Tag: physician-assisted suicide
Adherence to ‘safeguards’ falling away as physician-assisted suicide fails to meet...
When supporters of physician-assisted suicide announced in 1993 that they would sponsor a ballot initiative to legalize it in Oregon, they had bigger plans...
Delaware Democrats narrowly push physician-assisted suicide out of legislative committee; Carney...
Delaware’s House Bill 140 that would legalize physician-assisted suicide narrowly passed the House Human Development Committee Jan. 19 after a three-hour virtual hearing that...
Physician-assisted suicide proposal in Delaware faces opposition from Catholics, other groups
Legislators in Delaware are again attempting to approve legislation that would legalize physician-assisted suicide in the state.
House Bill 140 will be the topic of...
‘Life is a Human Right’ message delivered at this year’s Delaware...
More than 70 people took part in the Delaware March for Life in Dover on Thursday, Jan. 13, to advocate for the protection of...
Maryland Catholic Conference set to work virtually with legislators amid pandemic
By Christopher Gunty
Catholic Review
The staff of the Maryland Catholic Conference will find it a little more difficult to work with legislators in Annapolis as...
Patricia Kelly, Maryland Catholic Conference lobbyist and Catholic pro-life advocate, dies...
BALTIMORE -- Patricia Kelly, a tireless advocate for the pro-life cause whose gentle but persistent lobbying efforts helped secure a ban on physician-assisted suicide...
After a year of physician-assisted suicide in New Jersey, Bishop James...
METUCHEN, N.J. (CNS) -- More than a year after the Medical Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act took effect in New Jersey,...
New Jersey appeals court lifts ban on physician-assisted suicide law
TRENTON, N.J. -- A New Jersey state appeals court allowed a new law permitting assisted suicide to continue, overturning a lower court decision that...
Bishop James Checchio decries legalization of physician-assisted suicide in New Jersey
METUCHEN, N.J. -- New Jersey's new law allowing assisted suicide, effective Aug. 1, "points to an "utter failure" on the part of government and...
American Medical Association draws praise from USCCB as it reaffirms opposition...
WASHINGTON -- The chairman of the U.S. bishops' pro-life committee praised a June 10 decision by the American Medical Association to reaffirm its long-standing...