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Almost 350 clinicians working in palliative care signed a letter to Heath Secretary Wes Streeting urging him not to withdraw funding from hospices that refuse to provide assisted suicide. MP Kim Leadbeater’s Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill is being debated today in the House of Commons at Third…
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Amid a growing chorus of concern over the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, on Friday 20 June, the House of Commons is set to decide whether assisted suicide will be legalised in England and Wales. Once the Bill has had its Third Reading next Friday, it will move…
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Conservative MP Greg Stafford seeks to ban the Sacro Pod, the invention of Philip Nitschke, also known as “Dr Death”.
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They said it could not support the Bill as its members would be included in the assisted suicide process.
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The letter slammed Leadbeater’s Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill as a “real threat to both patients and the medical workforce”.
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The woman, known as Amy, called a suicide hotline because she was suffering from suicidal thoughts.
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More Labour MPs have signalled that they intend to vote against Leadbeater’s Bill.
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Speaking to French pilgrims at the Vatican on 4 June, Pope Leo XIV appeared to call out France’s National Assembly’s vote to legalise assisted suicide.
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Christians around the UK will come together in prayer next week ahead of a crucial vote on MP Kim Leadbeater’s Bill.
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An assisted suicide advocate has killed himself following his arrest for the alleged murder of a woman killed in the Sarco Pod in Switzerland.
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A leading palliative care doctor has slammed MP Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide bill as “deeply dangerous” ahead of a decisive vote in Westminster later this month. Dr Amy Proffitt is a palliative care expert and vocal critic of Leadbeater’s Terminally Ill Adults (End Of Life) Bill, set to be debated…
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A leading UK bioethics centre has slammed a recent Whitehall impact assessment of assisted suicide, calling it a “truly sinister document…that sets no value on protecting life”. A Whitehall cost analysis of MP Kim Leadbeater’s draft assisted suicide bill recently concluded that it would save the NHS money by expediting…
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Another MP has revealed that he is likely to vote against Kim Leadbeater’s Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill because of ongoing concerns about inadequate palliative care and vulnerable people feeling pressured to take their lives.
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France’s National Assembly has approved an assisted suicide bill that will send people to prison for obstructing a patient’s decision to die. On 27 May, France’s lower house voted 305 to 199 to legalise assisted suicide for adults suffering from an incurable illness “at an advanced or terminal stage”. The…
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The Secretary of State for Justice has warned that MP Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide bill is being rushed through Parliament without adequate scrutiny.
