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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,…
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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…
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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.…
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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”,…
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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…
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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”.
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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.
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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…
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BMA consultants have voted in favour of a motion stating that assisted suicide is not healthcare and presents “serious moral hazards to consultants”.
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The MP committee scrutinising Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide bill has voted to scrap the High Court judge safeguard that would have required a higher level of judicial sign-off.
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MP Kit Malthouse has attempted to censor the backlash after an assisted suicide committee rejected an amendment that would have stopped doctors from suggesting suicide to people with Down’s syndrome.
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The chair of the government’s national suicide prevention strategy advisory group has warned against legalising assisted suicide.
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His message to Scots comes as Scotland considers similar legislation: “I believe my own experience is a cautionary tale of how well-intended laws go very wrong.”
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The change comes after Ms Leadbeater scrapped the requirement to have a High Court judge approve assisted suicide cases.
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Dr Griffiths was one of the few disability experts to appear before the ongoing committee hearing into Labour MP Kim Leadbeater’s Bill.
