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The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has criticised the UK’s IVF industry for pushing non-essential and unproven add-ons to patients undergoing fertility treatment. Women undergoing in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) in the UK have been sold unproven add-ons, HFEA said this week, after a survey of 1,500 patients found that 73%…
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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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Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (BCP) council spent nearly £150,000 prosecuting a man and woman who allegedly participated in pro-life activity in a buffer zone in its local authority. BCP council spent £93,000 taking Adam Smith-Connor to court last October after he prayed in silence for his dead son within a…