Catholic Medical Quarterly Vol 76 (3) August 2026
News
Slovenia rejects euthanasia law by passing referendum (53% to 47%).
Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition wrote on Sunday, November 23, 2025: "I have incredible news to share."
The
Slovenian referendum campaign to prevent the implementation of the
Slovenian euthanasia law won by a vote of 53% to 47%. Lives will be saved
and people will be protected from being poisoned to death in Slovenia.
Slovenia passed a euthanasia law in July. In response a citizens group organized a signature campaign and collected 46,000 signatures enabling them to challenge the euthanasia law through a referendum.
The 53% to 47% victory overturns the euthanasia law and once again
protects Slovenians from being killed by poison. Bojan Kavcic reported
for the Citizen Tribune that:
Ales Primc, the head of Voice for the
Children and the Family, the NGO that organised the no vote campaign,
reacted to the results saying "solidarity and justice" had won.
"Slovenia rejected the government's health, pension and social reforms
based on death and poisoning," Primc was cited as saying by the Slovenian
news agency STA.
The referendum required at least 20% of the 1.7
million eligible voters to support the referendum. Kavcic reported that
the voter turnout was 40.9% meaning that the referendum validly rejected
the Slovenian euthanasia law.
The euthanasia lobby has promised to bring forth another legalization bill but the referendum result means that the government cannot introduce another euthanasia bill for at least 12 months.
The campaign followed a straight forward set of talking points and didn't get into any other issues.
The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition congratulates everyone who successfully worked on the referendum campaign and we are thankful that we had the opportunity to be intimately involved by sharing articles, interviews and video footage with the campaign.
Slovenia showed us how an organized and focused campaign can be successful even when facing a massive campaign with incredible funding from pro-euthanasia groups.
In January 2024 I had the opportunity to speak in Slovenia and counter the pro-euthanasia rhetoric that they were facing. At that time I met with politicians, several media outlets, including television news interview shows and spoke to a large audience in Ljubljana, Slovenia's capital to oppose the Slovenian euthanasia bill, which was very similar to Canada's euthanasia law.
Thank you Ales, Nuno and the campaign team who enabled us to help make a difference and prevent a law giving Slovenian doctors the right to poison their citizens to death. You have shown us the way.
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