Sunday, November 23, 2025

Great news: Slovenia rejects euthanasia law by passing referendum (53% to 47%).

Alex Schadenberg
Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition

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.

Alex Schadenberg
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.

More articles on Slovenia
  • Slovenian interview with Alex Schadenberg and Theo Boer (Link). 
  • Bad news in Slovenia and Uruguay (Link). 
  • Has Slovenia legalized assisted suicide (Link). 
  • Slovenia debates assisted suicide. Doctors and medical groups oppose the bill (Link).

7 comments:

gordon friesen said...

To put this in context, Slovenia has a population of only 2,000,000 people. They have been fighting for national identity for hundreds and hundreds of years. Defeating euthanasia is another skirmish in that combat. The link below is to a youth music program in that country, performing an iconic nationalist hymn.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WuLFWOMfSk&list=PLoDy7tZFJnc2M5131mNK3YWK7jR-wpHlK
Enjoy!

Nuno Soares said...

Thank you very much Alex for your help in this incredible victory. Life won. the tragic examples from other countries who vital to mobilize our people. The common person took this matter very seriously after realizing the dangers that such law could bring to the country. information and a good campaign made the difference: In 2024 we lost in a consultative referendum collecting 45% of the votes, and 1 year after we won by 53%.

Anonymous said...

The antihuman agenda behind Medical Murder is not compassion- it’s pure economics. When people are reduced to “net worth” or mere commodities, the greedy and the ruthless will have no compunction about “unaliving” them.

Anonymous said...

Good news

Gordon Macdonald said...

Great news. Well done Nuno and the team.

Sharon Danley said...

This is fantastic news. BRAVO

Sick_Society said...

THIS IS A MAJOR RELIEF AND VICTORY AND I HOPE IT CONTINUES LIKE THIS IN SLOVENIA, AND I HOPE OTHER COUNTRIES CHANGE AND REVERSE THEIR BUTCHERING SO AS TO NOT KILL AND POISON AND ABUSE THE ILL, DISABLED, ELDERLY, AND VULNERABLE POPULATIONS THAT DID NOT JUST MAGICALLY APPEAR OUT OF NOWHERE & WHO DESERVE MORE THAN TO BE TOLD THEIR LIVES ARE POINTLESS AT THE SELFISH BENEFITS OF THOSE STATING SUCH LIES AS THEIR IS NO EXCUSE FOR ABUSE, KILLING, HOMICIDE, AND POISONING THAT THE ASSISTED KILLERS AND EUTHANASIA LIARS KEEP THREATENING!!!