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Leadbeater Bill
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Labour MP Kim Leadbeater has been accused of sending a “highly misleading email to MPs” about the depth of public support for assisted suicide in relation to her proposed Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill.
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In a letter to fellow Labour parliamentarians, a group of Labour MPs have called out the Leadbeater Bill as “irredeemably flawed and not fit to become law”.
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The roll-out of MP Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide bill, if legalised, has been delayed until 2029, casting doubt about whether the draft law will ever be implemented, though there are concerns that the delay will be spun by Ms Leadbeater to win over MPs troubled by the Bill.
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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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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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BMA consultants have voted in favour of a motion stating that assisted suicide is not healthcare and presents “serious moral hazards to consultants”.
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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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Hardly a week goes by without another expert identifying a serious concern about MP Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide bill.
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The chair of the government’s national suicide prevention strategy advisory group has warned against legalising assisted suicide.
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His message to Scots comes as Scotland considers similar legislation: “I believe my own experience is a cautionary tale of how well-intended laws go very wrong.”
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The repercussions of a change in the law could impact three groups of people in ways that are not being widely considered.
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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
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SPUC has warned that MP Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide bill could be expanded within just five years, and veterans suffering from PTSD could be threatened, as has already happened in Canada.