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Assisted Dying
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The Committee stage of Kim Leadbeater’s Terminally Ill (Adults) End of Life bill has now ended.
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The Health Secretary has said that he will vote against Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide bill after voicing concerns about coercion and funding “implications” for the NHS and palliative care.
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Catholic Bishops’ Conference warns that assisted suicide will turn NHS into “national death service”
The pastoral letter, which will be read out in parishes in the Westminster archdiocese this weekend, urges Catholics to contact their respective MPs to oppose Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide bill for England and Wales.
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Fr Hugh MacKenzie remains deeply concerned about the impact of this bill on his ministry to dying people.
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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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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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According to Japanese folklore, elderly relatives were removed to a mountain or one of Japan’s haunted forests and left to die, a practice called “ubasute”, or granny dumping. However widespread this prevaricating form of euthanasia really was, it appears that the UK might soon introduce a similar p