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Leadbeater Bill
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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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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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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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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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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…
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A leading UK bioethics centre has slammed a recent Whitehall impact assessment of assisted suicide, calling it a “truly sinister document…that sets no value on protecting life”. A Whitehall cost analysis of MP Kim Leadbeater’s draft assisted suicide bill recently concluded that it would save the NHS money by expediting…
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Another MP has revealed that he is likely to vote against Kim Leadbeater’s Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill because of ongoing concerns about inadequate palliative care and vulnerable people feeling pressured to take their lives.
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The Secretary of State for Justice has warned that MP Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide bill is being rushed through Parliament without adequate scrutiny.
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The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales has slammed MP Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide bill as “wrong in principle as well as being fundamentally flawed”.