Scholars weigh in on efforts in Illinois and other states to pass assisted suicide legislation following Canada's lead.

Illinois lawmakers filed more than 7,500 bills this spring session, and 615 of them crossed the finish line. While most bills ...

The debate has recently returned to the spotlight in New York, where the state Assembly passed a bill in April that would ...

Opponents, including some lawmakers, physician groups and the New York State Catholic Conference have cited numerous concerns ...

A bill that would allow doctors to administer a fatal dose of medicine to terminally ill patients has the votes to pass, said ...

A bill that would legally allow doctors to prescribe fatal doses of medication to terminally ill patients has stalled in the Illinois Senate.

Opponents of physician-assisted suicide legislation in Illinois are breathing a sigh of relief, but not for long because they say this is not the end of lawmakers' push for hastened deat ...

"Medical aid-in-dying" has become legalized in Delaware, Illinois, New Jersey, and New York, with other states trying to pass ...

A bill to legalize physician-assisted suicide stalled in the Illinois General Assembly last week amid ardent opposition from ...

Aid-in-dying legislation remains at the Illinois Statehouse after it failed to clear the Illinois Senate before legislators ...

The plan would let those with less than six months to live end their own lives with a physician’s help. Cardinal Blase Cupich ...

France is on track to become the latest European nation to legalize assisted suicide for adults suffering from severe ...