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4% of All Belgian Deaths Due to Euthanasia

The proportion of deaths in Belgium caused by euthanasia has more than doubled over a five-year period, reaching 4% of all deaths in 2025, according to a report from the Federal Commission for the Control and Evaluation of Euthanasia released earlier this month.

According to a report released every two years as required under Belgian euthanasia law, there were 2,445 euthanasia deaths in 2020, accounting for 1.9% of all deaths in the region. However, the proportion of deaths in Belgium caused by euthanasia more than doubled by 2025, resulting in 4,487 deaths by euthanasia, accounting for 4% of all deaths in Belgium.

The report, which covers the two years of 2024 and 2025, also revealed there was a 12.43% increase in deaths by euthanasia from 2024, when 3,991 people ended their lives by euthanasia. Since 2003, the first full year in which euthanasia was legal in Belgium, when 235 people ended their lives by euthanasia, there has been a 1,809.36% increase in the number of people ending their lives this way.

Since euthanasia was made legal in Belgium in 2002, over 42,000 people have ended their lives this way.

Catholic Prince Saves Unborn Babies

For the first time in his 22-year reign, the hereditary prince of Liechtenstein has exercised his royal veto — to stop an abortion law.

Liechtenstein’s 25-seat Parliament, the Landtag, voted to legalise abortion by a single vote majority (13-12) on September 2. The scheme would have decriminalised abortion up until 12 weeks, eliminated the ban on providing information about abortion, and funded abortion under health insurance.

On October 20, the Princely House published a press release confirming the royal veto:

Hereditary Prince Alois of Liechtenstein has devoted considerable attention in recent months to the popular initiative proposing the introduction of a time-limit regime for abortion, as well as to broader issues relating to abortion, and has held numerous discussions on the subject. Following careful consideration, he remains convinced that the proposed reform is not compatible with ensuring adequate protection of unborn life as a fundamental legal value. The Hereditary Prince will therefore withhold his sanction from the bill adopted by the Landtag on 2 September 2026 introducing a timelimit regulation in Liechtenstein.

The Hereditary Prince, a devout Catholic, added that he would be “open to lifting the advertising ban and supports efforts to improve information, counselling and support for women before, during, and after pregnancy.”

The last time Prince Alois threatened to exercise the royal veto was in 2011, ahead of a previous abortion initiative; the referendum failed. Activists blamed Prince Alois’ threatened veto for the loss and launched a subsequent referendum to limit the royal veto in 2013. This also failed. Consistent with his pro-life principles and his royal obligation to protect the most vulnerable people in his small, landlocked country, Prince Alois has now used the veto for the first time.