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Kim Leadbeater MP
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Kim Leadbeater MP has proclaimed that her assisted dying bill will have “the world’s strongest safeguards”. Yet as the weeks go by, the news coming out of the Committee scrutinising this bill doesn’t match Ms Leadbeater’s claim. Those of us who are worried that legalising assisted suicide will send us…
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MPs reviewing the Leadbeater Bill at Committee stage have voted against opt-outs for hospices that do not want to provide assisted suicide. MP Kim Leadbeater’s Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill for England and Wales proposes to legalise assisted suicide for terminally ill adults given six months to live.…
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MP Kim Leadbeater has admitted for the first time that the eligibility criteria of her proposed assisted suicide bill could be expanded in the future. “That could happen”, she confessed on LBC on 21 March. Challenged by LBC’s Natasha Clark on whether the proposed law would create a “slippery slope”,…
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Over 250 GPs have signed a letter to The Times condemning their Royal College’s decision to adopt a neutral position on assisted suicide as “grossly misrepresentative of GPs’ attitudes to assisted dying”.
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Labour MP Naz Shah was forced to leave fellow MP Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide committee yesterday because her hearing aids ran out of charge after 15 hours of use. Shaz had raised her disability needs “repeatedly” before.
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The MP committee scrutinising Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide bill has voted to scrap the High Court judge safeguard that would have required a higher level of judicial sign-off.
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The Committee stage of Kim Leadbeater’s deadly assisted suicide bill is proving to be utterly shambolic.
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The change comes after Ms Leadbeater scrapped the requirement to have a High Court judge approve assisted suicide cases.
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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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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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The Health Secretary, Wes Streeting, has warned that assisted suicide, if it is legalised, would have “resource implications” for other national health services.