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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…
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Senedd members have rejected a non-binding motion supporting an assisted suicide law. SPUC has called the result a “significant” victory for vulnerable people who would be targeted by such a law.
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Health Secretary Wes Streeting says he will vote against fellow Labour MP Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide bill because he is concerned about the state of palliative care in the UK.
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Why do people support a change in the law on assisted suicide? According to Professor David Albert Jones, director of the Anscombe Centre for Bioethics in Oxford, the most common reasons are; avoiding a bad death involving pain, allowing choice, and to provide safeguards for something which is already happening.
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Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer “spared” a doctor who was arrested for assisting in the death of a man in 2009.
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Palliative care doctors on the frontline of end-of-life medicine in the UK are overwhelmingly against Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide bill that will be voted on at the end of November, despite safety and ethical concerns.
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Do not give doctors the right “to kill you”, Alex Schadenberg warned delegates at SPUC’s one-day conference in London, where he shared numerous horror stories about assisted suicide in Canada.
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The first vote on MP Kim Leadbeater’s proposed assisted suicide bill will take place on 29 November.
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A murder investigation has been opened after a young woman was allegedly euthanised by a doctor and two nurses using a pillow following a botched attempt at palliative care.
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MPs will vote on an assisted suicide bill for England and Wales for the first time in nine years. SPUC has called on Parliament to reject the proposed law, which “poses an unacceptable mortal threat to vulnerable citizens.
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SPUC’s one-day conference in London on Saturday was a resounding success after delegates heard moving testimonies from guest speakers and SPUC staff about abortion’s life-denying ethic. “This is the moral issue of our age”, said SPUC CEO John Deighan.
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A US woman has become the first person to be killed by the Sarco Pod, an invention of the infamous Dr Death, leading to arrests in Switzerland.
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Assisted suicide will save the Canadian health care system up to $136.8 million a year, claims a study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. SPUC has slammed the suggestion as “heartless utilitarianism” that must be rejected.
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A so-called “citizens’ jury” that ruled in favour of an assisted suicide and euthanasia law for the UK “fails the impartiality test”, the campaign group Care Not Killing has warned.
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An elderly British couple has signed up for Dr Death’s suicide pod in Switzerland because they no longer trust the NHS to take care of them in their infirmity.
