Last month of May, the Portuguese parliament approved a bill legalizing euthanasia. It was approved with a comfortable majority: 129 votes against 81. The provisions of Portugal’s bill are similar to laws passed in the Netherlands and Belgium in 2002. Eligibles must be over 18, must be suffering from an incurable disease, must endure “lasting”…
On May 9, the TC with a leftist majority will approve the sentence drafted by magistrate Montalbán that endorses Zapatero’s abortion law The president of the Constitutional Court, Cándido Conde-Pumpido, is ignoring a complaint filed before the Court of Guarantees by 140 associations for breaching their duty to abstain in the appeal on abortion. On…
The NLTimes reported on April 14 that the Dutch government has agreed to extend euthanasia to children under the age of 12. The article states: Health Minister Ernst Kuipers announced in a press release on Friday that he expects the regulation to be implemented within the year. The new guidelines will probably only apply to about five…
On April 1, 2023, France’s National Council of the College of Physicians (l’Ordre des medecins) released a statement called “Fin de vie et rôle du médecin” (End of life and the doctor’s role), which is the result of nine months of reflection by its departmental and regional councils. In their statement, France’s National Council of the College…
There were a record number of euthanasia deaths in the Netherlands in 2022, with 8720 reported euthanasia deaths representing 5.1% of all deaths and an increase of 14% from last year. The Dutchnews.nl reported: The number of people dying in the Netherlands with the help of euthanasia rose nearly 14% last year to 8,720, according…
The Portugal Resident reported that Portugal’s Parliament passed a fourth euthanasia bill on March 31. Two of the previous bills were rejected by Portugal’s Constitutional Court and a third bill was vetoed by President Marcelo Rebello de Sousa. The Portugal Resident reported that: A new version of a law seeking to legalise euthanasia was approved in…
In February, in response to Opinion 139 of the National Ethics Advisory Council of France, thirteen organizations representing 800,000 French health workers rejected euthanasia, including doctors, nurses, auxiliary nurses. They published the document “Can causing death be considered care?”, which denounces the current situation in France in reference to euthanasia. “At a time when the French health…
Deaths by legal euthanasia increased more than twelvefold from 235 in 2003 to 2,966 in 2022. The increase just from 2021 to 2022 was 9.85%. Belgium euthanasia report. 2700 euthanasia deaths in 2021 (Link). Officially reported euthanasia accounted for 2.5% of all deaths in Belgium in 2022. Organ donation There were a total of 64 cases of…
A court in The Hague has ruled that “The Dutch government can continue to enforce its ban on assisted suicide.” The court case was filed by the organization called Cooperation for the last will to not agree with the prohibition of the Dutch government The organization Cooperation considered that the Dutch state violated international human…
The death industry is really about money. Clearly it’s cheaper to kill people than to give them health care, palliative care, home care, mental health care, etc. It’s about saving money, and in some cases, it’s even about making money. For example, Dying with Dignity. In 2021 they received $1,653,893 in donations (why would anyone donate to these…