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assisted suicide
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Labour’s Dame Siobhain McDonagh has warned that legalising assisted suicide could “break the NHS”. Her comments come ahead of a crucial House of Commons vote on MP Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide bill on Friday, 20 June.
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The House of Commons has been asked to delay a vote on MP Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide bill in an intervention by over 50 Labour MPs stating: “The private member’s bill process has shown itself to be a woefully inadequate vehicle for the introduction of such a foundational change to…
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Win or lose the vote on assisted suicide – and we are on a knife edge – the opposition to Kim Leadbeater’s bill is growing.
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Almost 350 clinicians working in palliative care signed a letter to Heath Secretary Wes Streeting urging him not to withdraw funding from hospices that refuse to provide assisted suicide. MP Kim Leadbeater’s Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill is being debated today in the House of Commons at Third…
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Amid a growing chorus of concern over the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, on Friday 20 June, the House of Commons is set to decide whether assisted suicide will be legalised in England and Wales. Once the Bill has had its Third Reading next Friday, it will move…
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Conservative MP Greg Stafford seeks to ban the Sacro Pod, the invention of Philip Nitschke, also known as “Dr Death”.
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They said it could not support the Bill as its members would be included in the assisted suicide process.
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The letter slammed Leadbeater’s Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill as a “real threat to both patients and the medical workforce”.
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The woman, known as Amy, called a suicide hotline because she was suffering from suicidal thoughts.
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More Labour MPs have signalled that they intend to vote against Leadbeater’s Bill.
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If the next act in this political theatre is as chaotic as the debate on 16 May, it is likely to generate more heat than light.
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Speaking to French pilgrims at the Vatican on 4 June, Pope Leo XIV appeared to call out France’s National Assembly’s vote to legalise assisted suicide.
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Christians around the UK will come together in prayer next week ahead of a crucial vote on MP Kim Leadbeater’s Bill.
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An assisted suicide advocate has killed himself following his arrest for the alleged murder of a woman killed in the Sarco Pod in Switzerland.
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A leading palliative care doctor has slammed MP Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide bill as “deeply dangerous” ahead of a decisive vote in Westminster later this month. Dr Amy Proffitt is a palliative care expert and vocal critic of Leadbeater’s Terminally Ill Adults (End Of Life) Bill, set to be debated…