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“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…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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.
