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Last week, the state of Arkansas became the first state in the nation to effectively ban gender-affirming care for transgender and gender diverse youth. The law, H.B. 1570, prohibits youth under the age of 18 from receiving transitional or puberty-blocking hormones and surgery, and allows private insurers to refuse gender-affirming care. The law has no [...]

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Spain’s parliament voted Thursday to legalize euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide in a 230-140 vote while two abstained. The bill would allow terminally ill patients to choose between euthanasia — performed by a health care professional — or assisted suicide at home with physician-prescribed lethal medications.  Lawmakers are set to vote on a final decision before [...]

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Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court ruled on Wednesday that individuals have a right to a self-determined death. This ruling overturns a previous ban on professionally-assisted suicide. Section 217 of the German Criminal Code previously provided punishments of up to three years of imprisonment or a fine to anyone who, with the intention to help another individual [...]

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California’s 4th District Court of Appeal on Wednesday denied a request to stay a lower court ruling that threatens to invalidate the state’s End of Life Option Act which allows physicians to prescribe life-ending drugs to the terminally ill. California Attorney General Xavier Beccera sought to block last week’s ruling from Judge Daniel Ottolia of [...]

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Judge Daniel Ottolia, of Riverside County Superior Court, ruled against California’s End of Life Option Act on Tuesday, which allowed physicians to prescribe life-ending drugs to terminally ill patients. The suit was brought by the Life Legal Defense Foundation , a Christian legal organization that opposes abortion and assisted suicide. Ottolia ruled that the End [...]

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