Alex Schadenberg Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Dr Ramona Coelho An excellent interview of Dr Ramona Coelho by Jonathon Van Maren was published in the European Conservative on April 24, 2024.  As stated by Van Maren, Dr Coelho is a family physician in London, Ontario, with a practice largely serving marginalized patients, she has testified before Parliament, laid out the dangers of legal euthanasia on TV and in print, and presciently warned policymakers of many of the scenarios we now see unfolding. Dr Coelho is a leading voice opposing Canada's euthanasia re ..read more

Dear Senator EPC-USA's Fact Sheet is testimony regarding the social harms attached to assisted suicide legislation like HB1283. However, given that assisted suicide’s negative impact is going to fall primarily on the disabled community, the EPC felt that we should submit a more detailed analysis of how assisted suicide undermines disability rights, and whose advice on this matter ought to be heeded by members of the Assembly. Members of the EPC board with training in the fields of disability studies and advocacy have noted that some assisted suicide advocates are trying to hijack disability ..read more

This letter was sent to elected representatives in the British Parliament and shared with EPC. Ann Farmer Dear ...  As your constituent I am writing to draw your attention to the above debate, in the hope that you will be able to attend and speak against attempts to legalise assisted suicide/euthanasia, now going under the euphemism 'assisted dying'. Given the appalling outcomes reported from those jurisdictions that have gone down this route, most notoriously Canada, where 'strict safeguards' have been swiftly dismantled to allow death for disability and also poverty, https://a ..read more

Alex Schadenberg Executive Director Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Amy Smith While cleaning up my emails I came across this excellent commentary by Amy Smith, who is a physician-assistant in Minnesota titled: Pledge to 'do no harm' and say No to physician-assisted suicide. Smith's commentary was published in the Minnesota Reformer on April 13, 2024. Smith begins her article by explaining why she opposes assisted suicide. I’ve spent the past 20 years of my career as a physician assistant saving lives in the emergency department. On a daily basis, I pledge to “do no harm” to my patien ..read more

Alex Schadenberg Executive Director,  Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Professor David Jones Georgia Edkins, the Scottish Political Editor for the Daily Mail reported on April 20, 2024 that 16 year-olds with Anorexia could be approved for assisted suicide under Scotland's assisted dying bill. Edkins reports: Teenagers with anorexia could apply for state-backed ‘suicide’ under ‘extremely dubious’ laws proposed in Scotland, experts warned last night. Newly published Holyrood legislation would allow NHS patients to request prescriptions for a life-ending cocktail of drugs that indu ..read more

The following Letter to the Editor was published on April 20, 2024 by The News Gazette. As a physician, I would like to share my perspective on physician-assisted suicide. While I agree with common concerns like abuse, misdiagnosis, medication issues and lack of safeguards, I want to focus on another aspect, especially from an emergency physician’s standpoint. With over three decades of practicing emergency medicine, I have encountered numerous patients at the end of their lives. In emergency medicine, our aim is to cure whenever possible, but above all, to provide care. Sometimes, this ent ..read more

The following article was published by Choice is an Illusion. California Senate Chamber Senator Catherine Blakespear has removed proposed Senate Bill 1196, seeking to expand assisted suicide and euthanasia in California, from consideration prior to its first hearing Blakespear said in a statement. "At this point, there is a reluctance from many around me to take up this discussion, and the future is unclear,” “The topic, however, remains of great interest to me and to those who have supported this bill thus far.” Senator Susan Eggman, who authored the original act in 2016, commented ..read more

Gordon Friesen By Gordon Friesen President: Euthanasia Prevention Coalition  It is a widely shared principle that, as long as our actions cause no harm to others, we might all be allowed to do as we please. And so it is that many principled people --and even many who are personally repulsed by the idea of assisted death-- feel a visceral duty to support the "right" of others to choose the manner of their own passing. Unfortunately, however, HB 1283 would not merely create a liberty of permission for this purpose. Indeed far from it. At the heart of HB-1283[i] lies, first, the c ..read more

Alex Schadenberg Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Kevin Yuill Kevin Yuill, who is an emeritus professor of history at the University of Sunderland and CEO of Humanists Against Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia (HAASE) was published in Spiked on April 18, 2024 is asking the question: Why are Dutch doctors euthanising healthy young women? Yuill begins his article by telling the stories of Yolanda Fun and Zoraya ter Beek: Jolanda Fun is scheduled to die next week on her 34th birthday. As such, she has been able to prepare the funeral invites in advance. ‘Born from lov ..read more

Alex Schadenberg Alex Schadenberg Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition I have great news. The California assisted suicide expansion bill (SB 1196) has been pulled and is now dead.  This is great news, but let's be clear, the language of SB 1196 is the goal of the assisted suicide lobby but was determined to have gone too far too fast. Based on the summary of SB 1196 by Senator Blakespear I stated that the bill would have: Allowed euthanasia by IV (intravenous), as in Canada. Currently, California permits assisted suicide (lethal poison that a person takes or ..read more