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Originally published in National Catholic Register Parliamentary scrutiny, grassroots mobilization, concern for vulnerable people, underfunded end-of-life care — and plenty of prayer — combined to halt the proposed law. A combination of crucial factors led to the defeat of proposed assisted-suicide legislation in England and Wales earlier this month, delivering […]
Originally published in The Christian Post Campaigners supporting improved palliative care have voiced their sadness after the Isle of Man parliament approved a draft bill to legalise assisted suicide. Members of the parliament’s upper chamber passed the Assisted Dying Bill 2023 on Tuesday and it will now be put forward […]
Human rights and public interest organisation, Cause for Justice, is participating as a “friend of the court” in an upcoming court case in which a medical doctor and her patient, both of whom have terminal illnesses, are challenging the criminal prohibition of euthanasia in South Africa law. Dr Suzanne Walter […]
Originally published in The Christian Institute New Zealand has voted to legalise euthanasia and assisted suicide, following a public referendum. The End of Life Choice Act was passed in the country’s parliament last year by 69 votes to 51, allowing doctors to administer or supply lethal doses of drugs to […]
Euthanasia activist Sean Davison might face multiple murder charges, the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court heard yesterday. The founder of euthanasia advocacy group Dignity SA was in court on a charge of premeditated murder in connection with the death of Anrich Burger in Cape Town in 2013 in an alleged assisted suicide […]
Judgment prevented ‘tragic social experiment’ The Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein yesterday (Tuesday December 6 2016) overturned a potentially far-reaching court order granting the medical profession permission to assist in the death of a terminal cancer patient, Robin Stransham-Ford. The successful appeal by the state against the judgment of the Gauteng […]
The Supreme Court of Appeal’s (SCA) decision on an appeal against a first-0f-its kind order by the High Court in Pretoria allowing assisted suicide will probably be released towards the end of the month, said Philip Rosenthal of Christian View Network. The SCA reserved judgment last Friday (November 4 2016) […]
The right of a terminally ill patient to request assisted suicide will be challenged by the Department of Health in the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) tomorrow (Friday November 4) in a case arising out of a High Court ruling last year allowing Advocate Robin Stransham-Ford to die with the assistance of […]
Originally published in IOL News In the High Court sitting in Pretoria Judge Hans Fabricius on Tuesday granted the government leave to appeal his earlier ruling in which he gave Cape Town advocate Robin Stransham-Ford permission to have a doctor assist him in dying. Is there a place for mercy […]
[notice]A monthly column by Michael Cassidy, evangelist, author, Christian leader and founder of African Enterprise whose ministry in Africa and the world has spanned more than 50 years.[/notice] The decision by the Dutch and Belgian Governments and a few others some years ago to legalise euthanasia or mercy killing put […]