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  • Catholic Bishops’ Conference warns that assisted suicide will turn NHS into “national death service”

    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.

    SPUC News
    April 3, 2025
  • UN report slams assisted suicide in Canada that targets disabled people, calls for repeal of MAiD for people with no terminal illnesses

    UN report slams assisted suicide in Canada that targets disabled people, calls for repeal of MAiD for people with no terminal illnesses

    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…

    SPUC News
    April 2, 2025
  • Assisted suicide bill is ‘anti-hope’ says hospice chaplain

    Assisted suicide bill is ‘anti-hope’ says hospice chaplain

    Fr Hugh MacKenzie remains deeply concerned about the impact of this bill on his ministry to dying people.

    SPUC News
    April 2, 2025
  • Kim Leadbeater accused of “misleading” MPs about public support for her assisted suicide bill

    Kim Leadbeater accused of “misleading” MPs about public support for her assisted suicide bill

    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.

    SPUC News
    March 27, 2025
  • Labour MPs slam Kim Leadbeater’s “flawed and dangerous” assisted suicide bill

    Labour MPs slam Kim Leadbeater’s “flawed and dangerous” assisted suicide bill

    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”.

    SPUC News
    March 27, 2025
  • Assisted suicide bill roll-out delayed after minister revolt against “unworkable” bill

    Assisted suicide bill roll-out delayed after minister revolt against “unworkable” bill

    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.

    SPUC News
    March 26, 2025
  • “Enormous” rise in euthanasia among mentally ill young people causes concern in the Netherlands

    “Enormous” rise in euthanasia among mentally ill young people causes concern in the Netherlands

    There has been an “enormous” rise in young people being euthanised in the Netherlands for the reason of mental health, including an autistic boy aged 16 to 18 suffering from depression, leading to doubts about the deadly practice. Nearly 10,000 people were killed by euthanasia in the Netherlands in 2024,…

    SPUC News
    March 25, 2025
  • Assisted suicide: a conveyor belt for the vulnerable

    Assisted suicide: a conveyor belt for the vulnerable

    Kim Leadbeater MP has proclaimed that her assisted dying bill will have “the world’s strongest safeguards”. Yet as the weeks go by, the news coming out of the Committee scrutinising this bill doesn’t match Ms Leadbeater’s claim. Those of us who are worried that legalising assisted suicide will send us…

    SPUC News
    March 25, 2025
  • Leadbeater Committee refuses opt-out for hospices not wanting to provide assisted suicide

    Leadbeater Committee refuses opt-out for hospices not wanting to provide assisted suicide

    MPs reviewing the Leadbeater Bill at Committee stage have voted against opt-outs for hospices that do not want to provide assisted suicide. MP Kim Leadbeater’s Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill for England and Wales proposes to legalise assisted suicide for terminally ill adults given six months to live.…

    SPUC News
    March 24, 2025
  • Kim Leadbeater admits that assisted suicide criteria could be expanded in future if legalised

    Kim Leadbeater admits that assisted suicide criteria could be expanded in future if legalised

    MP Kim Leadbeater has admitted for the first time that the eligibility criteria of her proposed assisted suicide bill could be expanded in the future. “That could happen”, she confessed on LBC on 21 March. Challenged by LBC’s Natasha Clark on whether the proposed law would create a “slippery slope”,…

    SPUC News
    March 21, 2025
  • Euthanasia surged by 17% in Belgium in 2024 and killed one child

    Euthanasia surged by 17% in Belgium in 2024 and killed one child

    Almost 4,000 people were killed by euthanasia in Belgium in 2024, a rise of nearly 17% in twelve months, according to official statistics showing that a minor (aged under 18) was also killed, bringing the total of euthanised children since 2014 to six. There were 3,991 euthanasia cases in Belgium…

    SPUC News
    March 21, 2025
  • GPs in revolt after Royal College decision to go “neutral” on assisted suicide

    GPs in revolt after Royal College decision to go “neutral” on assisted suicide

    Over 250 GPs have signed a letter to The Times condemning their Royal College’s decision to adopt a neutral position on assisted suicide as “grossly misrepresentative of GPs’ attitudes to assisted dying”.

    SPUC News
    March 19, 2025
  • Labour MP Naz Shah forced to leave assisted suicide committee early “because of disability” exposes “shocking lack of empathy for disabled people”, says SPUC

    Labour MP Naz Shah forced to leave assisted suicide committee early “because of disability” exposes “shocking lack of empathy for disabled people”, says SPUC

    Labour MP Naz Shah was forced to leave fellow MP Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide committee yesterday because her hearing aids ran out of charge after 15 hours of use. Shaz had raised her disability needs “repeatedly” before.

    SPUC News
    March 19, 2025
  • Royal College of General Practitioners takes neutral stance on assisted suicide, contrary to opinion of most GPs

    Royal College of General Practitioners takes neutral stance on assisted suicide, contrary to opinion of most GPs

    The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) has taken a neutral position on assisted suicide for the first time in its history, despite opposition among GPs increasing in recent years. A poll of GPs found that only a third of GPs support legalisation. A poll of thousands of UK GPs…

    SPUC News
    March 17, 2025
  • British Medical Association says assisted suicide is not healthcare and presents “serious moral hazards to consultants”

    British Medical Association says assisted suicide is not healthcare and presents “serious moral hazards to consultants”

    BMA consultants have voted in favour of a motion stating that assisted suicide is not healthcare and presents “serious moral hazards to consultants”.

    SPUC News
    March 13, 2025
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