Patients approved for euthanasia should be allowed to ask doctors to kill them by removing their organs, a group of North American academics have argued.

In an article published by The New England Journal of Medicine, bioethicists Dr Robert D Truog and Dr Carter Winberg of Harvard Medical School, and Dr Ian Ball of Western University of Canada, said organs would be in a better condition if removed while a patient was still alive.

The authors called for jurisdictions where organ donation after euthanasia is legal — Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, and Canada — to consider allowing euthanasia by organ donation.

Truog, Winberg and Ball expressed frustration that current safeguards prevented “‘heart-beating’ euthanasia”, where death is “caused directly by removal of vital organs before cardiorespiratory function ceases”.

Truog told US media outlet NPR: “Why would it not be OK for patients to say, ‘I’ve chosen to die by a lethal injection. Isn’t there some way I can help others?’ They should be able to donate organs”.

He added: “I would say a more appropriate framework is that for patients who are choosing to die from euthanasia they could also choose to have euthanasia linked with organ donation.”

Have you ever seen a more slippery slope?

A shockling new video from pro-life group 4MyCanada has highlighted the devastating impact of abortion on the country since 1969. 

The video, released by 4MyCanada on its YouTube channel, is entitled “Just the Facts -Did Canada Commit Suicide by Abortion? Birth Rate Dips Below Extinction Rate.”

“Abortion was not good for Canada. It’s killing us,” says the narrator in the video, going on to add that the reality is, it is one of the “most uncomfortable issues in our national conversation.”

“Many Canadians hold deeply held pro-life convictions because of our faith. Others don’t. So rather than debating the procedure itself, the impacts on women and families, or the moral positions surrounding it, let’s simply look at the facts and the math.”

The video noted that since abortion became legal in Canada in 1969, “Canada has no nationwide criminal law restricting abortion at any stage of pregnancy.”

“We are the only Western nation with no laws on abortion. Based on Government of Canada statistics, an estimated 4.8 million abortions have taken place since legalization. However, statisticians widely acknowledge that these figures are incomplete.”

Abortion was decriminalized in Canada in 1969 when then-Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau (Justin Trudeau’s father) passed a heavily criticized omnibus bill that amended the Criminal Code to allow abortions to be done in hospitals under permissive circumstances.

This law remained in effect until the Supreme Court of Canada struck it down and labeled it unconstitutional in the 1988 Morgentaler decision. The law was removed on a technicality, with the court ruling that it violated a woman’s right to “security of the person” because it could not be applied equally across the country.

After the decision was issued, the court encouraged Parliament to produce replacement abortion legislation. This effort failed when then-Prime Minister Brian Mulroney’s draft law was dismissed in a Senate tie vote on May 30, 1990, as referenced in Wilkinson’s video. The law, known as Bill C-43 (An Act respecting abortion), satisfied “neither pro-life nor abortion advocates,” according to Campaign Life Coalition.

Since the 1990 Senate vote, Canada has had no abortion law at all, allowing the deadly practice through all nine months of pregnancy for any reason.

The video by 4MyCanada noted that, as abortion clinics are not “required to report their data,” as it is “voluntary,” the true number of deaths from the procedure is more. “National totals do not include abortions carried out using the abortion pill.”

“When we examine Canadian demographic trends over the past 5 1/2 decades, a clear picture emerges of the impact. Many of the children aborted in those early decades would now be parents and some even grandparents,” the narrator stated in the video.

Broken down, this means that when one considers “lost children and grandchildren” and using “conservative demographic modeling,” it’s estimated that more “than 6.13 million Canadians are missing from our population today because of abortion.”

“This figure is almost certainly understated,” the group noted.

The video observed that if these Canadians had been allowed to be born, they would have represented a minimum of “nine percent of today’s Canadian workforce, or approximately 2.1 million workers.”

