Tag: physician-assisted suicide
No action taken after emotional testimony on Delaware physician-assisted suicide bill:...
Faith leaders, medical professionals and advocates for people with disabilities were among those with an emotional outpouring at Legislative Hall on May 8, standing...
Delaware legislators make another push for physician-assisted suicide
The Delaware legislature is again focusing its efforts on physician-assisted suicide and the Delaware Catholic Action Network, other faith-based groups and medical associations in...
New Jersey enacts ‘morally unacceptable’ law allowing assisted suicide, Cardinal Tobin...
NEWARK, N.J. -- Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin of Newark called New Jersey's new law allowing assisted suicide regrettable, saying "whatever its motives and means,"...
Maryland state government prepared to make physician-assisted suicide legal
By Maryland Catholic Conference
Catholics in Maryland need to sound the alarm, alerting all who care about the preservation of life to step up and...
Physician-assisted suicide passes Maryland House of Delegates by 74-66 vote
ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- The Maryland House of Delegates approved a bill March 7 to legalize physician-assisted suicide.
The bill, which passed with a 74-66 vote,...
Appeals court upholds decision overturning California assisted suicide
RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- A California appeals court has denied Attorney General Xavier Becerra's request for an immediate stay on a lower court ruling that...
California judge overturns state law legalizing assisted suicide
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- A May 15 ruling by a California judge overturning the state's law allowing assisted suicide is encouraging because it "was a...
Another failure for proponents of physician-assisted suicide in Delaware
A bill that would legalize physician-assisted suicide in Delaware failed last week to get legislative consideration, the second unsuccessful push this year.
House Bill 160,...
Bishop Malooly to lawmakers: Say no to physician-assisted suicide
The leader of more than 150,000 Catholics in the Diocese of Wilmington is urging voters to tell their legislators that government has no business...