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A healthcare expert has warned that vulnerable people could be coerced into assisted suicide by families seeking quick insurance payouts.
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On 24 October, SPUC held its annual Candlelight Procession through the streets of Glasgow, Scotland.
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Senedd members have rejected a non-binding motion supporting an assisted suicide law. SPUC has called the result a “significant” victory for vulnerable people who would be targeted by such a law.
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Health Secretary Wes Streeting says he will vote against fellow Labour MP Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide bill because he is concerned about the state of palliative care in the UK.
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Why do people support a change in the law on assisted suicide? According to Professor David Albert Jones, director of the Anscombe Centre for Bioethics in Oxford, the most common reasons are; avoiding a bad death involving pain, allowing choice, and to provide safeguards for something which is already happening.
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Scottish First Minister John Swinney says he is worried that a proposed assisted suicide bill would apply to 16-year-olds.
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Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer “spared” a doctor who was arrested for assisting in the death of a man in 2009.
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Adam Smith-Connor, an army veteran and bereaved father, has been found guilty of praying for his dead son outside an abortion facility and breaching buffer zones. “All I did was pray to God”, he said after the ruling.
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Palliative care doctors on the frontline of end-of-life medicine in the UK are overwhelmingly against Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide bill that will be voted on at the end of November, despite safety and ethical concerns.
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Do not give doctors the right “to kill you”, Alex Schadenberg warned delegates at SPUC’s one-day conference in London, where he shared numerous horror stories about assisted suicide in Canada.
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The first vote on MP Kim Leadbeater’s proposed assisted suicide bill will take place on 29 November.
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In their bid to select a new leader to replace Rishi Sunak, Conservative MPs have wittled down the candidates from six to two.
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A murder investigation has been opened after a young woman was allegedly euthanised by a doctor and two nurses using a pillow following a botched attempt at palliative care.
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MPs will vote on an assisted suicide bill for England and Wales for the first time in nine years. SPUC has called on Parliament to reject the proposed law, which “poses an unacceptable mortal threat to vulnerable citizens.
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SPUC’s one-day conference in London on Saturday was a resounding success after delegates heard moving testimonies from guest speakers and SPUC staff about abortion’s life-denying ethic. “This is the moral issue of our age”, said SPUC CEO John Deighan.