“That workforce would include an estimated 840 surgeons, 3,800 lawyers, 5,000 pastors and ministers, more than 5,000 inventors and innovators, 6,300 doctors, 21,000 engineers, 24,000 law enforcement professionals, more than 31,000 agricultural workers, nearly 40,000 registered nurses, almost 59,000 teachers, and well over 200,000 skilled tradespeople, 231,000 entrepreneurs,” the video explained.

The video narrator for 4MyCanada noted that these numbers are not just “statistics” but represent people who “could have helped meet many of Canada’s growing labour shortages and populations’ health care and security needs.”

“For decades, governments have attempted to offset demographic decline through immigration. Immigration is valuable and has contributed greatly to Canada, but from a demographic standpoint, it cannot fully replace the population structure lost through abortion,” the video stated.

According to 4MyCanada, if 100,000 babies are not born in “a given year, replenishing that exact age group would require 100,000 babies to immigrate, not adults.”

“When families immigrate, they naturally arrive with parents and relatives of different ages, changing the demographic structure rather than replenishing it. The demographic which is lost no longer exists to undergird the aging population. The mathematics simply are not identical,” the group said.

When it comes to lost revenue in taxes, the group estimates that the total “federal tax revenue not collected because of the aborted Canadians totaled approximately $1.3 trillion at the end of 2024.”

“Ironically, Canada’s federal debt at March 31, 2024, stood at approximately $1.236 trillion,” the group highlighted in the video.

The video also raised concerns about Canada’s low birth rate. It has plunged to an all-time low for the second year in a row and shows no signs of improving anytime soon.

According to Statistics Canada’s latest births and still births data from 2024, the nation’s official fertility rate is 1.25 children per woman, lower than in 2023, which was 1.26 children per woman.

“What kind of financial burden are we leaving to our children and to our grandchildren? But the issue extends beyond economics. A healthy civilization requires a birth rate of approximately 2.1 children per woman simply to replace itself,” the video asked.

“Before abortion was legalized, Canada’s fertility rate was well above replacement. Within a few years after that, it had fallen below the replacement rate of 2.1. Apart from a modest recovery during the years when more family-supportive public policies were in place, the long-term trend has continued downward. In 2019, the abortion pill became publicly funded across every province and territory, expanding access nationwide.”

After being legalized in 2016 by the government of former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, euthanasia in Canada has become rampant and commonplace.

Likewise, current Prime Minister Mark Carney has worked to expand euthanasia 13-fold since it was legalized in 2016. Canada now has the fastest-growing assisted suicide program in the world. Meanwhile, Health Canada has released a series of studies on advanced requests for assisted suicide.

A legal victory for Pro-Life campaigners in Michigan could echo even to the UK.  A federal judge has just blocked a Michigan law that could require pro-life groups to hire pro-abortion employees. The law could also require pro-life groups to cover the killing of preborn babies through its health insurance plans.

Federal District Judge Robert Jonker ruled on July 10 in favor of Right to Life of Michigan and its challenge to the “Elliot-Larsen Civil Rights Act.” Due to a regulatory change in 2023, Michigan now requires employers to respect an employee’s so-called “right to the termination of a pregnancy.”

The requirement sets up logically absurd conclusions, as highlighted in Jonker’s decision.

He wrote:

What if Weight Watchers—an organization devoted to helping people lose weight by changing their habits—were forced to provide weight loss drugs like Ozempic? Would that benefit not compromise the organization’s mission?

What if Christian Scientists—a group that believes in spiritual healing over medical treatment—were forced to provide health insurance? Would that also not comprise the group’s anti-healthcare mission? Or what if Not Dead Yet—an advocacy group that opposes assisted suicide and euthanasia—were eventually forced to provide euthanasia or assisted suicide services as part of its health care packages? Would that also not compromise the group’s anti-euthanasia mission?

The decision sides with the pro-life groups, which also include an organization called Pregnancy Resource Center, and establishes a temporary injunction. The Michigan Supreme Court must first address certain questions before the case can return to the federal judiciary.

