of the House of Lords to urge them to oppose an assisted suicide bill which could trigger the closure of church-run hospices and care homes. (OSV News photo/Carlos Jasso, Reuters)

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UK Catholic lawmakers fight to stop 'outrageous' bills on assisted suicide, abortion up to birth

Jonathan Luxmoore|Feb 13, 2026|5 Min Read

Opponents of New York state's proposed assisted suicide bill stand outside the governor's mansion in Albany Dec. 3, 2025, for a candlelight vigil urging Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Catholic, to veto the bill passed by the Legislature June 9. Hochul signed the measure into law Feb. 6, 2026. (OSV News photo/Emily Benson, The Evangelist)

Hochul signs assisted suicide measure into law, making New York 13th state allowing it

OSV News|Feb 9, 2026|5 Min Read

A drip bag is pictured while a nurse gives medicine to a patient at the palliative care unit of the Clinic Saint-Elisabeth in Marseille, France, May 31, 2024. On Jan. 15, 2026, French bishops reaffirmed their opposition to a bill establishing the right to "active assistance in dying," which senators will begin reviewing Jan. 20, with a vote set for Jan. 28. The National Assembly, the lower house of the French Parliament, passed the measure May 27, 2025. (OSV News photo/Manon Cruz, Reuters)

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'We do not care for life by giving death,' French bishops say ahead of 'assisted dying' bill move

Caroline de Sury|Jan 19, 2026|4 Min Read

Opponents of New York state's proposed assisted suicide bill stand outside the governor's mansion in Albany, Dec. 3, 2025, for a candlelight vigil urging for Gov. Kathy Hochul to veto the bill passed by the Legislature June 9. Hochul announced Dec. 17 that she would sign an amended bill in January. (OSV News photo/Emily Benson, The Evangelist)

NY bishops 'extraordinarily troubled' by Gov. Hochul's decision to legalize assisted suicide

Lauretta Brown|Dec 17, 2025|4 Min Read

People attend a candlelight vigil outside the Sen. John H. Hughes Office Building in downtown Syracuse, N.Y., Dec. 4, 2025, to speak out against a controversial bill that, should it become law, would allow physicians to assist terminally ill adults as young as age 18 to die by suicide. (OSV News/Tami S. Scott, The Catholic Sun)

Is the future of assisted suicide in the U.S. at a 'major tipping point'?

Pablo Kay|Dec 8, 2025|8 Min Read

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‘Don’t kill me’ wheelchair campaign opposes assisted suicide in Italy

Catholic News Agency|Nov 6, 2025|3 Min Read

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New study shows just over half of Americans support a right to assisted suicide

Catholic News Agency|Sep 17, 2025|4 Min Read

A woman is pictured in a file photo holding up a sign during a rally against assisted suicide on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario. A Canadian lawmaker says pushback has been growing against expanding assisted suicide to include those with mental illnesses in the weeks since she held a press conference July 9, 2025, in British Columbia on a bill she's introduced to block mental health as a sole criteria. (OSV News photo/Art Babych)

Pushback grows against allowing mental health as reason for doctor-aided death in Canada

OSV News|Jul 29, 2025|3 Min Read

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