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A retired chief coroner has warned that MP Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide bill could lead to potential murders not being investigated, in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), raising more concerns about a lack of safeguards. Leadbeater’s bill, if legalised, could lead to potential murders not being…
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MP Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide bill breaches the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), a top lawyer has said after reviewing the draft law, set to be voted on by MPs on 16 May.
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A Whitehall cost analysis of MP Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide bill is set to conclude today that it will save the NHS money by expediting the deaths of patients said to have six months left to live. SPUC slammed the impact assessment as “brutal arithmetic that lacks compassion and humanity”.…
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MPs appear to be swinging away from supporting Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide bill, polling shows, though many who remain undecided could still vote in favour of it later this month.
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A YouGov poll has found that over half of Britons fear that vulnerable people will be pressured into ending their lives if assisted suicide is legalised in the UK. 56 per cent of the British public fear that it is likely that people would opt for assisted suicide because they…
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A pensioner who planned assisted suicide at Dignitas after being told he had just six months to live later found out that he was not terminally ill and “would have died unnecessarily”. Peter Sefton-Williams, 72, a retired journalist, was given just six months to live after being diagnosed with Motor…
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SPUC urges Scots to lobby MSPs against “dangerous” assisted suicide bill, vote expected in two weeks
SPUC is urging Scots to speak to their MSPs to warn against the threat posed by Liam McArthur’s assisted suicide bill, with a first vote now expected on 13 May.
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Police Scotland has said that buffer zones are not enforceable when abortion facilities are closed. The statement comes after pro-abortion MSP Gillian Mackay suggested they should be enforced at all hours. Lawyers from Police Scotland and the Crown Office confirmed that Mackay’s buffer zones law cannot be enforced when abortion…
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Gillian Mackay, the MSP who created the Scottish buffer zones law, is calling for an extension of the exclusion area around the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEUH) in Glasgow to target more peaceful pro-life activists. The Glasgow hospital currently has a 200m exclusion zone outlawing all pro-life activity, including prayer, and…
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A woman is on trial in the UK for allegedly having an illegal chemical abortion at 26 weeks gestation after obtaining abortifacients from provider Marie Stopes. Nicola Packer, 41, allegedly had an illegal abortion, and later took the dead baby in a rucksack to a hospital and claimed she had…
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Disabled people are “absolutely terrified” by proposed assisted suicide laws, Paralympian Tanni Grey-Thompson told a Westminster event this week before another vote on MP Kim Leadbeater’s Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill.
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A distressed mother has contacted an agony aunt for advice after her pregnant daughter said she wants an abortion “to concentrate on her career”. The reply said that the daughter should contact an abortion provider for “impartial advice”. The mother contacted the Daily Mail’s Dear Caroline agony aunt column to…
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Today, 17th April 2025, SPUC delivered its “YES to our hospices, NO to assisted suicide” postcard petition to Prime Minister Keir Starmer at No. 10 Downing Street. The petition was signed by 9,272 people.
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Over 100,000 baby loss certificates have been issued since February 2024 to recognise the loss of unborn children who died at under 24 weeks gestation in England, says the Department of Health and Social Care. The voluntary scheme was initially open to parents who suffered the loss of an unborn…
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Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson spoke at SPUC’s Lives Worth Living event in Middlesbrough last Friday to warn against MP Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide bill that threatens disabled people. Baroness Grey-Thompson, one of the greatest Paralympians of all time, amassed 11 gold medals, four silvers and one bronze in the wheelchair…