Both Right to Life of Michigan and its attorneys at Alliance Defending Freedom praised the ruling.

“The court’s decision is a welcome reprieve and reaffirms our fundamental right to hire employees who agree with our life-affirming mission. Any attempt by state officials to force organizations like Right to Life of Michigan to employ staff who do not agree with our fundamental mission is a wild misuse of power and defies common sense,” Amber Roseboom, Right to Life of Michigan’s president, stated in comments shared with LifeSiteNews.

She criticized “the radical abortion-only response to unplanned pregnancy that Democrats in our state continue to push.”

“Seeking to undermine organizations that offer life-saving choices is counterintuitive,” Roseboom said. “For choice to truly exist, every woman must have the opportunity to make a choice for life if she would like to do so.”

US judicial rulings do not automatically enter English common law, but they are classified as 'obiter dicta', so they can be quoted in legal arguments and carry weight which pushes an English court towards the same conclusion.

Britain's top doctors' body has wieghed in on the euthanasia debate. The British Medical Association (BMA) has affirmed that “assisted dying is not a medical treatment”, highlighting many of the issues with legislating in this area that will be of concern for MPs.

The BMA, the professional association and trade union representing and negotiating on behalf of all doctors in the UK, agreed at its Annual Representative Meeting last month that any legislation around assisted suicide should specify that “assisted dying is not a medical treatment”, and that it “must not alter the fundamental principles of the NHS”. 

Motions passed at the Meeting also agreed that any assisted suicide legislation must be opt-in, to ensure that “no doctor would be required to have any involvement” with assisted suicide. The organisation affirmed that any assisted suicide legislation must explicitly protect the rights of medical students and doctors to not be forced to participate in any aspect of assisted suicide.

With regard to funding, the BMA agreed that any assisted suicide regime should be required to be funded separately from core NHS practices, and “must not result in any de-prioritisation or reduction of funding for core general practice, mental health, or palliative care services”.

The large liberal body in the European Parliament are shocked by the forthright views of brave pro-life Cardinal Robert Sarah.  during a conference speech before the European Parliament on Wednesday, he denounced gender ideology and Islamic fundamentalism as “apocalyptic beasts” that threaten to destroy the family and humanity itself.

In the conference in the EU Parliament building entitled, “Europe and Africa: In Dialogue with Cardinal Robert Sarah,” which also included speeches delivered by European Parliament Vice-President Antonella Sburi and the apostolic nuncio to the European Union, Archbishop Bernardito Auza, the Guinean prelate slammed the evils of abortion, homosexual “marriage,” gender ideology, and Islamic fundamentalism and their impact on Africa, Europe, and all of society.

While decrying the fact that the UN, as well as European and other Western powers, have sought to impose gender ideology on African nations in exchange for financial aid, Cardinal Sarah echoed remarks that he made during the 2015 Synod on the Family that gender ideology, as well as Islamic fundamentalism, are “apocalyptic beasts.”

“In 2015, during the Synod on the Family, I said, and I do not take back a single word today, that ‘gender ideology and Islamic fundamentalism each represent, in their own way, two apocalyptic beasts that threaten to destroy not only the family, but humanity itself, the image of God,'” he said.

An American-born Catholic teacher in Scotland was fired for telling her pupils that, because of her religion, she opposes abortion. 

Sarah Morse, 66, lost her job at Arbroath High School in November 2025 and is now taking legal action against the Angus Council, the local government authority.

Morse had been asked by curious 14–15 year-old students her opinions concerning a wide range of topics, including abortion, transgender issues, ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement), and President Donald Trump.

The Georgia-born teacher explained that she is against abortion but told the class it was “fine to disagree” with her view.  

Morse told her class “I am a faithful Roman Catholic and I am against it.” 

She was then summoned to the school office at the end of the day and said that she was “stunned” to find that she had been fired for her statements just hours before. 

