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Assisted Suicide

Graham Schafer holds a sign during a demonstration in support of assisted dying in London Nov. 29, 2024. Britain's lawmakers voted Nov. 29 to legalize assisted suicide for the terminally ill in England and Wales, despite opposition from Britain's Catholic bishops and other faith groups. (OSV News photo/Mina Kim, Reuters)

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Irish bishops call for respecting human life as assisted suicide advances

Charles Collins|Dec 5, 2024|4 Min Read

Protestors holds a placard outside Parliament as British lawmakers debate the assisted dying law in London Nov. 29, 2024. Britain's lawmakers voted Nov. 29 to legalize assisted suicide for the terminal ill in England and Wales, despite opposition from Britain's Catholic bishops and other faith groups. (OSV News photo/Mina Kim, Reuters)

Catholic bishops decry British end of life vote: 'May God help us'

Simon Caldwell|Nov 29, 2024|4 Min Read

A health care worker comforts a patient at a hospital in Blackburn, England, May 14, 2020. Churches and faith groups across the United Kingdom have condemned a bill to allow physician-assisted suicide and stepped up efforts to block its Nov. 29, 2024, approval by members of Parliament. (OSV News photo/Hannah McKay, pool via Reuters)

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Churches, faith groups join forces in Britain against 'deceptive' assisted suicide bill

Jonathan Luxmoore|Nov 25, 2024|5 Min Read

Cardinal Vincent Gerald Nichols of Britain poses before a news conference at the British college in downtown Rome February 24, 2014. Cardinal Nichols has called for Catholics in England and Wales to join him and their bishops to pause for an hour Nov. 13, 2024 to pray for the dignity of human life ahead of the late November assisted suicide vote in the U.K. (OSV News photo/Max Rossi, Reuters)

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British bishops will pray in front of Blessed Sacrament ahead of assisted suicide vote

Simon Caldwell|Nov 12, 2024|2 Min Read

Bishop Mark E. Brennan delivers the homily during his installation Mass Aug. 22, 2019, as head of the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston, W.Va., in the Cathedral of St. Joseph in Wheeling. (CNS photo/Bob Roller)

West Virginia assisted suicide ban leads by narrow margin as vote count continues

Gina Christian|Nov 6, 2024|4 Min Read

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Irish parliament votes Yes to ‘note’ report supporting Assisted Suicide

Charles Collins|Oct 24, 2024|3 Min Read

Cardinal Vincent Nichols of Westminster is pictured in a May 19, 2022, photo. Cardinal Nichols has joined leading Catholic politicians and pro-life groups in calling on U.K. Catholics to take immediate and urgent action to oppose an assisted suicide bill that he says will strike "fear and trepidation" in vulnerable people. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

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Assisted dying bill in the UK is a 'slippery slope,' cardinal says

OSV News|Oct 11, 2024|5 Min Read

Delaware Gov. John Carney is pictured May 30, 2021. Carney, a Democrat, vetoed House Bill 140 Sept. 20, 2024, which would have legalized physician-assisted suicide in the state. "I am fundamentally and morally opposed’ to someone taking their own life,” he said in a statement issued the day of his veto. (OSV News photo/Ken Cedeno, Reuters)

Delaware governor vetoes bill to legalize physician-assisted suicide in state

Joseph P. Owens|Sep 23, 2024|3 Min Read

Suicide

World

As UK debates legalizing assisted suicide, practice increases drastically in Canada

Charles Collins|Aug 13, 2024|4 Min Read

Palliative

World

French bishops oppose ‘end of life’ bill in latest row with government

Elise Ann Allen|Mar 22, 2024|4 Min Read

Dying

Catholics call for vigilance as more legislatures advance medically assisted suicide bills

Kimberley Heatherington|Mar 6, 2024|7 Min Read

Minnesota

Minnesota doctors, people with disabilities, pro-life leaders oppose assisted suicide bill

OSV News|Feb 28, 2024|6 Min Read

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