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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.
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Should doctors be involved in assisted suicide? Some voices are questioning whether doctors should be involved at all.
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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.
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Pope Francis has spoken out against the “pathological individualism” of abortion.
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The Rotunda Hospital in Dublin is the oldest continuously operating maternity hospital in the world. Over 900,000 babies have been delivered at the Rotunda since its founding in 1745. In an interview with The Irish Times, Master of the Rotunda Professor Sean Daly said that the Republic of Ireland should…
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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…
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Join us in petitioning the Prime Minister to fund the urgent staffing needs of our world class hospices. Palliative care has suffered in countries where assisted suicide has been legalised.
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President Donald Trump has reinstated the Mexico City Policy prohibiting abortion funding overseas and issued pardons to pro-life activists who were convicted during the Biden administration. Within days of his inauguration in Washington D.C., President Trump issued pro-life presidential orders, including the reinstatement of the Mexico City Policy that prohibits…
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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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A new poll has found that just 9% of young Americans believe that abortion up to birth should be permitted for any reason. Commenting on the poll, SPUC said: “It’s clear that young adults reject abortion extremism, which might have had a role in swaying the vote away from the…
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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…