“I was summarily dismissed … I was not offered any sort of right of reply, asked for my account of what happened or how my legally protected beliefs were raised in the context of a history class, and the head teacher wouldn’t even see me,” Morse told The Sunday Times. 

“To be ‘canceled’ and lose my livelihood because of my religious identity is a terrifying precedent for the teaching profession in Scotland,” she said, according to The Times.

Oreland's abortion Holocaust continues to gather pace. Figures released by the Department of Health in Ireland show there were 10,600 abortions in Ireland in 2025, a 59.02% increase since legislation introducing abortion on demand came into effect in 2019, when 6,666 abortions took place. This brings the total from 2019 until the end of 2025 to almost 60,000 abortions. 

Before new abortion legislation came into effect in Ireland in 2019, the number of abortions that took place in England and Wales for women who were Irish residents in 2018 was 2,879. A further 32 abortions were reported to have taken place in Ireland under the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act, taking the total number of abortions for Irish residents in 2018 to 2,911.

The latest available data, for the year 2023, shows that 235 residents of the Irish Republic travelled to England and Wales for an abortion. In the same year, Irish abortion statistics show that 10,033 abortions took place in Ireland, and of these, 9 were for women who had travelled from Northern Ireland.

Commenting on the figures, Eilís Mulroy of the Irish pro-life group Pro Life Campaign said “The latest figures are deeply concerning. The fact that 10,600 abortions occurred in Ireland in a single year is a very sobering indictment of how Ireland’s abortion regime is operating. It means that 1 in every 6 babies in Ireland now loses their life to abortion”.

“8 years on from the introduction of abortion, incredibly, there is still no State-backed service whose sole purpose is to ensure that women conflicted about having an abortion can access timely information and practical support if they wish to continue their pregnancy. The State-funded agencies responsible for addressing unplanned pregnancy operate as a de facto fast-track service to abortion. Even a cursory review of these agencies’ websites suggests that their structures are overwhelmingly geared towards abortion”. 

Jersey has legalised euthanasia. The British island's proposed law that allows adults who are terminally ill to commit suicide with the assistance of a doctor has been granted Royal Assent after the bill was approved by the island’s self-governing legislature in February.

The autonomous island under the British Crown, located 14 miles off the Cotentin Peninsula of northwest France in the English Channel, will become the first of the British Isles and the first British territory to legalize assisted suicide.

Minister of Health and Social Services Tom Binet expressed his delight over the Royal Assent being granted: “Our focus now is on continuing our work to get the service set up and running.”

The “Assisted Dying Law” will come into force once it is registered at the Jersey Royal Court. It is expected to come into effect next year.

In November 2021, Jersey’s States Assembly decided that “assisted dying” should be allowed “in principle.” In May 2024, it voted in favor of drawing up laws for assisted suicide after the government announced its plan to introduce the practice. In February this year, the law was passed in a 32-to-16 vote.

The far-left American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is pouring $25 million into the USA's 2026 midterm elections, under the guise of advancing “key civil rights issues.”

The ACLU announced on July 6 that it and its Voter Education Fund are spending $13 million to “educate” voters in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, and North Carolina on candidates for state legislature, state supreme courts, and secretary of state races; plus $12.5 million on ballot measures pertaining to “expanding the right to vote, protecting the right to abortion, fighting back against anti-trans measures, and protecting state courts from politicized judicial selections” in Kansas, Missouri, Montana, and Virginia.

“This isn’t just hypothetical: officials across the country have taken action to protect their residents from attacks on our rights and freedoms,” the group declared. “Through our Firewall for Freedom initiative, our efforts have helped secure over 135 executive, legislative, or municipal actions.”

The massive interference in the elections comes on top of $2 million announced by Planned Parenthood Action Fund to target nine vulnerable Republican incumbents in the House of Representatives and a $23.5 voter mobilization campaign launched by Reproductive Freedom for All (the group formerly known as NARAL).