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Leadbeater Bill
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The Select Committee hearing evidence about the Terminally Ill Adults Bill met again last week. Again, the expert witnesses drew out multiple problems with the Bill. Here are some highlights.
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Venturing down ‘enemy territory lane’ and attending the Dignity in Dying (DiD) panel fringe event at the Conservative Party Conference.
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Over the last two days, a special select committee in the House of Lords has been hearing oral evidence from expert witnesses on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill.
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The absence of disabled peers has sparked strong criticism from disability rights groups and opponents of the bill, who argue that those most affected by assisted dying laws are being side-lined from the decision-making process.
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After two days of intense debate with roughly 160 speakers, the consensus in the House of Lords is that the Leadbeater Bill cannot be passed in its current state.
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Following the tragic vote on the assisted suicide bill, many questions are still left unanswered. Questions which strike at the very heart of why Kim Leadbeater’s bill is so dangerous.
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Over 300 student doctors from across the UK have voiced their opposition to MP Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide bill, that passed its vote at Third Reading this afternoon. “We write not only as future doctors, but as the next generation of advocates for patient care and safety”, they said in…
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Westminster MPs today voted in favour of Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide bill by 314 to 291. The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) voiced its “deep disappointment” and called the decision an “abdication” of MP responsibilities.
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BREAKING: SPUC expresses deep disappointment as MPs vote to give assisted suicide bill third reading
Pro-Life group expresses deep disappointment as MPs vote to give assisted suicide bill third reading.
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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.