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  • Assisted suicide committee votes to remove High Court judge safeguard

    Assisted suicide committee votes to remove High Court judge safeguard

    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.

    SPUC News
    March 13, 2025
  • Assisted suicide committee rejects amendment protecting people with Down’s syndrome, MP tries to censor backlash

    Assisted suicide committee rejects amendment protecting people with Down’s syndrome, MP tries to censor backlash

    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.

    SPUC News
    March 6, 2025
  • Assisted suicide “may hamper suicide prevention work” in UK, warns government adviser

    Assisted suicide “may hamper suicide prevention work” in UK, warns government adviser

    The chair of the government’s national suicide prevention strategy advisory group has warned against legalising assisted suicide.

    SPUC News
    February 26, 2025
  • Disabled Canadian issues “terrifying” warning about assisted suicide to Scots

    Disabled Canadian issues “terrifying” warning about assisted suicide to Scots

    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.”

    SPUC News
    February 25, 2025
  • Over a hundred MPs turn against assisted suicide bill after High Court “safeguard” rule ditched, now deemed a “ruse”

    Over a hundred MPs turn against assisted suicide bill after High Court “safeguard” rule ditched, now deemed a “ruse”

    The change comes after Ms Leadbeater scrapped the requirement to have a High Court judge approve assisted suicide cases.

    SPUC News
    February 13, 2025
  • Disability expert slams “nonsensical” assisted suicide bill and its lack of safeguards for disabled people

    Disability expert slams “nonsensical” assisted suicide bill and its lack of safeguards for disabled people

    Dr Griffiths was one of the few disability experts to appear before the ongoing committee hearing into Labour MP Kim Leadbeater’s Bill.

    SPUC News
    February 12, 2025
  • Assisted suicides to be signed off by “experts” instead of High Court judges, says Bill sponsor in shameless U-turn

    Assisted suicides to be signed off by “experts” instead of High Court judges, says Bill sponsor in shameless U-turn

    Kim Leadbeater MP has proposed that a panel of “experts” should sign off on assisted suicides instead of High Court judges, having previously stated that judges would safeguard against coercion.

    SPUC News
    February 11, 2025
  • Assisted suicide: An American horror story comes to the UK

    Assisted suicide: An American horror story comes to the UK

    A North American horror story has come to the UK, which may soon legalize assisted suicide. Two U.S. doctors suggested to a London committee of MPs that being a “burden” could be enough reason to die, and patient “autonomy” should be respected. Members of the UK Parliament are currently hearing…

    Daniel Frampton
    January 31, 2025
  • Six months to live – a death sentence, not a safeguard

    Six months to live – a death sentence, not a safeguard

    “How long have I got?” is the question doctors will be asked at some point by their terminally ill and dying patients. This is going to become a much more loaded question if we legalise assisted suicide.  One of the so-called “safeguards” in Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide bill currently before…

    SPUC News
    January 24, 2025
  • Assisted suicide: Terminally ill patients live far longer than expected, government data shows

    Assisted suicide: Terminally ill patients live far longer than expected, government data shows

    One in five terminally ill patients given six months to live are still alive three years later, government data reveals. SPUC has stated that this “revelatory data” shows that Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide bill is “fundamentally flawed”. Freedom of information requests have revealed that life expectancy prognoses for the terminally…

    SPUC News
    January 23, 2025
  • Concerns raised after “extraordinary” start to assisted suicide bill committee

    Concerns raised after “extraordinary” start to assisted suicide bill committee

    Concerns have been raised about the scrutiny process of the assisted suicide bill going through Parliament, as the committee tasked with examining it got off to a controversial start, yesterday.

    SPUC News
    January 22, 2025
  • MPs voting for assisted suicide would be “foolish” to ignore palliative care concerns, says health committee chair

    MPs voting for assisted suicide would be “foolish” to ignore palliative care concerns, says health committee chair

    Liberal Democrats MP Layla Moran, the chair of the Health and Social Care Committee, says it would be “foolish” to ignore the concerns of palliative care doctors about assisted suicide, though she still supports Kim Leadbeater’s draft bill. Moran said it would be “foolish” to ignore the warnings of palliative…

    SPUC News
    January 7, 2025
  • Pope Francis calls out abortion and assisted suicide in first 2025 homily

    Pope Francis calls out abortion and assisted suicide in first 2025 homily

    Pope Francis called on people around the world to reject abortion and assisted suicide in his New Year message at the Vatican. At New Year’s Day Mass in St Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican, Pope Francis called on all people to “respect the dignity of human life from conception to…

    SPUC News
    January 3, 2025
  • MPs may withdraw support from assisted suicide bill over coercion concerns

    MPs may withdraw support from assisted suicide bill over coercion concerns

    At least 30 MPs who voted for Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide bill are prepared to withdraw their support for the proposed law because they are concerned about coercion and the role of doctors in suggesting assisted suicide to patients. After a “disappointing” first vote in favour of the Leadbeater Bill,…

    SPUC News
    December 31, 2024
  • Over 15,000 assisted suicides in Canada in 2023, a “clear warning” to UK

    Over 15,000 assisted suicides in Canada in 2023, a “clear warning” to UK

    State-sanctioned assisted suicides in Canada reached a record high, with over 15,000 such deaths recorded in 2023. SPUC says that Canada offers a “clear warning” of where the UK is heading if the Leadbeater Bill, which passed a first vote last month, is approved. 15,343 people were killed by Medical…

    SPUC News
    December 13, 2024
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