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JUSTTHENEWS (The Center Square Staff) - Disability-rights advocates sue Illinois over physician-assisted suicide law

The law, signed by Gov. J.B. Pritzker last December, is set to go into effect on Sept. 12.

DAILYCALLER (Spencer Lombardo) - Illinois’ Assisted Suicide Law Preys On The Disabled, Lawsuit Alleges

'The perception that ... she is better off dead, is discrimination'

NYTIMES (Norimitsu Onishi and Hubert Hayaud) - How Quebec Left the Church and Became the World Leader in Assisted Dying

A society once strongly Roman Catholic has rejected the church’s prohibition on euthanasia, with many instead viewing control over one’s death as an individual right.

THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Theodore Dalrymple) - Fighting the Law

An enterprising assisted-suicide practitioner’s great sin: skipping the bureaucracy. The post Fighting the Law appeared first on The American Conservative .

Takimag Fighting the Law An enterprising assisted-suicide practitioner’s great sin: skipping the bureaucracy. TakiMag (Photo by Vuk Valcic/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) There is a certain irony, not to say hypocrisy, in the fact that a man called Kenneth Law, with a history of various occupations, should have been tried in Canada on a charge of having assisted 14 suicides (though he assisted many more, over 70 in England and Wales alone). For Canada is one of the great proponents and practitioners of that enlightened practice. For example, one in 12 deaths in Quebec is now by assisted suicide. …Open

THEFEDERALIST (Andrew Kooman) - Canada’s State-Sponsored Suicide, Now Available At Your Local Drive-Thru

Canada’s ‘Dr. Death and Donuts’ practices at the same clinic as my family physician. My own child has been treated by him.

NPR (The Associated Press) - Happy, who taught researchers that elephants can recognize themselves, is euthanized

Happy, a Bronx Zoo elephant who gave researchers new insight into the animal's behavior and became the crux of a closely watched animal rights case, has been euthanized at age 55.