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Kim Leadbeater, the Labour MP for Spen Valley, has announced that she will be bringing a bill on assisted suicide. Ms Leadbetter won top place in the private members ballot, so her bill has a high chance of succeeding if MPs vote in favour of it. The first reading will…
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On 24 October, SPUC held its annual Candlelight Procession through the streets of Glasgow, Scotland.
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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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Scottish First Minister John Swinney says he is worried that a proposed assisted suicide bill would apply to 16-year-olds.
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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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Did you know that BPAS, one of Britain’s biggest abortion providers, has identified that the Government’s punitive two-child Universal Credit limit is “a significant factor” in many women deciding to abort their child?
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The 2024 General Election has ushered in a big change in politics. Not only do we have a new Labour Government after 14 years of Conservative rule, but the make-up of Parliament itself has changed significantly.
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Adam Smith-Connor, an army veteran and bereaved father, has been found guilty of praying for his dead son outside an abortion facility and breaching buffer zones. “All I did was pray to God”, he said after the ruling.
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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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In their bid to select a new leader to replace Rishi Sunak, Conservative MPs have wittled down the candidates from six to two.
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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.