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SPUC urges Scots to lobby MSPs against “dangerous” assisted suicide bill, vote expected in two weeks
SPUC is urging Scots to speak to their MSPs to warn against the threat posed by Liam McArthur’s assisted suicide bill, with a first vote now expected on 13 May.
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Disabled people are “absolutely terrified” by proposed assisted suicide laws, Paralympian Tanni Grey-Thompson told a Westminster event this week before another vote on MP Kim Leadbeater’s Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill.
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Today, 17th April 2025, SPUC delivered its “YES to our hospices, NO to assisted suicide” postcard petition to Prime Minister Keir Starmer at No. 10 Downing Street. The petition was signed by 9,272 people.
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A Canadian man who was injured in a workplace accident, and then denied surgery, which he begged for, has been granted Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) on request. “Today I received a photo and post from a Dr friend of mine, who pointed out the most wild case of MAiD…
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Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson spoke at SPUC’s Lives Worth Living event in Middlesbrough last Friday to warn against MP Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide bill that threatens disabled people. Baroness Grey-Thompson, one of the greatest Paralympians of all time, amassed 11 gold medals, four silvers and one bronze in the wheelchair…
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The UK Catholic Medical Association (CMA) has slammed MP Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide bill, saying that it will make patients accessing healthcare “fear for their safety”.
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The Committee stage of Kim Leadbeater’s Terminally Ill (Adults) End of Life bill has now ended.
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The Health Secretary has said that he will vote against Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide bill after voicing concerns about coercion and funding “implications” for the NHS and palliative care.
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Legal experts have warned that MSP Liam McArthur’s Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill “may be beyond the powers of the Scottish Parliament” to enact, and even if passed, “the new law would be either unworkable or extremely dangerous”. Legal experts Mary Neal, Murray Earle and Michael Foran…
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Catholic Bishops’ Conference warns that assisted suicide will turn NHS into “national death service”
The pastoral letter, which will be read out in parishes in the Westminster archdiocese this weekend, urges Catholics to contact their respective MPs to oppose Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide bill for England and Wales.
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A UN committee has called for the repeal of assisted suicide in Canada for people who have no terminal illnesses, especially the disabled which, a report concluded, is discriminatory towards disability. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Committee published its report last month and recommended…
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Fr Hugh MacKenzie remains deeply concerned about the impact of this bill on his ministry to dying people.
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Labour MP Kim Leadbeater has been accused of sending a “highly misleading email to MPs” about the depth of public support for assisted suicide in relation to her proposed Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill.
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In a letter to fellow Labour parliamentarians, a group of Labour MPs have called out the Leadbeater Bill as “irredeemably flawed and not fit to become law”.
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The roll-out of MP Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide bill, if legalised, has been delayed until 2029, casting doubt about whether the draft law will ever be implemented, though there are concerns that the delay will be spun by Ms Leadbeater to win over MPs troubled by the Bill.
